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For the first time, researchers have grown plants in a Mars-like environment.
Astronomers have used mysterious Fast Radio Bursts from distant galaxies to solve a lingering cosmological problem-- locating the Universe’s missing baryonic matter , long predicted to exist, but never before detected.
It's part of a set of innovative projects funded by the space agency.
New friends!
The study of the Kuiper Belt body Arrokoth promises to change how we believe the building blocks of planets form. Thus revealing more about how planets such as the Earth are born.
Pluto's heart-shaped basin may be as important for its climate as the ocean is for Earth's climate.
It's not wine out of water, but it's just as impressive.
As the Hans Sigrist Prize is claimed by Ignas Snellen for groundbreaking exoplanet research, the message is clear--the search for other worlds is heating up.
Astronomers have identified a runaway star travelling at an incredible 6 million kilometres per hour, ejected by the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy 5 million years ago.
Small but significant.
In smaller galaxies, large-scale winds from active black holes could hinder the formation of stars.
The study of molten exoplanets around Sun-like stars may provide answers as to the formation of Earth-like planets and the evolution of our world.
This is not what Pluto looks like.
It's exciting to see exoplanet research being awarded with a Nobel Prize.
If having most moons was a race, Saturn just took an unexpected lead.
Clues pointing towards a volcanically active exomoon hidden outside our solar system — a violent and dangerous world — have been discovered by astronomers.
The galaxy's elderly unexpectedly move faster than stellar younglings.
The Pluto saga never ends.
It's been 30 years since Neptune got its close up.
"This is a surprising conclusion," the team admits.
What doesn't kill you makes you bigger and gassier.
The James Webb telescope will be a game changer.
Two-thousand processors simulated more than 8 million universes and countless galaxies.
The wealth of newly discovered ancient galaxies suggests that scientists may have to refine their model of the universe.
The solar system is very different from our own.
It's a remarkable achievement.
A crucial ingredient for life was found on Europa.
They were much brighter than they were supposed to be.
Which means we might need new physics to explain the observation.
This is a real victory for little projects.
We have a shuttle in outer space, orbiting and asteroid and beaming back data and images. Still seems pretty incredible.
It's only 34 km across.
So, you know. Don't smoke.
NASA is funding a steam-powered spacecraft.
In all honesty, I'd wear a donut if I could get away with it, too.
Hi, have you tried switching it off and on again?
Mars may be more life-friendly than we thought.
Someone call a Doctor!
This could, ultimately, help us look for extraterrestrial life in our solar system.
But can moonmoons have moonmoonmoons?
An ice penitence in outer space.
Nice swirls!
Our galaxy is like a phoenix.
The planet is almost as hot as the Sun.a
The galaxies date from the so-called cosmic Dark Ages.
The findings could topple our current understanding of how galaxies merge.
Looking sharp, Titan!
Kind of puts things into perspective, doesn't it?
I don't think any wall can keep this guy out.
