Category: Astronomy

MessageToEagle.com – Surface of dwarf planet Ceres is rich in organic matter, researchers say. A team led by Southwest Research Institute has concluded that the data from NASA’s Dawn

MessageToEagle.com – Voyager 2 now is slightly more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from Earth. Mission operators still can communicate with Voyager 2 as it enters this

MessageToEagle.com – China launched a rover early Saturday destined to land on the far side of the moon, a global first that would boost Beijing’s ambitions to become a

MessageToEagle.com – As Earth’s magnetic shield fails, so do its satellites. First, our communications satellites in the highest orbits go down. Next, astronauts in low-Earth orbit can no longer

MessageToEagle.com – Computer simulations of the plumes of liquid water that stream out of Jupiter’s moon Europa show that the forthcoming space mission JUICE may offer an answer to

MessaegToEagle.com – Astronomers have discovered a distant planet with an abundance of helium in its atmosphere, which has swollen to resemble an inflated balloon. The planet – HAT-P-11b – is

MessageToEagle.com – Researchers have observed young stars in a star-forming region in the constellation Taurus and found many of them to be surrounded by structures that can best

MessageToEagle.com – The Earth’s early formation process was a relatively quick from the cloud of dust and gas around the sun, trapping water and gases in the planet’s mantle,

MessageToEagle.com – It’s the first time a visitor from another star system has been seen nearby.  But what is it?  An asteroid, a comet … or an alien artifact?

MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-Rex arrived at the asteroid Bennu Monday. The spacecraft executed a maneuver that transitioned it from flying toward Bennu to operating around the asteroid.

MessageToEagle.com – Researchers used a new method for measuring isotopic ratios of water and carbon dioxide and found that the water in Saturn’s rings and satellites is like water

MessageToEagle.com – An international team of scientists have detected ripples in space and time, known as gravitational waves, from the biggest known black-hole collision that formed a new black

MessageToEagle.com – An international team of astronomers involving researchers at the University of Tokyo and Astrobiology Center of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences have reported more than

MessageToEagle.com – An international team of astronomers using the Kepler space telescope and other ground-based telescopes to witness a Type 1a supernova  just minutes after the explosion occurred  170 million light

MessageToEagle.com – Using ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array), researchers have found that the rings of gas surrounding active supermassive black holes are not simple donut shapes. Instead, gas expelled

MessageToEagle.com – ESA’s Exoplanet Satellite ‘Cheops’ will target 15 October to 14 November 2019 for launch. Cheops will lift off on a Soyuz rocket operated by Arianespace from Europe’s spaceport

MessageToEagle.com – The Big Bang theory and the question of how life on Earth began has fascinated scientists for decades, but now new research from The University of Western

MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to do a comprehensive census of  22,426 globular star clusters found to date. Globular clusters are much smaller than entire

MessageToEagle.com – A new method explains how radiation belts are formed around the planet Saturn, has been discovered by an international team of researchers from BAS (British Antarctic Survey), University

MessageToEagle.com – Massive ultracompact galaxies are very small and extremely rare, but may hold the secrets of how galaxies form and evolve. They have several times more stars than our

MessageToEagle.com – The unmanned InSight spacecraft landed on the red planet without problems just before 3 p.m. ET on Monday. InSight’s two-year mission will be to study the deep

MessageToEagle.com – On 26 November, NASA’s robotic science lab – InSight lander  – will land on the dusty Martian surface around 20:00 UTC (21:00 CET). NASA’s InSight spacecraft will

MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers recently discovered the stars all were born in the same generation, solving a long-standing puzzle about how stars evolve. A team of Korean and Belgian astronomers

MessageToEagle.com – A new study led by ANU has investigated the nature of a cosmic phenomenon that slows down star formation, which helps to ensure the Universe is a place where life

MessageToEagle.com – Using X-ray and radio data, scientists have determined that Abell 1033 is actually two galaxy clusters in the process of colliding. This extraordinarily energetic event, happening from