NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted a dust devil on Mars recently. Such an intriguing weather phenomenon takes place on our planet, too, and could help us better understand the Martian climate. Perseverance’s cameras captured the occurrence, and the footage is now ...
NASA’s upcoming mission will explore Saturn’s moon for any signs of life. The space agency will send a sample-return spacecraft, dubbed Dragonfly, to Titan by 2027. The lander will use liquid methane harvested from Saturn’s moon as fuel, and it ...
A team of researchers succeeded in shedding light on how galaxy formation is possible. Apparently, there’s an ancient light that fuels the entire process. The new paper also aims to offer tests for galaxy formation models to understand better the ...
A recent study discusses how more planets could produce atmospheres full of water and keep them, too. Such insights could help our search for other habitable worlds, similar to Earth. Scientists based their work on what they know about Earth ...
A long-standing theory claims a supermassive black hole is capable of lots of things, including wandering through space. A black hole alone is scary enough, but imagine one in motion. How is this possible? Recently, astronomers have spotted a supermassive ...
Considered Earth’s oldest impact crater, the 62-mile (100-kilometre) wide Maniitsoq structure is more complicated than previously thought. New research is now unveiling the crater’s true origin. The structure is approximately 3 billion years old and dates back to the Archean ...
Recently, Russia and China announced their plans to launch a lunar space station. As unexpected as it might be, Moscow really wants to revive the glory of its space pioneering days of the Soviet period. As for Beijing, things are ...
A recent discovery of a meteorite rock found in the desert sands of Algeria intrigues researchers. Apparently, the lost piece could be a part of a baby planet that didn’t survive. As per researchers’ analysis, the meteorite, dubbed Erg Chech ...
Scientists have long believed that space could help form storm-like conditions above our planet, but now they have a photo of what researchers called a plasma space hurricane. The authors of a new paper recently posted in Nature Communications (https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uor-sho030221.php) ...
NASA’s Mars rover just made its first steps on the dusty Martian ground! Perseverance performed a test drive of 21 feet (6,4 meters), and new data is now available. The rover ventured away from its landing position after landing there ...
The most catastrophic event in our planet’s history in terms of biomes was the mass extinction that followed an enormous asteroid impact. It is the same asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. However, the disappearance of the dinosaurs let mammals ...
As new research emerges, we learn that asteroids are more than meets the eye. An intriguing discovery left scientists in awe, unveiling water and organic matter on an asteroid sample. This is the first time when organic materials have been ...
Solar particles are directly released from the Sun at high speeds during storms in its outer atmosphere. The particles are also highly charged, and if they could reach our planet’s atmosphere, they can produce severe damage. Researchers have now succeeded ...
Pollen grains from flowering plants naturally fly, often travelling hundreds of kilometres on the wind. It appears that the climate crisis has boosted that travel, kickstarting the allergy season in various areas of the world, thus making them last longer ...
There are still many mysteries that Milky Way challenges us to discover and solve. One of them includes some odd yet fascinating stellar streams, some river-like structures made up of stars. These cosmic features puzzle astronomers’ work, especially when it ...
ESA’s recent efforts of studying lunar caves prove to be more efficient than previously thought. The space agency has recently begun the third series of research exploring the subterranean lunar world more in-depth. From five initial concepts of previous Sysnova ...
Even if the Parker Solar Probe has begun its journey to the Sun recently, it has already offered a great deal of data. Thanks to one of the probe’s cameras, the Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, or WISPR, we ...
When the Perseverance rover safely landed on Mars, inside the Jezero Crater, it marked the symbolic safe landing of nearly eleven million names onboard one week ago. The names were collected during NASA’s “Send your Name to Mars” campaign, which ...
Australia just got closer to a major space goal thanks to its recent development. A team of researchers has successfully tested a new propulsion system that could allow high-speed flight and space launch sessions. The rotating detonation engine, RDE, represents ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured a new high-definition panoramic view of Mars’ Jezero Crater. The shot is fantastic, and it shows a great deal of Martian ground. Thanks to the rover’s Mastcam-Z, a dual-camera system equipped with an advanced zoom feature, ...
Neutron stars and black holes might be one of the deadliest squads we’ve ever seen. Small black holes could exist in the core of neutron stars with only one mission: devour the host. Astronomers have chosen recently a different approach, ...
Good news from Mars! NASA just received the first report from the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, so we know what’s really happening up there. According to the report, everything is operating as expected, meaning both the helicopter and its base station ...
NASA’s Perseverance has finally landed on the Red Planet! The news came yesterday as the rover streaked gloriously through the orange Martian atmosphere and touched the planet’s ground. That was just the first step and the riskiest one yet in ...
Planet 9 has stirred quite the buzz back in 2016. Astronomers discovered it just at the far edges of our solar system, beyond Neptune. Recently, researchers have found no proof of trans-Neptunian cosmic feature clustering as part of an attempt ...
The Moon’s craters could be more important than we previously believed, especially when the biggest crater out there has so many secrets. According to a recent study, the crater covering around a quarter of our old planetary friend’s surface can ...