May 24, 2021May 24, 2021 by Cody

May 2021

Dust In A Telescope's Eye Could Blind It To Earth 2.0 December 5, 2025
Hot exozodiacal dust can thwart our efforts to detect exoplanets. It causes what's called coronagraphic leakage, which confuses the light signals from distant stars. The Habitable Worlds Observatory will face this obstacle, and new research sheds light on the problem.
China Outlines Future Plans in New Video, Including Finding Earth 2.0 December 5, 2025
A video that appeared on CGTN's Hot Take details four missions that China will be sending to space in the coming years, including a survey telescope that will search for Earth 2.0.
Historic May 2024 Gannon Solar Storm Compressed Earth’s Plasmasphere December 5, 2025
A powerful geomagnetic superstorm is a once a generation event, happening once every 20-25 years. Such an event transpired on the night of May 10/11, 2024, when an intense solar storm slammed into the Earth’s protective magnetic sheath. Now, a recent study shows just how intrusive that storm was, and how long it took for […]
SPHERE Shows Us How Our Solar System Isn't Much Different Than Others December 5, 2025
Observations with the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory's VLT revealed the presence of debris rings similar to structures in our Solar System. SPHERE found rings similar to the Kuiper Belt and the Main Asteroid Belt. Though individual asteroids and comets can't be imaged, these debris rings infer that other solar systems have architectures […]
Scientists and Senators are Excited About the Sugars Found in the OSIRIS-REx Samples December 5, 2025
It’s been over two years since the samples from Bennu gathered by OSIRIS-REx were returned to Earth. But there’s still plenty of novel science coming out of that 121.6 g of material. Three new papers were released recently that describe different aspects of that sample. One in particular, from Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in […]