The team behind the study focused the JWST on a young, low-mass star called T Cha, located around 350 light-years from Earth. This star is known to have a large gap in the protoplanetary disk that swirls around it. Gaps like this indicate a budding young planet is moving around the st...
it also provides us with the technologies, the challenge, the motivation, and even with the optimism to attack these tasks with confidence. What we learn in our space program, I believe, is fully supporting what Albert Schweitzer had in mind when he said: “I am looking at ...
Spaceborne telescopes like TESS that rely on this method are responsible for the vast majority ofexoplanetdetections. But the longer a planet’s orbit, the harder it is for TESS to catch it transiting its star. Still, in a study published in September 2023, an international team of scientists...
or the Northern Crown. It can be spotted as a small, semicircular arc near Bootes and Hercules. When the nova occurs, it will appear as a “new” bright star. “Look up after sunset during summer months to find Hercules!” suggests NASA. “Scan between Vega and Arcturus, near the disti...
“They look somewhat alien and weird, but once you see them in function, it really makes sense,” McClelland said of evolved structures in a2023 interviewwith NASA. Evolved structures are “alien and weird” because AI has no predetermined notions of what something should look like, the way...
The Perseverance rover captured a selfie last year showing the robot in Jezero crater on the red planet where it is collecting soil and rock samples for eventual return to Earth by NASA's Mars Sample Return mission.NASA NASA originally hoped to launch the MSR mission...
Monday's solar eclipse across a swath of the U.S. is dominating the space conversation, so here's how to know if or when you'll see it.
What the mission discovers about Europa’s atmosphere will also lend insights into the moon’s surface and interior. While the atmosphere is faint, with only 100 billionth the pressure of Earth’s atmosphere, scientists expect that it holds a trove of clues about the moon. They have evidence ...
The American space agency NASA says it isseeking a faster, less costly plan to transport Martian rock samples toEarth. The search for a new plan comes after an independent review boardoffered its opinions on the agency's Mars Sample Return program. In addition,NASA has recently faced deep bud...
NASA's Perseverance Rover took a photo of its broken companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, as it sat motionless on a dune on Feb. 4.