SPACE: Dark Streaks on Mars Explained
Evidence of landslides on Mars may also raise the prospects that the Red Planet was once hospitable to life. A new study, published Feb. 3 in the journal Science Advances, … Read more
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ASTRONOMY: Ancient Origin of “The Seven Sisters?”
People both modern and ancient have long known of the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, a small collection of stars in the constellation Taurus. But this famous assembly could point the … Read more
What Will Perseverance Do Inside Jezero Crater?
One of the most exciting aspects of successful landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars is the fact that the laboratory-on-wheels will start the first leg in a long-awaited sample-return … Read more
Meet Faffarout – The Farthest Object in the Solar System (That We Know About)
Astronomers have identified the most distant known object in our solar system — a dwarf planet nicknamed Farfarout that orbits far beyond Pluto. This remote mini-planet swings so far away … Read more
SPACE: Mars is a Busy Place This Month
It’s a busy February for Mars, with three probes from three separate countries arriving at the Red Planet over the course of just nine days. But this Martian party didn’t … Read more
SPACE: Turns Out Dark Matter is Way Lighter Than We Thought…
Scientists are finally figuring out how much dark matter — the almost imperceptible material said to tug on everything, yet emit no light — really weighs. The new estimate helps … Read more
space: A New NASA Mars Rover Will Arrive on the Red Planet in February
The long deep-space journey of NASA’s next Mars rover is nearly over. The car-size Perseverance rover, which launched on July 30 of last year, is scheduled to land inside the … Read more
SPACE: Titan’s Largest sea is Really Deep, Too
NASA’s epic Cassini mission at Saturn is still generating valuable scientific data more than three years after its demise. Data from one of the spacecraft’s last flybys of Titan, a … Read more
You Had Me At “Black Hole Power Sucking Aliens”
Aliens could be sucking power from black holes — and that could be how we’d spot the extraterrestrials, scientists say. This energy-harvesting technology could leave traces just outside a spinning … Read more
SPACE: Mars is Wobbly. Astronomers Don’t Know Why
The Red Planet is wiggling and wobbling as it spins, research in the journal Geophysical Research Letters confirms, and astronomers have no idea why. Like a toy top that teeters … Read more