Research sheds new light on intelligent life existing across the Galaxy
We anticipate the next press release we’re going to discuss is going to lead to a lot of click-bait headlines, and we’re bringing it up so we can critically discuss what this story means.
Ingredients for Life Appear in Stellar Nurseries Long Before Stars are Born
Understanding solar system formation is one of the most complex problems of interest today, and it requires understanding so much more than just a star and its worlds: it requires understanding the evolution of our universe.
Four newborn exoplanets get cooked by their sun
Not every world is habitable, and some worlds are actually under attack by their stars. A new paper appearing in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society gives us one particular example of just how bad it can get.
Confirming Einstein’s Most Fortunate Thought
In other news, we have confirmation that even under relativistic conditions, objects of different masses will still fall at the same rate under the same force of gravity.
New Distance Measurements Bolster Challenge to Basic Model of Universe
One mystery that keeps getting harder and harder to explain is the expansion rate of the universe. Since everything that is once occupied a single point and now occupies an undefined and vast volume, we know expansion happened.
New ‘sun clock’ quantifies extreme space weather switch on/off
Our first story of the day is all about the Sun. This nearest star to Earth both warms our days and periodically kills our spacecraft with its outbursts. While clearly it’s nice to be warm, we like our spacecraft, and figuring out how to better live with our Sun’s weather is the goal of space weather researchers.
New hints of volcanism under the heart of northern Europe
New research published in Geophysical Journal International and lead by Corné Kreemer finds that areas of Europe we thought were geologically pretty quiet may be hiding a growing magma chamber.
Three New Views of Mars’ Moon Phobos
We are now going to journey inward to look at more new data on different moons. NASA’s Mars Odyssey, nineteen years after its arrival at the red planet, is still finding time to do science.
Saturn’s Moon Titan Drifting Away Faster Than Previously Thought
Today’s top, click-bait style headline comes to us from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). They would like you to know that Saturn’s moon Titan is moving away from Saturn one hundred times faster than previously thought.
SpaceX Launches Seventh Batch of Starlink Satellites
On Thursday, June 4th at 01:25 am UTC, SpaceX launched yet another batch of sixty Starlink satellites on board a Falcon 9 from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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