Tag: Planets/Moons

X-ray scattering enables closer scrutiny of the interior of planets and starsCredit: HZDR / Sahneweiß Recreating extreme conditions in the ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Several years ago, planetary scientist Lynnae Quick began to wonder whether any of the more than 4,000 known ...

There may be as many as one Earth-like planet for every five Sun-like stars in the Milky way Galaxy, according ...

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Scientists have found a way of measuring neutron lifetime from ...

Credit: David Catling/University of Washington Oxygen first accumulated in the Earth's atmosphere about 2.4 billion years ago, during the Great ...

Credit: Northrop Grumman To test the James Webb Space Telescope's readiness for its journey in space, technicians successfully commanded it ...

Credit: Denis Sergeev/ University of Exeter Scientists have expanded our understanding of potentially habitable planets orbiting distant stars by including ...

The study challenges a recently-emerged paradigm that magma chambers are huge masses of crystals with just a very small amount ...

Credit: NASA/GSFC/ASU In October 2015, a spectacular rockfall occurred in the Swiss Alps: in the late morning hours, a large, ...

Credit: University of Central Florida The 49ers who panned for gold during California's Gold Rush didn't really know where they ...

Credit: NASA/Goddard/MAVEN/CU Boulder/SVS/Cindy Starr Five years after NASA's MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has ...

Credit: © Bro et al./Nature Geoscience The surface of the planet Mars bears probable traces of 'sedimentary volcanism', a geological ...

Credit: Credits: ArianeSpace.com NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully folded and stowed into the same configuration it will ...

First scientific result by the new spectrograph on the Subaru telescopeCredit: NAOJ Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have determined that ...

Researchers simulate the core of Mars to investigate its composition and originCredit: CC-0 Earth-based experiments on iron-sulfur alloys thought to ...

These images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot were made using data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini ...

Galaxies such as our own Milky Way are more likely to harbor intelligent, technologically advanced civilizations, paper arguesCredit: Russell Cothren ...

Credit: Jacques Kluska et al. An international team of astronomers has captured fifteen images of the inner rims of planet-forming ...

Credit: NASA NASA hasn't measured moonquakes since Apollo astronauts deployed a handful of measuring stations at various locations on the ...

First of its kind experiment uses diamond anvils to simulate the Earth's coreCredit: © 2020 Kelvinsong - CC BY-SA 3.0 ...