Fifth helium leak detected on Starliner

WASHINGTON – NASA has confirmed that Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft has suffered a fifth, albeit small, helium leak in its propulsion system, as engineers work to prepare the vehicle for its return to Earth next week. In a June 10 statement, NASA said spacecraft teams were investigating “what impact, if any, five small leaks in … Read more

Water frost detected on Martian volcanoes in ‘unexpected’ first | CNN

CNN — The equatorial region of Mars is home to the solar system’s tallest volcanoes, which – in addition to being as tall as three Mount Everests in some cases – are likely hiding an unexpected icy phenomenon, a new study has found. The largest – Olympus Mons – is 26 kilometers high and a … Read more

Carbon detected in galaxy observed 350 million years after the Big Bang

Astronomers have discovered carbon in a galaxy seen just 350 million years after the Big Bang, in observations that raise the possibility that conditions for life were present almost from the beginning of time. The observations, made by the James Webb Space Telescope, suggest that huge amounts of carbon were released when the first generation … Read more

Sloshing cold front detected in a massive cluster of galaxies

This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked preprint trusted source proofread OK! by Tomasz Nowakowski, Phys.org RGB (three-color) image of Abell 2566 obtained by appropriate combination of emission measured at 1.4 GHz with VLA C configuration (red), Pan-STARRS r-band (green) and Chandra X-ray soft band (blue). Credit: Kadam et al, 2024 × close … Read more