Astronomers have made detailed observations of a very exciting exoplanet, detecting a rugged surface temperature in the region of 200,200 degrees Celsius (792 ફેર degrees Fahrenheit). That temperature – measured by the European Space Agency’s characteristic exoplanet satellite (or CHOPS) – is enough to melt all rocks and metals, and …
Read More »China says Mars probe frozen; No word on reusable spacecraft
BEIJING (AP) – China’s Mars probe Tianwen-1, which exploded in space in July, is now more than 15 million kilometers (9 million miles) on its way from Earth to the Red Planet, the National Space Administration said Saturday. The administration said the TNV-1 is in a stable position, having completed …
Read More »NASA’s next Mars rover is the most powerful and smartest yet
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) – With eight successful landings on Mars, NASA is upping the ante with its new scout vehicle. The Perseverance spacecraft, scheduled for launch this week, is NASA’s largest and smartest Martian rover to date. It has the latest landing technology, plus most cameras and microphones ever …
Read More »Fascinating animation reveals that our entire solar system doesn’t exactly orbit the sun
It is common knowledge that the Sun is the center of the Solar System. Around him, planets orbit, along with a thick asteroid belt, a few meteor fields, and a handful of far distant comets. But that is not the whole story. “Instead, everything orbits around the center of mass …
Read More »New research is rewriting the timeline of how Earth was born
In the early days of the Solar System, baby Earth may have taken much less time to form than we previously thought. According to an analysis conducted in February 2020, there is evidence that most of the Earth took only 5 million years to come together, several times longer than …
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