[ad_1] While NASA may struggle to return to the moon by 2024, the U.S. space agency is doing what it can to possibly explore the lunar surface, announcing an official partnership with Japan for the lunar gateway. NASA and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) have officially announced the deal that will see JAXA contribute to … Read more
[ad_1] Paleontologists have described the first three-dimensional conservation of soft tissue And calathus hermanastes, a skeletal metazoan (multicellular animal) that lived 547 million years ago (Ediacaran period) in what is now Namibia, and established a strong evolutionary link between the Ediacaran and Early Cambrian metazoa. Namacalathus (numbered individuals). Centimeter scale. Image Credit: Shore et al., … Read more
[ad_1] The NASA landing Perseverance Mars rover next month there will be some serious waves, some of which could help scientists better understand the structure of the red planet. Perseverance, the centerpiece of NASA’s $ 2.7 billion Mars 2020 life-hunting and sample-caching mission, is set to land inside the 45 km-wide Jezero Crater on February … Read more
[ad_1] Out there, somewhere in the cosmos, there could be a through black hole that is no longer at the center of its galaxy. In a review published by the American Astronomical Society, scientists noted that the supermassive black hole that is believed to be the center of Abell 2261 may no longer be there. … Read more
[ad_1] In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists found the furthest quasar still known – and it’s home to a seriously supermassive black hole. Astronomers led by researchers at the University of Arizona have spotted the bright quasar about 13.03 billion light years from Earth. Quasars are among the brightest objects in the universe, quasars are bright, … Read more
[ad_1] A fly buzzes in front of your head and lands nearby; you rip off a flyswatter or roll up a magazine and cautiously approach – and hit! But no matter how fast you are, the fly is almost always faster and usually manages to escape your shot and escape unscathed. (Is he trying to … Read more
[ad_1] I have long wondered about the universe’s ironic sense of humor. After all, how come one of the most ethereal, ghostly particles in the cosmos is fundamentally responsible for some of the most colossal and violent explosions? New research indicates neutrinos not only play an important role in supernova explosions, but we need to … Read more
[ad_1] Perhaps just about two minutes into the ignition, SpaceX Starship’s prototype SN9 canceled its third triple-Raptor static firing attempt late in the testing window on January 12. Already extended from 5 p.m. CST (UTC-6) to 8 p.m. CST, SpaceX only really started cleaning up the test facilities near the original end of the window … Read more
[ad_1] Just about every 114 days, almost like clockwork, a galaxy 570 million light years away lights up like fireworks. Since at least 2014, our observatories have recorded this strange behavior; now astronomers have put the pieces together to figure out why. At the center of the spiral galaxy, named ESO 253-G003, a supermassive black … Read more
[ad_1] This artist’s concept shows the planet KOI-5Ab transiting through the face of a Sun-like star, which is part of a three-star system located 1,800 light years away in the constellation Cygnus. Credit: Caltech / R. Injured (IPAC) Shortly after NASA’s Kepler mission began operations in 2009, the space telescope spotted what was thought to … Read more