Month: June 2022

Within the Solar System, most of our astrobiological research is aimed at Mars, which is considered to be the next-most habitable body beyond Earth. However, future efforts are aimed at exploring icy satellites in the outer Solar System that could also be habitable (like Europa, Enceladus, Titan, and more). This dichotomy between terrestrial (rocky) planets …

Tidal Heating Could Make Exomoons Much More Habitable (and Detectable) Read More »

Making a 3D map of our galaxy would be easier if some stars behaved long enough to get good distances to them. However, red supergiants are the frisky kids on the block when it comes to pinning down their exact locations. That’s because they appear to dance around, which makes pinpointing their place in space …

Red Supergiant Stars Bubble and Froth so Much That Their Position in the Sky Seems to Dance Around Read More »

Stars form inside massive clouds of gas and dust called molecular clouds. The Nebular Hypothesis explains how that happens. According to that hypothesis, dense cores inside those clouds of hydrogen collapse due to instability and form stars. The Nebular Hypothesis is much more detailed than that short version, but that’s the basic idea. The problem …

This is How You Get Multiple Star Systems Read More »

NASA has awarded the JSC Engineering, Technology, and Science (JETS) II contract to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to provide engineering and scientific products, technical services and related services for the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, other NASA centers and government agencies.

NASA has awarded the JSC Engineering, Technology, and Science (JETS) II contract to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to provide engineering and scientific products, technical services and related services for the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, other NASA centers and government agencies.

Florida students will have an opportunity soon to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Florida students will have an opportunity soon to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Image: Copernicus Sentinel-1 maps Bangladesh flood

Most of Greenland’s glaciers that empty into the ocean are at greater risk of rapid ice loss than previously understood.

Magnetars are some of the most fascinating astronomical objects. One teaspoon of the stuff they are made out of would weigh almost one billion tons, and they have magnetic fields that are hundreds of millions of times more powerful than any magnetic that exists today on Earth. But we don’t know much about how they …

The Case is Building That Colliding Neutron Stars Create Magnetars Read More »