167 results for "space debris"

“We measured an apparent motion that is four times faster than light. That illusion, called superluminal motion, results when the jet is pointed nearly toward Earth and the material in...

Posted on Jun 4, 2021 in Astronomy, Science, Space The weird shapes and colors of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos have inspired a long-standing debate about their origins....

Posted on Sep 27, 2018 in Alien Life, Astronomy, Climate Change, Cosmology, Cosmos, Evolution, Extraterrestrial Life, Science, SETI, Space, Technology, Universe “Finding a civilization dead due to war or climate...

Posted on Aug 21, 2018 A key controversy of the post-Apollo era was whether the lunar poles might contain water or not.  Although the Apollo samples had been studied and found...

Posted on Aug 15, 2018 “My goal is to try to come up with a really new way to look for new physics” — one driven by the data rather...

Posted on Jul 4, 2018 in Astronomy, Milky Way Galaxy, Science An international team of astronomers propose that around 8 billion to 10 billion years ago, an unknown dwarf galaxy...

Posted on May 29, 2018 in Black Hole, NASA, Physics A star that wanders too close to the supermassive black hole in the center of its galaxy will be torn...

Though long hypothesized, the first evidence for a debris disk forming a new planetary system around any star was uncovered in 1983 with NASA’s Infrared Astronomical Satellite. Later photographs revealed...

Posted on May 21, 2018 in Environmental, Geology For now, scientists in Hawaii and around the world are watching Kilauea and waiting to see what else the volcano will do....

Posted on Apr 2, 2018 As part of an effort to identify distant planets hospitable to life, NASA has established a crowdsourcing project in which volunteers search telescopic images for...

Posted on Jan 5, 2018 in Cosmos, Solar System, Space, Universe One of the highlights of 2017 was the discovery of the first object in our solar system that definitely...

Posted on Jun 15, 2021 in NASA, Physics, Space, Universe The 2017 discovery of a binary neutron star merger opened a new era in astronomy. It marked the first time...

Posted on Sep 19, 2017 in Uncategorized During almost four years of observing the cosmos, the Herschel Space Observatory traced out the presence of water. With its unprecedented sensitivity and...

Posted on Oct 15, 2016 in Uncategorized In some 80,000 years (or next month or two years ago), footprints and tracks of the Apollo Mission astronauts will have been completely...

Posted on Aug 30, 2016 The solar system could be thrown into disaster when the sun dies if the mysterious ‘Planet Nine’ exists, according to research from the University of...

Posted on Jul 10, 2016 in Uncategorized Where did the two natural satellites of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, come from? For a long time, their shape suggested that they were...

"In one sense we know much less about Earth than we do about Mars. The vast majority of life forms on our planet are still undiscovered, and their significance for...