[ad_1] The Reiner Gamma Lunar Vortex is seen decorating the surface of the moon, an image taken with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. A new study hopes to put an end to the …
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[ad_1] NASA's Dawn mission is coming to an end after 11 years of breakthrough in global science, bringing together Breathtaking images, and perform unprecedented spaceship exploits engineering. Dawn's mission has been extended …
Read More »The Color-Changing, Hexagonal Vortex on Saturn Just Surprised Scientists Again
[ad_1] Saturn's hexagon from CassiniPhoto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute Sitting atop Saturn's north pole is one of the Solar System's most striking weather patterns: a rotating, color-changing hexagon slightly …
Read More »Why all late night launches? SpaceX will continue its momentum Sunday
[ad_1] At 1:50 pm on July 22, a SpaceX Falcon 9 took off from Cape Canaveral with the Telstar 19 Vantage telecommunications satellite from Canadian satellite operator Telesat. Another launch for Telesat …
Read More »NASA's only mission in the asteroid belt is dying after 11 years in space – but that could trigger the future discovery of extraterrestrial life, Business Insider
[ad_1] legend An illustration of NASA's Dawn spacecraft flying towards Ceres using its ionic thrusters. source NASA / JPL-Caltech NASA launched an ion – propelled probe called Dawn to the asteroid belt …
Read More »It would take a US-size forest to offset our coal emissions (VIDEO)
[ad_1] Our forests are carbon sinks, areas that help reduce the total amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Some scientists – and even state governments – have proposed planting more forests …
Read More »Wolf 503b, a newly discovered planet, is twice as big as Earth
[ad_1] Scientists using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, recently awake from a sleep intended to conserve a valuable fuel, found Wolf 503b, an exoplanet about twice the size of the Earth, …
Read More »Astronomers spot a new ultra-hot exoplanet twice as big as Earth
[ad_1] When astronomers are looking for exoplanets, the real goal is to find a distant world that could be in the habitable zone according to scientists. These planets, which are just the …
Read More »New research argues for Pluto as planet
[ad_1] This site may generate affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There was no doubt that Pluto was a planet when Clyde Tombaugh spotted it in 1930, …
Read More »The strange magnetic field of Jupiter becomes even stranger
[ad_1] NASA's Juno spacecraft has mapped Jupiter's powerful magnetic field, revealing a surprising asymmetry between the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere. Jupiter is home to the most powerful magnetic field of …
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