NASA’s first asteroid-sampling spacecraft is one step closer to touching down on asteroid Bennu. By mimicking rocky seafloor chimneys in the lab, scientists have produced new evidence that these features could have provided the right ingredients to kick-start life. A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity. And we have an interview with astronomer Riley Connors, talking about his team’s research into black holes bending light that we can detect as reflections of accretion disks
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By Dr. Pamela Gay, Erik Madaus, Ally Pelphrey
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NASA’s first asteroid-sampling spacecraft is one step closer to touching down on asteroid Bennu. By mimicking rocky seafloor chimneys in the lab, scientists have produced new evidence that these features could have provided the right ingredients to kick-start life. A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity. And we have an interview with astronomer Riley Connors, talking about his team’s research into black holes bending light that we can detect as reflections of accretion disks
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