A groundbreaking study suggests that ice on ancient asteroids like Ryugu played a crucial role in providing essential materials for life to early Earth. The research, led by Dr. Matt Genge from Imperial’s Department of Earth Science and Engineering, analyzed samples from the Japanese space agency’s Hayabusa2 mission. Scientists found evidence that freeze-thaw cycles fractured … Read more
Abundance ratio [X/H] of HE 2315−4240 (black filled circles) as a function of atomic number. Overplotted in green is the best-matched Population III nucleosynthesis model. The mass and energy of the model are shown in the upper right. Credit: Wang et al., 2024. Based on data from the Magellan-Clay telescope in Chile, astronomers have performed … Read more
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the clearest image yet of the Martian landscape, showing incredible blue rocks on the dusty surface that raise crucial questions about the Red Planet’s complex history. The new image from Mars shows rich, dark blue, jagged volcanic rocks spread across an ancient Martian lake bed at Mount Washburn, named after a … Read more
Astronomers at NASA have made a crucial breakthrough for space communications by sending a signal from a staggering distance of 290 million miles. The feat — sending a laser signal to the Psyche spacecraft, named after the Greek goddess of the soul and launched on a SpaceX rocket last year — broke the agency’s previous … Read more