Guiding Us to Distant Planets Inhabited by Extraterrestrials
A team led by scientists has exploited the limitations of chemical combinations to write a cookbook with hundreds of recipes that have the potential to give rise to life. Life…
An Unexpected New Way To Recycle – Scientists Transform Plastic Waste Into Soap
Researchers have developed a new method to recycle plastics, such as those from milk cartons, food containers, and plastic bags, into soap. The method: Heat the long carbon chains in…
High-Energy Electrons from Earth’s Plasma Sheet May Be Forming Water on Lunar Surface
Planetary scientists from the University of Hawaii and elsewhere suggest that although they have confirmed the importance of the solar wind as a major source of water production on the…
NASA’s UAP Study Team Releases Its Final Report
On September 14, 2023, the NASA Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena independent study team published its final report containing a series of recommendations for how the agency could help to move our…
Lucy Sends Back Its First Images of Main-Belt Asteroid Dinkinesh
The small main-belt asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh was recently added to NASA’s Lucy mission and will be the first fly-by target on November 1, 2023. This image of the main-belt asteroid…
4.6-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Provides New Insights into Early Solar Nebula
Scientists have determined a precise lead isotopic age of the andesitic achondrite meteorite Erg Chech 002. Their result, combined with published aluminum-26-magnesium-26 data for Erg Chech 002 and other achondrites,…
ESA’s Mars Express Focuses on Surroundings of Olympus Mons Volcano
Lava flows on Olympus Mons probably melted ice in the ground, making the volcano flank unstable; rockfalls and landslides moved hundreds of km into the surrounding landscape, forming a characteristic…
Long Duration Spaceflights Destroy Red Blood Cells and Bone: Study
But our body can eventually replenish them back on Earth with the help of bone marrow fat, according to new research. JAXA astronaut Aki Hoshide, ISS Expedition 32 flight engineer,…
Early Mars Had a Sustained, Cyclic, Possibly Seasonal, Climate
New observations of mud cracks made by NASA’s Curiosity rover show that high-frequency, wet-dry cycling occurred in early Martian surface environments, indicating that the Red Planet may have once seen…
Mars is Spinning Faster, Planetary Researchers Say
To track the Red Planet’s spin rate, planetary scientists relied on the Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment (RISE) onboard NASA’s InSight lander. They found the planet’s rotation is accelerating by…