STScI, Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Using NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence for what could be the first discovery of a possible moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system. This moon candidate, which is 8,000 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation, orbits a gas-giant planet[Read More…]
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Matter Falling into a Black Hole at 30 Percent the Speed of Light
Royal Astronomical Society-(ENEWSPF)- A UK team of astronomers report the first detection of matter falling into a black hole at 30% of the speed of light, located in the center of the billion-light-year distant galaxy PG211+143. The team, led by Professor Ken Pounds of the University of Leicester, used data[Read More…]
NASA’s GPM Satellite Peers Under the Clouds of Hurricane Florence (Video)
MARYLAND—(ENEWSPF)—September 6, 2018 By: Rob Gutro and Hal Pierce Hurricane Florence became more powerful over the past few days while moving through the central Atlantic Ocean and wind speeds increased from tropical storm force to a Category 3 hurricane. The GPM core satellite provided a look under the clouds to investigate[Read More…]
NASA’s InSight Passes Halfway to Mars, Instruments Check In (Video)
CALIFORNIA—(ENEWSPF)—August 20, 2018 Contacts: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. and JoAnna Wendel, NASA Headquarters, Washington NASA’s InSight spacecraft, en route to a Nov. 26 landing on Mars, passed the halfway mark on Aug. 6. All of its instruments have been tested and are working well. As of Aug. 20, the spacecraft[Read More…]
NASA, ULA Launch Parker Solar Probe on Historic Journey to Touch Sun (Video)
FLORIDA—(ENEWSPF)—August 13, 2018 Contacts: Dwayne Brown, Karen Fox, Geoffrey Brown, and Tori McLendon Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will undertake a landmark mission. The spacecraft will transmit[Read More…]
Omega Centauri Unlikely to Harbor Life
Close encounters between stars in the Milky Way’s largest globular cluster leave little room for habitable planetary systems By Sarah Nightingale Riverside, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Searching for life in the vast universe is an overwhelming task, but scientists can cross one place off their list. Omega Centauri — a densely packed cluster of[Read More…]
Pair of Colliding Stars Spill Radioactive Molecules into Space
Charlottesville, VA-(ENEWSPF)- When two Sun-like stars collide, the result can be a spectacular explosion and the formation of an entirely new star. One such event of colliding stars was seen from Earth in 1670. It appeared to observers as a bright, red “new star.” Though initially visible with the naked eye,[Read More…]
Evidence of Subsurface Martian Liquid Water Bolstered
Tucson, AZ-(ENEWSPF)- The announcement of the presence of liquid water beneath the surface of Martian poles validates research published by PSI Senior Scientist Stephen Clifford back in 1987. A paper published in the June 25 issue of Science says that data collected, by the MARSIS orbital radar sounder on the[Read More…]
Galaxy Outskirts Likely Hunting Grounds for Dying Massive Stars and Black Holes
Rochester, NY-(ENEWSPF)- Findings from a Rochester Institute of Technology study provide further evidence that the outskirts of spiral galaxies host massive black holes. These overlooked regions are new places to observe gravitational waves created when the massive bodies collide, the authors report. The study winds back time on massive black[Read More…]
Solar Flares Disrupted Radio Communications During Sept. 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Relief Effort
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- An unlucky coincidence of space and Earth weather in early September 2017 caused radio blackouts for hours during critical hurricane emergency response efforts, according to a new study in Space Weather, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. The new research, which details how the events on the Sun and Earth[Read More…]