Earth has a “limited willingness” to “rapidly conduct” the necessary space missions to defend itself against a devastating asteroid impact, even with fourteen years’ notice. During an exercise involving multiple U.S. government agencies in April 2024, NASA conducted a so-called “tabletop” game in which participants plotted their response to a 72 percent chance that an … Read more
Earth has a “limited willingness” to “rapidly conduct” the necessary space missions to defend itself against a devastating asteroid impact, even with fourteen years’ notice. During an exercise involving multiple U.S. government agencies in April 2024, NASA conducted a so-called “tabletop” game in which participants plotted their response to a 72 percent chance that an … Read more
While exploring a crater on Mars that could give scientists insight into life that may once have existed there, NASA said its Perseverance rover made an unprecedented discovery. The rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2021 specifically to explore the ancient Jezero crater, found a mysterious light-colored boulder earlier this month that was … Read more
If you look at this Mars vista brings back childhood memories of the song: “One of these things is not like the others”, NASA scientists are there with you. Perseverance, a six-wheeled laboratory the size of a car, traveled to the Red Planet’s Neretva Vallis last week. Although this region may look like an arid … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the oldest and most distant supernova ever observed: a stellar explosion that occurred when the universe was just 1.8 billion years old. The ancient fireworks explosion was discovered along with 80 others in a patch of sky that, from our perspective on Earth, is about the width of … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered an unprecedented collection of ancient supernovae. Astronomers announced that they have found ten times more of these stellar explosions than previously known in the early days of the universe. Some of these approximately 80 newly discovered supernovae exploded when the universe was only about 2 billion years old … Read more
Scientists have discovered ‘giant viruses’ while exploring the Greenland ice sheet They believe they can help reduce ice melt caused by algae blooms The idea of a giant virus lurking on an enormous ice sheet might sound like the plot of the latest science fiction blockbuster. But it has become a reality after researchers discovered … Read more
A PROFESSOR has discovered a new species of dinosaur that is 210 million years old. Kimi Chapelle, from Long Island, made the historic discovery in Zimbabwe – the fourth discovery ever in the southern African country. Long Island professor Kimi Chapelle is among researchers who have discovered a new dinosaur species in ZimbabweCredit: Stony Brook … Read more
This is an artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. An international team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study the disk around a young, very low-mass star known as ISO-ChaI 147. The results reveal the richest hydrocarbon chemistry yet observed in a protoplanetary disk. … Read more
Human interest By means of Alex Mitchell Published June 7, 2024, 4:41 PM ET Call it one dinomicite discovery. A Long Island professor is among researchers who have discovered a new dinosaur species in Zimbabwe – the fourth ever discovered in the African country. Professor Kimi Chapelle of Stony Brook University played a crucial role … Read more