Researchers have discovered a method for making high-resolution maps of planetary surfaces like the moon's by combining available imagery and topography data. Mapping the complex and diverse surface… [+2732 chars]
For now, scientists are calling the meteor CNEOS 2014-01-08, and they believe it to be about a half-meter wide. The object was first recognized by then graduate student Amir Siraj and Harvard profess… [+1239 chars]
Ask astronomers about dark matter and one of the things they talk about is that this invisible, mysterious “stuff” permeates the universe. In particular, it exists in halos surrounding most galaxies.… [+5122 chars]
More than half a billion years ago, Earth experienced an almost-complete collapse of its magnetic field. It began in the early Cambrian period. Then, after a period of about 15 million years, the f… [+5978 chars]
Earth escaped a giant asteroid by a wafer thin margin! This giant asteroid, known as Asteroid 2022 OE2 was recently spotted by NASA for the first time and within a few days, it made its closest appro… [+1980 chars]
NASA is already studying an asteroid named Bennu under its OSIRIS-REx mission to better understand its characteristics. It even plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth for detailed analys… [+2059 chars]
Space scientists have observed what they believe is the most massive known example of an object called a neutron star. It has been called a black widow since it gained much of its mass by taking it … [+4095 chars]
Major habitat shifts, such as moving to land from the sea, are key evolutionary events that often spark explosions of diversity. Until recently, it was unclear how frequent such habitat transitions h… [+2407 chars]
We have a pretty good idea of what lurks within our Solar System. We know there isnt a Mars-sized planet orbiting between Jupiter and Saturn nor a brown dwarf nemesis heading our way. Anything larg… [+2800 chars]
Paper Title:CLEAR: Boosted Ly Transmission of the Intergalactic Medium in UV bright Galaxies Authors: Intae Jung, Casey Papovich, Steven L. Finkelstein, Raymond C. Simons, Vicente Estrada-Carpenter,… [+5476 chars]
On Mars, there's a unique kind of "tumbleweed" rolling across the Martian plains. These tumbleweeds aren't plants - they are pieces of debris from the entry, descent, and landing (EDL) hardware from… [+3424 chars]
It is quite common to find anomalies around the vast universe and a team of researchers have recently discovered 11 undetected ones with seven of them being potential supernova candidates. In the new… [+1913 chars]
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