Ahead of the rotorcraft landing on Titan, SMU chemists will be recreating the conditions on Titan in multiple glass cylinders, each the size of a needle top, so they can learn about what kind of chemical structures could form on the surface of Titan
The massive quantities of gold, iron and nickel contained in this asteroid are mind-blowing. Whether it was the Big Bang, Midas or God himself, we don't really need to unlock the mystery of the origins of gold when we've already identified an asteroid worth $700 quintillion in precious heavy metals.
In 2018, a mystery in the field of extragalactic astrophysics has been revealed and it woke up the curious mind. The study was published in the journal Nature and it has since then paved the way for more studies about it to be conducted.
North Korea is back at it. The rogue state conducted its 1st missile look at in eighteen months early Saturday morning (May 4), launching a short-range vehicle east into the Pacific.
NASA -- Fifty years after the Apollo Program ended, NASA is once again planning to set foot on the moon and they target to make it happen by 2024. They said this is to provide grounding on the testing of the new generation of space crafts that have since been developed and improved ahead of its mission to Mars.
How helpful can amateur astronomy be? What is amazing about amateur astronomy is the fact that it encourages people to get out and look up. Not only does it make them discover things in the sky, but it also fosters a kind of appreciation of what's above us and all the beauty that it comes with. Amateur astronomy, no matter how simple the ways may be, it helps advance science in ways that may be difficult for professional astronomers.
Scientists say it could be the remnants of a 4-billion-year-old asteroid. Earth's moon is hiding a massive secret on its storied dark side. Deep below the South Pole-Aitken basin of the moon, which is the largest preserved impact crater ever found in the solar system, scientists have detected a massive anomaly of heavy metal lodged in the mantle that is apparently altering the moon's gravitational field.