Tag: Planets/Moons

Kuiper Belt object orientations support streaming instability hypothesisCredit: HST/StSci/SwRI/Simon Porter SAN ANTONIO -- June 25, 2019 -- A Southwest Research ...

Machine learning tool allows scientists to search stellar data for likely exoplanet host starsCredit: ESO/M. Kornmesser SAN ANTONIO -- June ...

Astronomy bot speeds up search for Jupiter's twinsCredit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have a new tool in their search for extraterrestrial ...

Scientists use sophisticated computer simulations and observations of trans-Neptunian objects to understand the formation of the solar systemCredit: NASA/APL/SwRI/ESA/STScI Using ...

Agency funds 5-year effort to understand the potential for life in outer solar system and establishes a new Network for ...

New research presented at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference in Bellevue, Wa.Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute BELLEVUE, ...

Credit: Graphic courtesy of PUNCH Team/Southwest Research Institute WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers partnered with Southwest Research Institute ...

Credit: Krag Beverly The total solar eclipse's swath across Wyoming and the United States in August 2017 provided an opportunity ...

The Comet Interceptor space mission led by UCL has been selected as the first €150M mission for the European Space ...

International research team discovers two new Earth-like planets near Teegarden's starCredit: University of Göttingen, Institute for Astrophysics An international research ...

Credit: Simone Marchi The Sun is why we're here. It's also why Martians or Venusians are not. When the Sun ...

Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's spacecraft element, which consists of the observatory's spacecraft bus and the sunshield, ...

New funding will advance technology for eventual moon missionCredit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH--NASA has approved a $2 million research initiative ...

Researchers are offering glimpses into the nature and composition of Saturn's legendary rings by using data from some of the ...

How did the Red Planet get all of its clouds? CU Boulder researchers may have discovered the secret: just add ...

That gold on your ring finger is stellar - and not just in a complimentary way. In a finding that ...

Few sun-like stars have these massive planets, making our sun unusualCredit: GPIES team, with animation by Paul Kalas, UC Berkeley. ...

Finding prompts a rethinking of the icy moon's subsurface ocean A familiar ingredient has been hiding in plain sight on ...

Researchers at CU Boulder have discovered hints that humanity's favorite star may have a dual personality, with intriguing discrepancies in ...

Astronomers probing the edges of the Milky Way have in recent years observed some of the most brilliant pyrotechnic displays ...