by quasarn01 | Jul 15, 2026 | Astronomy
On July 16, 2024, a daytime meteor shook New York City with a sonic boom as it passed just south of the Statue of Liberty. Now, an international team of researchers reports in the journal Science Advances that a short time later, a meteorite weighing more than 2...
by quasarn01 | Jul 15, 2026 | Astronomy
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has uncovered evidence that a 245-foot-thick (75-meter-thick) stack of ancient rock on the rim of Jezero Crater was built by repeated asteroid impacts. Referred to as the “Broom Point member” by the rover’s...
by quasarn01 | Jul 15, 2026 | Astronomy
Typically, astronomers identify comets by their distinct atmospheres, or comae, and their tails, which are created as the sun vaporizes a comet’s ice. These features emit a glow when sunlight bounces off dust and water droplets. As gas escapes the body of the...
by quasarn01 | Jul 15, 2026 | Astronomy
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has spotted a swath of metallic-looking waves filling Mars’s large Kaiser Crater—an ancient and otherworldly dune field sculpted by wind. Go to Source
by quasarn01 | Jul 15, 2026 | Astronomy
The effects of extreme space weather may be larger than previously thought, research in the journal Nature reveals. The paper, titled “Regression to the mean can explain saturation of geomagnetic storms,” is led by Dr. Nithin Sivadas of NASA’s...
by quasarn01 | Jul 15, 2026 | Astronomy
European astronomers have conducted optical and radio observations of an enigmatic radio source designated GRS 0917+75. As a result, they found that GRS 0917+75 is a giant radio galaxy and determined its properties. The new findings were published July 3 on the...
