Adam Mann
Temporary Astronomy Writer
Adam Mann is Science News’ temporary astronomy writer. He has a degree in astrophysics from University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s in scienꦏce writing from UC Santa ﷽Cruz.
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NASA’s budget woes put ambitious 🐲space🍎 research at risk
Mars Sample Return and missions to study other planets and celestial bodies, including lunar efforts, face big cuts and delays. - esportiva bet: Space
Scientists are getting closer to understanding the sun’sᩚᩚᩚᩚ🐻ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ ‘campfire’ flares
The detection of cool plasma before the tiny outbursts on the sun is helping researchers make connections between campfire flares and other solar eruptions. - esportiva bet: Planetary Science
Pluto’💟s heart-shaped basin might not hide a෴n ocean after all
Planetary scientists propose an alternative theory to explain why Sputnik Planitia has stayed put across Pluto’s equator. - esportiva bet: Space
During the awe of totality, scienti🌊s💛ts studied our planet’s reactions
Earth’s atmosphere was a big area of focus for scientists studying the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. - esportiva bet: Space
A new image reveals magnetᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚic fields around ou⭕r galaxy’s central black hole
Astronomers have captured polarized light coming from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, giving insight into its magnetic fields. - esportiva bet: Physics
A teeny device can measure su♓b𝐆tle shifts in Earth’s gravitational field
No bigger than a grain of rice, the heart of the instrument is the latest entrant in the quest to build ever tinier gravity-measuring devices. - esportiva bet: Space
Did the James Webb telescope🥂 ‘break the universe’? M❀aybe not
There’s no need for strange new physics to explain anomalously bright, massive galaxies seen by JWST, Hubble data suggest. - esportiva bet: Planetary Science
Odyss🌌eus’ histor𓆏ic moon mission comes to an end
Odysseus downloaded data from all payloads before going to sleep February 28. The cold lunar night proved fatal to efforts to reawaken the lunar lander. - esportiva bet: Astronomy
JWST spies hints of a neutron star left behind by supernova 1🍸987A
Signs of highly ionized atoms in dusty clouds at SN 1987A’s explosion site suggest a powerful source of X-rays — likely a neutron star — lurks within. - esportiva bet: Space
The first U.S. lunar lander since 1972 touches dꦓown on the moon
Odysseus, the first spacecraft to land on the moon since NASA’s Apollo 17, ended up tipped on its side but it appears to be operating OK. - esportiva bet: Planetary Science
NASA’s OS൲IRIS-REx nabbed over 120 grams of space rocks from asteroid Bennu
After being stymied by two stuck screws, NASA finally accessed a trove of Bennu asteroid bits. Mission scientist Harold Connolly tells what’s next. - esportiva bet: Planetary Science
Saturn’s🦩 🌳‘Death Star’ moon might contain a hidden ocean
A fresh look at Cassini data reveals slight changes in the tiny moon’s orbit that suggest the presence of a vast ocean beneath the satellite’s icy shell.
