Saturday, 27 September 2025

How the Hubble Telescope opened a new window on the cosmos

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 232 views | 0 comments

The Hubble Space Telescope's journey to the sky was a bumpy one, but it was well worth the effort, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Source: www.newscientist.com

NASA’s Lucy mission is launching to study asteroids near Jupiter

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 209 views | 0 comments

A NASA spacecraft called Lucy is about to blast off to study the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter, which are pristine relics from the early solar system

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Venus’s surface may have never been cool enough for oceans or life

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 191 views | 0 comments

The surface of Venus may have remained extremely hot since its formation, meaning that water in the atmosphere never had a chance to fall to the surface

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Jupiter-like planet survived the death of its star without harm

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 238 views | 0 comments

Astronomers have spotted a Jupiter-like planet in its original orbit around a white dwarf for the first time

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Something strange is sending radio waves from the centre of the galaxy

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 228 views | 0 comments

A source of radio waves, nicknamed "Andy's object", coming from the direction of the centre of the galaxy has left astronomers puzzled

Source: www.newscientist.com

Rocks gathered by Chang'e 5 rover show magma once spewed from the moon

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 215 views | 0 comments

Lunar samples brought back to Earth by the Chang’e 5 spacecraft seem to be less than 2 billion years old, meaning the moon had volcanic activity more recently than researchers expected

Source: www.newscientist.com

Ancient Mars lake had fast-moving floods that carried huge boulders

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 229 views | 0 comments

Mars used to have flowing water, which filled Jezero crater with an enormous lake. Images of cliff faces taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover show the lake used to flood 3.7 billion years ago

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Source: www.newscientist.com

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has found two odd pairs of asteroids

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 209 views | 0 comments

The New Horizons spacecraft has found two pairs of unusually close asteroids in a region of the solar system called the Kuiper belt

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Source: www.newscientist.com

UAE will send spacecraft to visit Venus and land on an asteroid

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 217 views | 0 comments

The United Arab Emirates is planning to land on an asteroid in 2033, after a quick visit to Venus

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Weird white dwarf that is colder than it should be defies explanation

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 207 views | 0 comments

A white dwarf about 90 light years from Earth is so cool and dim it should be about 10 billion years old – but the area it lies in is thought to contain only much younger stars

Source: www.newscientist.com

Blue Origin is taking Star Trek’s William Shatner to space for real

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 198 views | 0 comments

The actor William Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek, will fly aboard a Blue Origin rocket on 12 October

Source: www.newscientist.com

Our cosmic neighbourhood has so many more secrets for us to reveal

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 217 views | 0 comments

An unusual meteorite seems to help explain why the planets are in their odd present positions, but plenty of other mysteries remain about our solar system

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Source: www.newscientist.com

How to use the Cassiopeia constellation to spot Andromeda and Pegasus

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 213 views | 0 comments

With its bright stars and distinctive shape, Cassiopeia is the perfect jumping-off point for exploring the night sky, says Abigail Beall

Source: www.newscientist.com

Other planets in our solar system can masquerade as Earth from afar

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 212 views | 0 comments

If aliens took a picture of our solar system from afar, they might find that 6 of the other 7 planets in our solar system sometimes appear exactly the same as Earth in a phenomenon called planet confusion

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Lunar craters could reveal past collisions with ancient black holes

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 201 views | 0 comments

Black holes born in the big bang could be the dark matter physicists have sought for decades – if they exist. Now there's an audacious plan to find the scars they would have left as they punched through the moon

Source: www.newscientist.com

The deepest canyons on Mars were rapidly formed by devastating floods

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 204 views | 0 comments

While most riverbeds on Earth are formed via slow erosion by running water, many of Mars’s deepest canyons appear to have been carved by sudden, catastrophic floods

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Life on Venus may have only been possible for its first billion years

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 255 views | 0 comments

Previous research suggested Venus may have been habitable for 2 to 3 billion years, but that didn’t take into account the lack of plate tectonics, which affects CO2 levels and narrows the window for life on Venus

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Exoplanet in a triple star system may orbit all three at once

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 241 views | 0 comments

Astronomers have spotted hints of a planet that orbits a distant system of three stars – if confirmed, it will be the first time such a world has been found

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Some hot exoplanets may develop strange sets of four colossal storms

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 201 views | 0 comments

The hottest worlds in the universe may develop enormous, fast-moving storms in strange sets of four that violently stir up their planets’ atmospheres

Source: www.newscientist.com

Spacecraft could detect signs of life on Saturn's moon Enceladus

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 252 views | 0 comments

Plumes of water shot into space by Enceladus, the icy moon of Saturn, may contain molecular signs of alien life, and a spacecraft could collect them from orbit

Source: www.newscientist.com

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