Enceladus’ sea floor has hydrothermal vents like ours
In 1977, a group of marine researchers discovered something they’d only before theorized: cracks in the ocean floor releasing heat, warming up (and often boiling) the ocean around it. They also...
How does sound travel on Mars?
A few weeks ago, a large rock got caught in one of the wheels of the Mars Curiosity rover. It’s an occupational hazard: unlike a car on Earth, the rover’s aluminum wheels are open on the...
What Earth looks like from other planets
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is on the final chapter of its almost 20-year-long mission, scheduled to end September 15, 2017. While Cassini was passing by Saturn on April 12, 2017, it took one last...
Land Between the Lakes Offers Event on Astronomy
People interested in astronomy and the total solar eclipse coming up this summer can learn more at an event this week at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. West Kentucky Amateur...
Astronomy instructor gives lessons on science of a solar eclipse
Members of the Business Club got a lesson in science and astronomy on Wednesday as the community continues to prepare for the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21. Tom Robinson, astronomy instructor at...
Supermassive black holes found in two tiny galaxies
Three years ago, a University of Utah-led team discovered that an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy contained a supermassive black hole, then the smallest known galaxy to harbor such a giant black hole....
NASA team explores using LISA Pathfinder as ‘comet crumb’ detector
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) with contributions from NASA, has successfully demonstrated critical technologies needed to build a space-based observatory for...
Newly discovered exoplanet may be best candidate in search for signs of life
The newly discovered super-Earth LHS 1140b orbits in the habitable zone around a faint red dwarf star named LHS 1140, in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster)[1]. Red dwarfs are much smaller...
