Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Volcanic Sulfur May Have Made Early Mars Habitable New University of Texas research suggests reduced sulfur gases from ancient Martian volcanoes could have created a warming greenhouse effect, shaping potentially habitable environments and offering insights relevant to EV infrastructure and materials science.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Chaotic Spiral Galaxy NGC 1511: Collision Aftermath Revealed Hubble's image of NGC 1511 shows a spiral galaxy still reshaping after collisions with smaller companions. Warped arms, a hydrogen bridge and fresh starbursts reveal how galactic crashes drive evolution.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Cloud Clues: New Color Key to Find Alien Life, Telescopes Cornell researchers mapped reflectance spectra of colorful cloud microbes, creating a new toolkit to spot biosignatures on cloudy exoplanets. The discovery affects telescope design, sensor tech and parallels automotive sensor development.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Continents Peeling From Below: Hidden Mantle Highways Researchers find that deep “mantle waves” can peel off fragments of continental roots and sweep them into the oceanic mantle, explaining continental-like geochemistry in remote volcanic islands and reshaping views of mantle transport.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago GJ 251 c: A Nearby Super-Earth 18 Light-Years Away Astronomers have identified GJ 251 c, a nearby super-Earth about 18 light-years away in its star's habitable zone. Observations with HPF and NEID suggest a rocky planet that could host liquid water; future direct imaging with TMT could confirm its nature.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Hidden Giant: NGC 4102's Quiet Supermassive Black Hole Hubble and Chandra unveil a quietly active supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 4102. This nearby, Compton-thick LINER offers insight into low-luminosity AGN and galaxy evolution.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Inside SN 2024ggi: First View of a Supernova Tearing Open Astronomers used VLT spectropolarimetry to capture the shock-breakout of supernova SN 2024ggi, revealing an elongated, olive-shaped explosion and clues to the star's final geometry and possible binary history.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Blue Origin Nails Booster Landing as New Glenn Heads to Mars Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket launched NASA's ESCAPADE twin probes and achieved a landmark booster landing on a sea platform, advancing reusable orbital rockets and Mars science prospects.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Magnetic Fields Explain an 'Impossible' Black Hole Merger Gravitational waves from GW231123 revealed two black holes that seemed to violate stellar evolution theory. New simulations show magnetic fields can eject mass and slow spins, producing 'forbidden' black holes and testable gamma-ray signatures.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Silent Threat: Micrometeoroid Rain Endangers Moon Bases Micrometeoroids strike the Moon relentlessly. New modeling predicts 15,000–23,000 impacts per year on an ISS-sized base, shaping site choice, Whipple shield design, and habitat strategies for Artemis missions.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Where Interstellar Objects Are Most Likely to Strike Earth Simulations show Earth-impacting interstellar objects are likeliest from the solar apex and galactic plane, favoring equatorial latitudes and certain seasons. New models inform LSST search strategies.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Cannibal Stars and Primordial Black Holes: Birth in Seconds New research suggests that in the Universe's first second, interacting particles during a possible Early Matter-Dominated Era could have collapsed into tiny primordial black holes, boson stars, or cannibal stars.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago ESA's Wild Plan: Turning Air and Astronaut Urine into Food ESA's HOBI-WAN project aims to produce Solein — a protein powder made from air, electricity and astronaut urine-derived urea — potentially enabling in-situ food production for long-duration space missions.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Dead Star's Last Meal Reveals Alien Planet Cores Now A white dwarf 145 light-years away shows chemical traces of a destroyed, Earth-like planet. Spectra reveal 13 heavy elements and a high core fraction, offering new insights into late-stage planetary disruption.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Enceladus Warms Up: Hidden Heat Hints at Long-Lived Ocean Cassini data reveal heat escaping from both poles of Saturn's moon Enceladus, indicating a thermally stable subsurface ocean that could remain liquid for geological ages and bolster its astrobiology prospects.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Neutrino Shape-Shifters: Global Study Reveals Cosmic Clues A combined analysis of NOvA and T2K beams maps how neutrinos change flavor. The team sharpened measurements of neutrino oscillations, probed CP violation hints, and set the stage for next-generation detectors.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago 10,000× Sun: Massive Stars That Shaped Early Galaxies A new model proposes that extremely massive stars (1,000–10,000× the Sun) in early globular clusters produced powerful winds that chemically enriched clusters, influenced early galaxies, and left behind intermediate-mass black holes.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago JWST Builds First 3D Map Where Water Breaks on WASP-18b JWST's 3D eclipse mapping of WASP-18b reveals regions hot enough to thermally dissociate water, producing the first volumetric atmospheric map of an ultra-hot Jupiter and new insights into exoplanet chemistry.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Trump Renominates Jared Isaacman to Lead NASA Again President Trump has renominated Jared Isaacman to lead NASA after withdrawing his nomination five months ago. This article examines the politics, Isaacman’s background, the Artemis lunar challenges, and the confirmation hurdles ahead.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Chinese Taikonauts Delayed After Space Debris Strike A piece of space debris struck the Shenzhou-20 return capsule docked at China’s Tiangong station, delaying the November crew return. CMSA is analyzing the damage and weighing contingency plans to keep astronauts safe.