A new research provides further convincing proof that Mars has lakes of liquid water
New evidence has emerged in the ongoing debate about whether or not there’s water on Mars. In a study led by the University of Cambridge, scientists examined…
MIT’s Mars oxygen factory is now matching the output of a small tree
If humans are to one day survive and thrive on Mars, ready access to breathable oxygen will be a necessity, and an interesting technology is beginning to…
Solving the mystery of frost hiding on Mars
A new study using data from NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter may explain why Martian frost can be invisible to the naked eye and why dust avalanches appear…
Finding spiraling stars, providing window into early universe
Nature likes spirals – from the whirlpool of a hurricane, to pinwheel-shaped protoplanetary disks around newborn stars, to the vast realms of spiral galaxies across our universe. Now…
Hubble spots ultra-speedy jet blasting from star crash
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have made a unique measurement that indicates a jet, plowing through space at speeds greater than 99.97% the speed of light,…
The photograph of Mars’ terrain with 2.5 billion pixels is the most detailed one ever
NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured some incredible imagery since landing on the Red Planet early last year, but none as detailed as its latest effort. A newly arrived panorama…
Capturing dazzling ‘galaxy merger’ 270 million light-years away
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a pair of entwining galaxies plunging headfirst into one another in a process known as a galaxy merger, in a new picture released…
We are helpless to stop the universe from collapsing
The observable Universe contains an estimated two trillion galaxies. Most are already unreachable, and the situation is worsening. Because the Universe gravitates as it expands, the rate…
The first time, the stars collide observed with the naked eyes
Aaron Zimmerman was visiting his brother in Tucson, Arizona, on August 17, when, at 7 a.m., his phone started pinging. Zimmerman, a researcher at the Canadian Institute…
Astronomers just found water on the sunlit Moon which is a sign of the life
Casey Honniball, a Postdoctoral Program Fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, tells Popular Mechanics via email. Since 2009, when a NASA instrument aboard India’s Chandrayaan lunar…