Water Detected on Asteroids Iris and Massalia; Spectral Lines Consistent With Findings on Moon

Medicine & Technology Feb 14, 2024

Water was detected in asteroids for the first time. Continue reading to learn more.

NASA’s SOFIA Flying Observatory to Retire This Week After 8 Years

Sep 28, 2022

Read on to know what NASA’s SOFIA mission did for the past eight years.

Where Stars Are Born: NASA's SOFIA Telescope Captures High-Resolution View of a Star Nursery in the Milky Way

Jun 24, 2021

Researchers from the University of Maryland used NASA's SOFIA telescope to capture the first clear view of an expanding bubble of hot plasma where stars are born.

"Super Earth" 2x to 6x Size of Earth Has 5 Mini-Neptunes: Learn More about This Six-Planet System

Apr 20, 2020

Scientists have found new interesting facts about a certain "Super Earth" that is 2 to 6 times the size of Earth like 4 mini-Neptunes and more!

Social Humanoid Robots: The Beginning of a New Race?

Mar 13, 2019

Artificial intelligence or artificial threat?

Supernovae Dust ‘Goldmine’ Found at the Center of the Milky Way

Mar 22, 2015

One of the largest questions to date has been what building materials were present at the formation of our Milky Way galaxy? Astronomers have long theorized that the building material may have come from the death of supermassive stars, however, the galaxy-building dust is thought to burn up in a supernova like that. But now researchers are saying that may not be the case at all. In a new study published this week in the journal Science Express, researchers with Cornell University have made the first direct discovery of dust used to build the cosmos at the center of the Milky Way, and they believe it may have resulted from an ancient supernova.

Striking It Rich in Supernovae Dust at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy

Mar 19, 2015

It’s a tough job sifting through the data and the haze of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, but some astronomers have to do it. The time-consuming job often means having to peer into the center with aid of multiple telescopes, all giving you a different perspective at a different wavelength. It can be job of countless hours, with little to no reward, but when researchers find even cosmic dust, their studies can strike it rich.