It is not an ethereal landscape of tombs forgotten by time. Those soot-tinged fingers don’t stretch out either. These pillars, filled with gas and dust, “envelop” stars that are slowly forming over…
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Haunting Portrait: Webb Reveals the Dust and Structure of the Pillars of Creation
It is not an ethereal landscape of tombs forgotten by time. Those soot-tinged fingers don’t stretch out either. These pillars, filled with gas and dust, “envelop” stars that are slowly forming over…
NASA and ESA agree on next steps to return samples from Mars to Earth
A concept for multiple robots that would team up to transport rock and soil samples collected from the Martian surface by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover back to Earth. Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech The next…
Newton’s law of universal gravitation is challenged by a controversial new discovery in astrophysics – The Debrief
A team of astrophysicists has revealed an unusual discovery that they say appears to challenge our current understanding of gravity based on Newton’s law of universal gravitation, according to a recently published…
Zombie Worlds: Five Spooky Planets Orbiting Dead Stars
Zombie world poster. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech All stars, including the sun, have a limited lifespan. Stars shine through the process of nuclear fusion in which lighter atoms, such as hydrogen, fuse together to…
A Swiss-led group again comes up with a revolutionary new way to directly image exo-Earths
Artist’s impression of the LIFE space mission concept consisting of 4 collectible spacecraft and 1 … [+] beam combiner spacecraft. Spacecraft fly in formation and are separated by tens to hundreds of…
A close look at the melting beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf
Map of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf using the Polar Stereographic Projection (PS71), the inset shows the location of the study area in Antarctica. The contours mark the thickness of the water column…
Researchers design a multifunctional soil-inspired chemical system
Dynamically responsive soil-inspired chemical system for microbial modulation. 1 credit Soil is a dynamic system of microbe-material interactions and environmental reactivity. The soil-microbe complex is an integrated and adaptable system that can…
Launch of the GoFundMe campaign for the Stony Plain family whose granddaughter suffers from a rare genetic disease
Breadcrumb Links New Local News A GoFundMe campaign has been launched for Viola Kaiser, eight-month-old from Stony Plain, who has been diagnosed with an extremely rare genetic condition called Sandhoff’s disease, which…
Containing Space Debris May Require A Change Of Attitude
There’s a lot of talk these days about how best to deal with our growing space debris problem. No single answer is likely to serve as a silver bullet, in part because…