Mysterious moonquake traced to Apollo 17 lunar lander base ( www.space.com )
The Apollo 17 lunar lander base is creating small-scale moonquakes on a daily basis.
Strange Neptune-Sized Planet Is Denser Than Steel – May Be Result of a Giant Planetary Clash ( scitechdaily.com )
New Giant Planet Is Evidence of Possible Planetary Collisions A Neptune-sized planet denser than steel has been discovered by an international team of astronomers, who believe its composition could be the result of a giant planetary clash. TOI-1853b's mass is almost twice that of any other similar
What's the largest planet in the universe? ( www.livescience.com )
Astronomers have found planets that are twice as wide as Jupiter and more than 10 times as heavy, but there's a limit to how big planets can get.
Researchers find ancient, high-energy impacts could have fueled Venus volcanism ( phys.org )
A Southwest Research Institute-led team has modeled the early impact history of Venus to explain how Earth's sister planet has maintained a youthful surface despite lacking plate tectonics. The team compared the early collision histories of the two bodies and determined that Venus likely experienced higher-speed, higher-energy...
How old is our universe? New study says Big Bang might have happened 27 billion years ago ( www.usatoday.com )
A study published this week in an astronomical journal suggests our universe could be 26.7 billion years old, or about twice as old as we thought.
A ‘Captured’ Alien Planet May Be Hiding at the Edge of Our Solar System ( www.scientificamerican.com )
The cold and mysterious Oort cloud at the edge of our solar system may be hiding a rogue planet
How to spot October’s ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse across the Americas ( www.newscientist.com )
An annular solar eclipse, also known as a “ring of fire” eclipse because of the way the sun and moon line up, will be visible in the US, Central America and South America on 14 October...
Why is Neptune's moon Triton so weird? ( www.space.com )
Triton orbits to the beat of its own drum.
Webb discovers methane and carbon dioxide in atmosphere of K2-18 b ( www.esa.int )
A new investigation by an international team of astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope into K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, has revealed the presence of carbon-bearing molecules including methane and carbon dioxide. The discovery adds to recent studies suggesting that K2-18 b...
What’s the Bare Minimum Number of People for a Mars Habitat? ( www.universetoday.com )
A recent preprint paper examines the minimum number of people required to maintain a feasible settlement on Mars while accounting for psychological and behavioral factors, specifically in emergency situations. This study was conducted by a team of data scientists from George Mason University and holds the potential to help...
The "airless" Moon really does have an atmosphere, after all ( bigthink.com )
We once thought the Moon was completely airless, but it turns out it has an atmosphere, after all. Even wilder: it has a tail of its own.
Terraforming: why the Moon is a better target than Mars ( bigthink.com )
The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here's how to terraform our lunar neighbor.
Psyche asteroid is worth $10,000-quadrillion, and NASA wants to mine it ( www.earth.com )
The Psyche asteroid, a celestial object laden with precious metals and valued at an astounding $10,000 quadrillion.
A Jupiter-sized dwarf star burns half as hot as a campfire ( www.popsci.com )
The 'ultracool' star is possibly around 44 times as dense as our solar system's largest member—the gas giant Jupiter.
Scientists Detect Intriguing New Signals of Organic Molecules on Mars ( www.sciencealert.com )
Materials found in the rocks of Mars' Jezero Crater suggest that organic matter may be widespread across the red planet.
Good news for the alien life hunt: Buried oceans may be common on icy exoplanets ( www.space.com )
'This significantly increases the chances of finding environments where life could, in theory, develop.'
The scale of The Milky Way - why is the galaxy bigger than you think? ( youtu.be )
This is a journey into the scale of the galaxy we live in, the Milky Way -really well done video
Private Spacecraft Lost in Accident After SpaceX Launch ( futurism.com )
"A space tug that launched on a SpaceX rideshare mission on June 12 started spinning uncontrollably after being deployed."...
NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft ( phys.org )
NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft releases asteroid sample capsule toward Earth in flyby, heads to Apophis ( www.space.com )
OSIRIS-REx's samples of asteroid Bennu will land at 10:42 a.m. EDT (1442 GMT), while the spacecraft itself heads to a new target.
Billion-light-year-wide 'bubble of galaxies' discovered ( phys.org )
Astronomers have discovered the first "bubble of galaxies," an almost unimaginably huge cosmic structure thought to be a fossilized remnant from just after the Big Bang sitting in our galactic backyard.
Something Just Smacked Into Jupiter And Amateur Astronomers Captured It ( www.iflscience.com )
You come at the king, you best not miss.
Scorching Neptune-size world is way too massive for astronomers to explain ( www.space.com )
Which U.S. states will October's 'ring of fire' solar eclipse be visible from? ( www.space.com )
On October 14, 2023, the Americas will experience a partial solar eclipse, but from only eight U.S. states will it be possible to see the 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse.
James Webb Space Telescope survey reveals fewer supermassive black holes than presumed ( phys.org )
A University of Kansas survey of a swath of the cosmos using the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed active galactic nuclei (AGN)—supermassive black holes that are rapidly increasing in size—are rarer than many astronomers had assumed previously.
