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[ad_1] Submarines, it turns out, could have a big future in space exploration.The subsurface oceans of the Jupiter moon Europa and Saturn satellite Enceladus are perhaps the most tantalizing places in the solar system in the search for alien life. But these water...
[ad_1] Located in South Africa is the Vredefort Crater measuring 25 miles (40 km) deep and 62 miles (100 km) wide. It is the world's oldest and largest known impact structure. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin/U.S. Geological Survey. The most common...
[ad_1] If dark matter exists, then where are the particles? This single question threatens to topple the standard cosmological model, known as the LCDM model. The CDM stands for cold dark matter, and according to the model makes up nearly 85% of matter in the...
[ad_1] Did you know, the Northern lights or Aurora Borealis are created when the mythical Finnish ‘Firefox’ runs so quickly across the snow that its tail causes sparks to fly into the night sky? At least, that’s one of the stories that has been told in Finland about...
[ad_1] Japan's SLIM lunar lander has passed a first critical stage on its voyage to the moon.The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) launched successfully on Sept. 6 with the main objective of demonstrating a highly accurate soft landing on the moon. Teams on...
[ad_1] Back to Article List The distant ice giants are currently being watched with Hubble and New Horizons. Scientists want to add your images to the mix. Uranus (left) and Neptune are our solar system's most distant planets. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech; NASA The New...
[ad_1] For most of the history of astronomy, all we could see were stars. We could see them individually, in clusters, in nebulae, and in fuzzy blobs that we thought were clumps of stars but were actually galaxies. The thing is, most of what’s out there is much harder...
[ad_1] Enabling & Support 19/09/2023 1352 views 30 likes In brief At their closest point in orbit, Earth and Jupiter are separated by almost 600 million kilometres. At the time of writing, five months after launch, Juice has already travelled 370 million...
[ad_1] After seven years flying through space, a spacecraft capsule carrying a precious asteroid sample will touch down on Earth under parachutes this weekend. But what if it crashes? A crash of NASA's OSIRIS-REx descent capsule on Sept. 24 is "the stuff of my...
[ad_1] Back to Article List Herbig-Haro 211 provides an unprecedented look at a baby sun. ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, T. Ray (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) A striking image made with the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate details of Herbig-Hario 211 (HH...