Astronomi

NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected large, complex carbon molecules on rocks in Jezero Crater that show patterns resembling ancient microbial activity on Earth.

24. juni 2026 Rapporteret af AI

A hidden intermediate-mass black hole could account for the three distinct populations of stars orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center. Researchers built a model showing how one tilted companion object can shape all three groups through gravitational effects. The work was detailed in a recent arXiv paper.

An asteroid discovered in 2014 has been officially named after the late musician Elliott Smith. The naming was approved by the International Astronomical Union’s Working Group for Small Body Nomenclature.

18. juni 2026 Rapporteret af AI

NASA has contracted a startup to launch a robotic spacecraft that will grab the aging Swift observatory and raise its orbit before it falls too low. The Link servicing satellite is set to fly on the final Pegasus rocket later this month.