Space Exploration

Scorching Heat May Help Mercury Manufacture Ice We all think of Mercury as a tremendously hot world, which it is, being the closest to the sun. However, it also has a surprising amount of ice for such a toasty little planet. Scientists have long puzzled over how all that ice …

ExoMars Mission Pushed Back to 2022 Due to COVID-19 Delays The ExoMars program, a joint effort between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia’s Roscosmos, has had its fair share of setbacks. One of the primary components of its first mission failed to deploy on Mars, and now the second …

Mercury’s Extreme Daytime Heat May Help It Make Its Polar Ice In 2011, NASA’s MESSENGER orbiter detected signals typical of glacial ice near the poles on Mercury. The ice was dingy and lurked in permanent shadows in numerous polar craters. According to new research led by Georgia Institute of Technology …

Astronomers Spot Ancient Black Hole Beaming Radiation Toward Earth The universe is crawling with black holes — we’ve even taken a picture of one. Despite that, these extreme stellar objects never stop surprising astronomers. A team from the University of Insubria in Italy spotted a supermassive black hole beaming a …

  The Mars of today is an arid and (presumably) lifeless world. That was not always the case, though. Evidence from Curiosity and other missions proves Mars once had an atmosphere and liquid water, but then its magnetic field vanished. The InSight lander has now shown there’s still more magnetic …

Has Turbulent Past A brand-new research study by Curtin University scientists has actually clarified the very early days of Vesta, the 2nd biggest planet of the major belt and also the 4th such challenge be found.< a href=”http://cdn.sci-news.com/images/enlarge7/image_8196e-Vesta.jpg”> As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft removes for its following location, this mosaic manufactures …

May Be Biological in Origin, Astrobiologists Say NASA’s Curiosity wanderer just recently uncovered different courses of raw material in the Martian debris. One fascinating team of spotted natural substances were thiophenes, which commonly take place in the world in kerogen, coal, petroleum, stromatolites, microfossils and also unusually sufficient, in white …

Possible Worlds and the Future of Our Own Cosmos: Possible Worlds debuts March 9th on National Geographic. The new 13-episode television series was created by Ann Druyan, who also co-created the original Cosmos with her late husband Carl Sagan. It covers the beginnings of the universe and life on Earth, …

Curiosity Captures Incredible It’s hard to obtain a car-sized robotic to an additional world, so NASA is maximizing the extremely reputable Curiosity wanderer. The future generation Perseverance vagabond (formerly understood just as Mars 2020) will certainly get on its method to the red world quickly, however Curiosity is still establishing …

The Unsung Heroes of Science and Exploration With the barrage of rapid-fire news headlines every single day, it’s easy to forget we’re all made of star stuff. 2014’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, the reboot of 1980’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage funded and supported in large part by Seth MacFarlane, became …