NASA’s TESS creates a cosmic vista of the northern sky
Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (USRA) Familiar stars shine, nebulae glow, and nearby galaxies tantalize in a new panorama of ...
Tag: Planets/Moons
On the trail of causes of radiation events during space flight
Lessons from conjunction observations with ISS detectors and the Arase satelliteCredit: Ryuho Kataoka et al., 2020 Scientists have made significant ...
Venus might be habitable today, if not for Jupiter
Study shows destabilizing effect of the giant gas planetCredit: JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic Venus might not ...
Remnants of an ancient asteroid shed new light on the early solar system
Credit: Modified after Koike et al. (2020) EPSL Researchers have shaken up a once accepted timeline for cataclysmic events in ...
CMU’s MoonRanger will search for water at moon’s south pole
Small, speedy rover completes preliminary design reviewCredit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH -- MoonRanger, a small robotic rover being developed by ...
WPI math professor verifies centuries-old conjecture about formation of the solar system
Findings have implications for understanding our place in the universeCredit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute/Matthew Burgos Worcester, Mass. - Sept. 23, 2020 ...
NRAO joins space mission to the far side of the moon to explore the early universe
Spacecraft DAPPER will study "dark ages" of the universe in radio wavesCredit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Sophia Dagnello The National Radio Astronomy Observatory ...
New technology is a “science multiplier” for astronomy
Credit: NASA Federal funding of new technology is crucial for astronomy, according to results of a study released Sept. 21 ...
Hubble captures crisp new portrait of Jupiter’s storms
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL team ...
How 13 billion years of cosmic evolution has ultimately led to intelligent life
New book illustrates up-to-date findings in cosmology and exobiologyCredit: World Scientific In March 1995, Ben Zuckerman and Matt Malkan hosted ...
SwRI scientist searches for stellar phosphorus to find potentially habitable exoplanets
Stellar chemical compositions used as proxy for potentially habitable systemsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 16, 2020 -- A Southwest ...
Possible marker of life spotted on venus
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/L. Calçada & NASA/JPL/Caltech "When we got the first hints of phosphine in Venus's spectrum, it was a ...
Hints of life on Venus
Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser / L. Calçada & NASA / JPL / Caltech An international team of astronomers, led ...
Surprise on Mars
Credit: NASA / JPL An observer standing on Mars would see the planet's moon Phobos cross the sky from west ...