Space Exploration

NASA’s Lucy reveals wobbling peanut asteroid with ancient water

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has shown that asteroid Donaldjohanson is a bilobate, tumbling object formed 155 million years ago. The flyby also detected traces of ancient liquid water on its surface.

NASA's Cold Atom Lab resumes quantum experiments on space station

23 giugno 2026 Riportato dall'IA

NASA's upgraded Cold Atom Lab is back in operation aboard the International Space Station, enabling new research into quantum states of matter. The facility creates Bose-Einstein condensates at temperatures near absolute zero.

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James Webb Space Telescope finds differing twilights on exoplanet

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Compact X-ray telescope could map Moon chemistry

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White dwarf binary traced as source of repeating cosmic signals

Hubble images galaxy M88 racing through Virgo Cluster

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has released a new image of Messier 88, a spiral galaxy moving through the Virgo Cluster. The galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole and shows early signs of gas loss due to cluster forces.

NASA’s roman telescope expected to find 100000 exoplanets

01 giugno 2026 Riportato dall'IA

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to discover around 100000 previously unknown exoplanets. This would mark a major increase from the nearly 6300 worlds identified so far. The mission will survey distant regions of the Milky Way using transit and microlensing methods.

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