The sunspot appeared last week as large but relatively calm in the active region 2882, or AR2882. But now it begins to activate and the AR2882 erupts with a powerful coronary mass ejection (CME) on the morning of October 9 … Read More
For now, life is flourishing on our oxygen-rich planet, but Earth wasn’t always this way – and scientists predict that the atmosphere will revert to one rich in methane and low in oxygen in the future. This is unlikely to … Read More
Thousands want to colonize Mars, but is it possible to establish a viable extraterrestrial human civilization? This question is asked by scientists from NASA’s Ames Research Center, who are attempting to predict whether humanity will be able to successfully reproduce … Read More
Galaxies exchange matter with their external environment thanks to galactic winds. For the first time, the MUSE instrument from the Very Large Telescope has mapped the galactic wind that drives these exchanges between galaxies and nebulae. This discovery led to … Read More
With only one star in the sky, our Solar System appears to be an outlier. Most stars in the Milky Way galaxy have at least one gravitationally bound stellar companion, implying that two-star worlds such as Tatooine are not uncommon. … Read More
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission captured its first images of its destination planet Mercury as it swooped past in a close gravity assist flyby. The closest approach occurred on October 1, 2021, at 23:34 UTC, at an altitude of 199 km … Read More