Moonquakes could reveal ice buried beneath lunar south polar craters

by quasarn01 | Jul 31, 2026 | Astronomy

Finding water on the moon may only be a matter of detecting the right vibrations. Go to Source

Laying odds on the potential for Martian water near future landing zones

by quasarn01 | Jul 31, 2026 | Astronomy

We know Mars has water ice in its polar regions, but astronauts (and their solar-powered equipment!) would much rather experience life closer to Mars’ equator. As NASA looks toward landing humans on the red planet, the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) is...

Homing in on the X-ray sky with eROSITA’s second data release

by quasarn01 | Jul 31, 2026 | Astronomy

The German eROSITA consortium (eROSITA-DE), which includes the University of Bonn and is led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), has released its second major public data set, the “eROSITA Data Release 2” (DR2). Go to...

ELT’s spectrograph could ‘sniff out’ biosignatures on other worlds

by quasarn01 | Jul 31, 2026 | Astronomy

Before any major telescope commissioning, there are dozens of papers that attempt to define what we can expect from it. We’re starting to see some come through for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which hopefully will get a more imaginative name when the 39...

Optimized magnetic pulses could cut memory switching energy by several orders of magnitude

by quasarn01 | Jul 31, 2026 | Latest in Physics

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) driven by artificial intelligence (AI) are generating data at an unprecedented rate. Every internet search, AI-generated image, recommendation, scientific simulation and large language model creates and processes...