Tag: Planets/Moons

Credit: Picture: NASA/JPL/USGS Years ago, planetary researchers discovered unusual circular structures on the surface of Venus when observing high-?resolution images ...

Credit: CNSA, CLEP, and AIR The unusual dark greenish and glistening "gel-like" substance in a crater on the far side ...

Credit: NAOJ Collaborative observations with NASA's New Horizons mission have been ongoing at the Subaru Telescope since May 2020. Hyper ...

KyotoU's new Seimei telescope detects enormous 'superflare' on nearby starCredit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Japan -- The cold, dark ...

Credit: Credit: Steven Burrows/JILA The outermost reaches of our solar system are a strange place--filled with dark and icy bodies ...

Credit: Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Mark A. Garlick Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new ...

Kyushu University research based on NASA InSight Martian lander seismometer data reveals different sources of different types and frequencies of ...

The surviving core of a gas giant has been discovered orbiting a distant star by University of Warwick astronomers, offering ...

The findings could help us understand the history of other bodies in our solar systemCredit: Weizmann Institute of Science The ...

Credit: Stefan Kraus Astronomers have made the first measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant 'super-Jupiter' planet, demonstrating a technique ...

A big step forward in estimating the chemical composition of the Earth's coreCredit: Assistant Professor Yoichi Nakajima Using the large ...

Systematic survey of 104 nearby stars turns up 25 dust disks with evidence of planetsCredit: UC Berkeley image by Thomas ...

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 ...