The Daily Space

Percy Rover’s MOXIE Extracts Oxygen From Atmosphere

Apr 26, 2021 | Asteroids, Daily Space, Exoplanets, Mars 2020, Perseverance, Physics, Stars

In another first for NASA’s Perseverance rover, a cube-shaped instrument called MOXIE, or Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, has successfully converted some of Mars’ atmospheric carbon dioxide into oxygen. Plus, a wild roundup of stories including...

Rocket Roundup for April 21, 2021

Apr 23, 2021 | Blue Origin, Crewed Space, Daily Space, Earth, Mars, Random Space Fact, Rockets, ROSCOSMOS, Soyuz, Space History, Spacecraft

In this week’s Rocket Roundup, host Pamela Gay presents a suborbital Blue Origin launch, the return of Soyuz MS-17, a hovering Ingenuity drone, and an Earth Day special on Earth observatories. Plus, this week in rocket history, we look back at STS-31, which launched...

Star Formation Occurs in Competitive Environment

Apr 22, 2021 | Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Climate Change, Daily Space, Earth, Fast Radio Bursts, Mars, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, OSIRIS-REx, Spacecraft, Star Forming Region, Stars, Supernovae

A survey of the stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula Cluster provides evidence that stars compete for material and their size depends on what they gather rather than their initial core size. Plus, NASA mission updates, fast radio bursts, neutron stars, visible novae,...

Another Potential Dark Matter Particle Isn’t Found

Apr 20, 2021 | Cosmology, Dark Matter, Earth, Galaxies, Physics, Supermassive Black Holes

Researchers looked for a slowdown in black hole rotational speeds due to the collection of ultralight bosons, but they found nothing, eliminating the hypothetical particle from the list of possible dark matter particles. Plus, neutrino hunting, neutron stars, a space...

Exoplanetary Atmospheres and How to Understand Them

Apr 19, 2021 | Asteroids, Astrobiology, Daily Space, Earth, Exoplanets, Moon, Physics, Sky Watching, Stars, The Sun

Today’s news examines many of the ways in which scientists are trying to understand Earth’s atmosphere as well as the atmospheres of exoplanets, mostly in the hopes of figuring out the best way to tell if there is life on another world. Plus, sixty years of fusion...