Approximately 41,000 years ago, Earth experienced a brief geomagnetic reversal known as the Laschamp event. During this period, the planet’s magnetic field significantly weakened, dropping to as low as 5% of its current…
Recent images have unveiled several large perforations in one of the wheels of the Curiosity rover, underscoring the significant wear and tear endured by the robotic explorer after 12 years of navigating the…
NASA’s robotic missions on Mars occasionally encounter unusual rock formations or features, which aligns with their objective of exploring the Martian surface. These discoveries range from intriguing, such as a donut-shaped rock potentially…
As one of the planet Earth’s most proximate celestial neighbors, Mars has long held a fascination for humans, offering the tantalizing possibility of extraterrestrial life situated merely a brief rocket journey away. Thus…
NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently operating in the Gale crater on Mars, is revealing new aspects of the planet’s climatic transition, which has gone from conditions possibly conducive to life – with evidence of…
The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has introduced a newly developed lightweight spacesuit, the result of four years of intensive research and development. According to a report by state broadcaster CCTV, this spacesuit…
Over a span of more than 13 years and accumulating over 500 terabytes of data, the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy has now been completed. This project, the largest ever undertaken…
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Mars wasn’t always the cold desert we see today. There’s increasing evidence that water once flowed on the Red Planet’s surface, billions of years ago. And if there was water,…
The detection by the Perseverance rover of a previously unseen black and white striped rock on Mars came as a surprise to NASA scientists. It raises the question of whether this could be…
A recently published study posits that the black holes postulated by Einstein’s general theory of relativity may not be as featureless and structureless as previously thought. Alternatively, these cosmic entities may be constituted…