These Bizarre Features on Mars are Caused by Carbon Dioxide Geysers
Reported by Universe Today
Though it’s a cold, dead planet, Mars still has its own natural beauty about it. This image shows us something we’ll never see on Earth. Mars has only a thin, tenuous atmosphere, and most of it (95%) is carbon dioxide. When Martian winter arriv...
- By: Universe Today
- On: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:22 +0000
Science Points Out Paths to Interplanetary Adventures
Reported by Universe Today
What would you do for fun on another planet? Go ballooning in Venus’ atmosphere? Explore the caves of Hyperion? Hike all the way around Mercury? Ride a toboggan down the slopes of Pluto’s ice mountains? Or watch clouds roll by on Mars? All those advent...
- By: Universe Today
- On: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:26 +0000
Asteroid 2024 YR4 triggers a Potential Impact Warning Notification
Reported by Space | EarthSky
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has now triggered a Potential Impact Warning Notification from the International Asteroid Warning Network. Read it here.
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- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:30 +0000
NASA Invites Media to Discuss PUNCH Mission to Study Solar Wind
Reported by NASA
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 4, to share information about the agency’s upcoming PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which is targeted to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27. The a...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:00 +0000
Communicating with Gravitational Waves
Reported by Universe Today
When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe. Before that, astronomy depended on observations of light in all its wavelengths. We also use light to communicate, mostly radio ...
- By: Universe Today
- On: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:00 +0000
NASA, Partners to Welcome Fourth Axiom Space Mission to Space Station
Reported by NASA
NASA and its international partners have approved the crew for Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, launching from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than spring 2025. Peggy Whitson, fo...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:09 +0000