Rubies on Mars? Rover finds fluorescent gems for 1st time
Reported by Space | EarthSky
Are there rubies on Mars? NASA's Perseverance rover has found tiny fluorescent gems in pebbles that appear to be rubies or sapphires.
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- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:58 +0000
Pulsars Rewrite the Rules
Reported by Universe Today
For decades, astronomers thought they knew that pulsars broadcast their signatight beams of radio waves fired from near the surface, close to the magnetic poles. A new study of nearly 200 of the fastest spinning pulsars in the universe has just turned that...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:52 +0000
How the Solar Wind Really Works
Reported by Universe Today
The Sun doesn't just pump out light and heat, it blasts a continuous stream of charged particles across the Solar System, and that solar wind is far more complex than it looks. Hidden within it are waves that act as invisible middlemen, constantly shufflin...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:44 +0000
Blocking out the Stellar Lighthouses
Reported by Universe Today
Finding another Earth is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time and the biggest obstacle isn't the distance, it's the glare. An Earth like planet orbiting a Sun like star is ten billion times fainter than its host. A team of NASA engineers a...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:55 +0000
A Galactic Wind Caught in the Act
Reported by Universe Today
Twelve million light years away, a galaxy is throwing a tantrum on a cosmic scale. M82, the Cigar Galaxy is forming stars at ten times the rate of our own Milky Way, and all that frenzied activity has been blasting superheated gas outward in a colossal win...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:38 +0000
Bennu’s Rugged Rocks Explained by Deep Internal Cracks
Reported by Universe Today
Asteroids don’t get the love they deserve. They don’t get “cool points” because they’re not a planet or a potential life-harboring moon. They’re “just a bunch of rocks”. But asteroids are so much more, as they are time capsules of the early...
- By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti)
- On: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:32 +0000