astronomy

Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light

[ad_1] On the eve of this new era of moon landings, a slew of fresh studies of PSRs have revealed…

2 years ago

Behold the Weird Physics of Double-Impact Asteroids

[ad_1] The best candidate for a binary crater on Earth today is the Lockne crater in Sweden and a smaller…

2 years ago

Astronomers Radically Reimagine the Making of the Planets

[ad_1] Start at the center, with the sun. Our middle-aged star may be more placid than most, but it is…

2 years ago

Mathematicians Transcend a Geometric Theory of Motion

[ad_1] “[Floer] homology theory depends only on the topology of your manifold. [This] is Floer’s incredible insight,” said Agustin Moreno…

2 years ago

NASA’s InSight Mars Lander’s Days Are Numbered

[ad_1] While InSight’s pair of solar panels, each one shaped like a decagonal (10-sided) pie, efficiently provide solar power to…

3 years ago

Peptides on Stardust May Have Provided a Shortcut to Life

[ad_1] Billions of years ago, some unknown location on the sterile, primordial Earth became a cauldron of complex organic molecules…

3 years ago