Magnetic disturbances caused by phenomena like the northern lights can be tracked by a “social network” of ground-based instruments, according to a new study from the University of Warwick. The researchers, led by Professor Sandra Chapman, have for the first time characterized the observations from over 100 ground-based magnetometers in terms of a time-varying directed ...
On May 23, SpaceX launched 60 satellites into space. A part of the Starlink project, these are the first batch of a proposed 12,000 that the company plans on deploying in Earth’s orbit to give wireless broadband Internet access to the entire world. However, astronomers are not happy about the project and are accusing Musk’s ...
The Chinese lunar rover Chang’e 4 has found what seems to be the first indication of minerals in the Moon’s mantle. The discovery was made by researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Minerals on the Moon In early January, the Chang’e 4 lunar rover landed inside the Von Karman ...
Earth is bombarded every year by rocky debris, but the rate of incoming meteorites can change over time. Finding a collection scattered on the planet’s surface can be challenging, especially if you are interested in reconstructing how frequently they land. Now, researchers have uncovered a wealth of well-preserved meteorites that allowed them to reconstruct the ...
Time travel is something that is often presented as a fantasy. The idea that a human being can travel into the future is believed to be impossible. However, you may be surprised to know that a Russian cosmonaut has already traveled into the future. The time traveler Sergei Krikalev is a veteran space traveler who ...
Think you have never come in contact with dark matter? You couldn’t be more wrong. The average human body gets hit by a dark matter particle once every minute according to Katherine Freese from the University of Michigan and Christopher Savage from Stockholm University. Dark matter and the human body Dark matter is a hypothetical ...
Astronomers believe planets like Jupiter shield us from space objects that would otherwise slam into Earth. Now, they’re closer to learning whether these also guard solar systems elsewhere in the galaxy. A UCR-led team has discovered two Jupiter-sized planets about 150 light years away from Earth that could reveal whether life is likely on the ...
A lunar lander named for the Chinese Goddess of the Moon may have lessened the mystery of the far side of the Moon. The fourth probe of Chang’e-4 was the first mission to land on the far side of the Moon, and it has collected new evidence from the largest crater in the solar system, ...
NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary building block and Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69. Analyzing just the first sets of data gathered during the New Horizons spacecraft’s New Year’s 2019 flyby of MU69 (nicknamed Ultima Thule), the mission team quickly discovered an ...
Researchers recently discovered a 3900-mile-long ice corridor on Saturn’s largest moon Titan. The geological formation length is roughly 40 percent of Titan’s circumference. The structure was identified by scientists using data recorded by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Titan’s ice corridor Studying Titan’s surface is usually a difficult task since the moon is covered with several layers ...
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