Mars has fascinated humanity for centuries, with its earliest recorded observations dating back to the Bronze Age. By the 17th century, astronomers were able to identify features of the Martian surface, such as its ice caps and darker regions. Since the 1960s, exploration of the Red Planet has intensified with robotic missions from various space […]
January 3 Quadrantids Meteor Shower Predicted Peak January 10 Planet Parade Begins January 13 Full Wolf Moon January 16 Mars at Opposition A new year means it’s time for a new cosmic calendar! While the lack of daylight in the Northern Hemisphere can really suck out all of our energy, more darkness means opportunities to […]
Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. And despite living so close to the cosmic behemoth, they are likely to remain intact for a million years. While our pocket of the universe is home to a solitary sun, that’s not the norm. More […]
Scientists’ best theories on how planets form could be wrong, new research suggests. Astronomers studying a still-forming planet beyond our solar system have found that its chemical makeup doesn’t fully match the swirling gas and dust disk from which it formed. The finding challenges standard models of planet formation and implies they may be overly […]
Illustration of the Kepler-51 system and its inner three planets, which have unusually low density. New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope suggest that at least one more planet is in the system. Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Hustak, J. Olmsted, D. Player and F. Summers (STScI) An unusual planetary system with three known […]
The dwarf planet Makemake, which chills out in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, might be home to an ice volcano1. Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription 24,99 € / 30 days cancel any time Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access […]
NASA is teaming up with Microsoft to create an AI chatbot designed to make it easier to access and understand scientific data about the Earth. The tool, called Earth Copilot, will be able to answer questions about our planet by condensing NASA’s wide swath of geospatial information into easy-to-digest responses. To create the tool, NASA […]
“Dune Part 2” won a pair of awards in the feature competition at the annual Hollywood Professional Association Awards on Thursday at the Television Academy in North Hollywood. It won trophies in color grading, which was awarded to Fotokem colorist David Cole, and in sound, which was presented to the team. Also in the feature […]
The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. This is the color view of Europa from Galileo that shows the largest portion of the moon’s surface at the highest resolution. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute. Scientists have […]
If you were to imagine all of Earth’s history as just one day, as in Carl Sagan’s cosmic calendar, humans wouldn’t arrive until the last few seconds before midnight. A few hundred thousand years of our species amounts to only a tiny fraction of our planet’s past. So how old is our planet, and how […]
