In our endless quest to understand the universe and our place within it, precious little blips in the data can signal a whole new world. The light of the star could betray the presence of filled planets in the layer – and now astronomers have taken the first steps towards …
Read More »
TOKYO (AP) – Japan’s space agency officials said Tuesday they found more than the expected amount of soil and gases inside a small capsule that the country’s Haibusa 2 spacecraft brought back from a distant planet earlier this month, a mission it hailed as a landmark in the planets. . …
Read More »
It is comforting to imagine that trained in the universe on both space- and earth-based telescopes, we could find asteroids of any dangerous size a mile away on our way, which would have plenty of time to color them white or explode them. . But every asteroid we see coming …
Read More »
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – Huge, aging cables supporting one of the world’s largest single-dish radio telescopes are slowly making their way to the U.S. Resolving in the region, the observatory known for its role in the discovery of astronomy is on the verge of collapse. . The Territorial …
Read More »
We know that Mars was once wetter than it is now, but questions about when water formed and evaporated are more difficult to answer. Now a new study suggests that there was water on the Red Planet about 4.4 billion years ago, much earlier than previously thought. It is based …
Read More »