Scientists literally brought out the big gun to study the origins of water0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 26, 2018
High impact research.
High impact research.
ESA’s Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and revealing previously unseen details of our home Galaxy.
This clip is made up of 25 minutes worth of images from ESA’s Philae lander, and was processed by Twitter user landru79.
The Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way’s nearest neighbors, may be more massive than previously thought.
An expanding cloud of atoms could offer insight into unanswered cosmological questions
The planet’s cloud tops contain hydrogen sulfide, the compound that gives bad eggs their stink
A new survey precisely links the shape of a galaxy to the ages of its stars
The inactivity of astronauts during spaceflights presents a significant risk to their muscles, says a new study in The Journal of Physiology.
When our solar system was in its infancy 4.5 billion years ago, a swarm of protoplanets swirled around the sun—some of which coalesced into larger and larger masses, while others were blasted to smithereens in a demolition derby of planetary proportions.