One Small Grain of Moon Dust, One Giant Leap for Lunar Studies

SPACE 02.07.2020 10:40 AM

Back in 1972, NASA sent their last team of astronauts to the Moon in the Apollo 17 mission. These astronauts brought some of the Moon back to Earth so scientists could continue to study lunar soil in their labs. Since we haven't returned to the Moon in almost 50 years, every lunar sample is precious.

Kepler Discovers a White and Brown Dwarf Star Binary Pair That Gives off a Rare Outburst Event

01.31.2020 08:01 AM

Kepler detected the dwarf nova system called KSN: BS-C11a, that is made up of a white dwarf and brown dwarf which is significantly smaller than the white dwarf.The regular orbit of the brown dwarf around the larger white one is the distance from Earth to the Moon. A total of 83 minutes and a distance of 400,000 kilometers is how close they are.

Unified Binary Stars Identified as the Bizarre Objects Seen Near the Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

01.31.2020 07:54 AM

One object in the middle of the milky way galaxy (MWG) perplexed astronomers for a quite some time. It is thought to be a hydrogen gas cloud on a collision course with a black hole.

Giant Comet Struck the Earth Seeding Microbes That Started Earth-Based Life

01.30.2020 07:39 AM

A new genesis of life throughout the cosmos is now proposed, and it postulates that life was caused by a near collision of a proto-earth, with a comet. This giant comet apparently carried away remnants of microbes that hitched and seeded a part of the cosmos.

The Dark Energy Survey Will Find Answers to an Expanding Universe or Is It Compressing to Its Former Singularity to End All Existence

01.30.2020 07:38 AM

Finding dark matter in the universe is like finding a needle in a haystack of cosmic proportions. The tool of choice is the Dark Energy Camera, with 570-mega pixels and installed in the 4-meter Victor M. Blanco telescope that is located in the Andes Mountains in Chile.

NASA Explores Future Moon and Mars Homes Made of Fungi

01.29.2020 08:04 AM

Landing on Mars is one thing, but having a safe habitat and being able to stay on the red planet is another one altogether.

Graviton Waves Detected From the Collision of Dual Neutron Stars Created Echoes That Stymied the Theory of Relativity

01.29.2020 08:00 AM

Out in the cosmos, the collision of two neutron stars caused enough ruckus to be heard in known space. These gravitons scattered and sent a graviton wave that was detected on earth way back in 2017. There is speculation that this event is a black hole and it just made the theory of relativity a bit out of whack.

Did You Know? Dark Matter Is Causing the Gamma Radiation Plaguing the Universe

01.28.2020 11:25 AM

A particular patch of the universe that glows brighter where there are dense patches - this is a stark contrast to areas with sparse patches of matter.

Astronomers Discover Bizarre Objects In Our Galaxy

01.27.2020 20:20 PM

Astronomers from UCLA's Galactic Center Orbits Initiative have discovered a new class of bizarre objects at the center of our galaxy.

Kelt-6b Is an Exoplanet Discovered Using KELT Telescopes That Prove Powerful Telescopes Are Not Needed in the Search for Exoplanets

01.27.2020 08:30 AM

One of the most unlikely exoplanets discoveries were a surprise when simple terrestrial telescopes spotted a hot-Saturn exoplanet in passing as pair star. Responsible for finding it is Karen Collins, one of a group in the University of Louisville.

Christina Koch, Jessica Meir Accomplished the Third All-Female Spacewalk

01.22.2020 07:34 AM

Koch and Meir performed a third successful spacewalk to repair old batteries on the ISS. Early this week, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir once again made history as they accomplished their third spacewalk to replace the aging batteries at the International Space Station.

Astrophysicists Believe Man Will Soon Migrate to A Flora and Fauna-Filled Exoplanet

01.22.2020 07:32 AM

When humanity makes the next mass exodus to an alien world, Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) speculate that red dwarf systems may house worlds that have evolved flora and fauna. This might be similar to the setting in Avatar, but minus the big-blue natives though.

Is 1.5 Billion Years the Lifespan of A Galaxy? Scientists Observe Death of Massive Galaxies After Core Cool Down

01.21.2020 07:18 AM

In the cosmos, nothing lasts forever, and every celestial construct fashioned from the gases and matter of early big bang is not eternal. Look across the universe, and there are massive galaxies, living bodies of plasma giving birth to planets and stars.

Engineers from the European Space Agency Solves the Huygens Probe Mistery

01.20.2020 20:21 PM

For years, engineers are baffled by the landing of the Huygens Probe in Saturn's moon Titan but now, they have enough data to find out why and how it happened.

Accidentally Discovered "Flux" Might Be the Key To The Asteroid-like Composition of the Earth's Crust

01.20.2020 07:18 AM

Nothing is more mysterious than the origin of our earth, the more is learned to settle the question, and it raises the unknown. Earth scientists at MIT are perplexed by a new find, that might rewrite the earth's origin.