3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (620+ words) Bit by bit, scientists are piecing together Mars' climate history. Thanks to orbiters armed with powerful cameras and rovers carrying suites of scientific instruments, the red planet's history is becoming clearer year-by-year. In the past decade or so, evidence of…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (813+ words) Billions of years ago, water flowed across Mars. Most scientists agree the red planet had rivers. But did those rivers flow into an ocean? New research from the University of Arkansas found strong evidence in Mars' geology of an ocean…...

1+ hour, 31+ min ago  (960+ words) Scientists have been debating for decades whether Mars once held a vast ocean covering a large part of its northern face. To prove the idea, they've been looking for a "bathtub ring" - a distinct, level shoreline that shows where water…...

8+ hour, 29+ min ago  (1149+ words) The search for life beyond Earth has traditionally focused on exoplanets orbiting Sun-like stars, which is a G-type star. However, low-mass stars, which are designated as K-type and M-type stars, have rapidly become a target for astrobiology, primarily due to…...

15+ hour, 35+ min ago  (1138+ words) Universe Today As we make our way through the latest solar maximum period, scholars and scientists are looking to similar events in the past to learn more about ancient bouts of solar activity. In particular, they want to know more…...

20+ hour, 20+ min ago  (688+ words) These are difficult questions to grapple with. Many of the variables and parameters involved are well beyond the horizon of our knowledge. Still, it's worth a try as a sort of thought experiment. A new paper titled "Projections of Earth's…...

23+ hour, 52+ min ago  (166+ words) So far, America has remained ahead in the new space race. But its biggest rival is making continual steps to catch up. China announced another step in that direction with the unveiling of its first ever reusable five-meter-wide composite propulsion…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (987+ words) Using the e ROSITA space telescope, MPE researchers have successfully isolated the X-ray glow from our Solar System, revealing its impact on the soft X-ray sky. The findings, published in Science, underscore the importance of considering Solar System processes when…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (809+ words) Liquid water is the primary ingredient for life as far as we can determine. The search for habitable exoplanets focuses on this fact. Exoplanet scientists sift through data trying to determine which worlds might be in their stars' habitable zones,…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (218+ words) One of those regions is the Cygnus-X star-forming region. It's located about 4, 500 light years away from Earth, and is home to more than 3 million solar masses of material. It also hosts the Cygnus OB2 association, a massive cluster of thousands of…...