Tag: Planets/Moons

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 ...