The space rock that hit the moon at 61,000 kilometers an hour
Credit: J. M. Madiedo / MIDAS Observers watching January's total eclipse of the Moon saw a rare event, a short-lived ...
Tag: Planets/Moons
Magma is the key to the moon’s makeup
Credit: Hosono, Karato, Makino & Saitoh New Haven, Conn. - For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how ...
Cosmic dust reveals new insights on the formation of solar system
'One of the greatest curiosities is how the universe was formed and how life started. And this weirdo particle showed ...
What a dying star’s ashes tell us about the birth of our solar system
A dust grain forged in a stellar explosion predating our solar system reveals new insights about how stars end their ...
NASA winner demos red berries on the red planet
Mars greenhouse design provides food and exercise for astronautsCredit: Image courtesy of: Thayer School of Engineering HANOVER, N.H. - April ...
Next-generation NASA instrument advanced to study the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune
Credit: NASA Much has changed technologically since NASA's Galileo mission dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere to investigate, among other ...
Rewriting the textbook on fossil fuels: New technologies help unravel nature’s methane recipes
Not all methane originated in buried, decayed remains of ancient life; some deep hydrocarbons aren't conventional 'fossil fuels' as popularly ...
A closer look at Mercury’s spin and gravity reveals the planet’s inner solid core
Credit: Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington How do you explore the interior of a planet ...
TESS discovers its first Earth-sized planet
Orbiting a nearby star, the new planet is the smallest identified so far by the TESS mission NASA's Transiting Exoplanet ...
Meteoroid strikes eject precious water from moon
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, ...
UTSA tapped by NASA to help build homes on the moon and Mars
Credit: Photo courtesy of UTSA (San Antonio, Apr. 10, 2019) -- The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has ...
New model accurately predicts harmful space weather
Predicting 'killer' electrons in the Earth's outer radiation belt protects spacecraftCredit: NASA's Conceptual Image Lab/Walt Feimer LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April ...
Life could be evolving right now on nearest exoplanets
ITHACA, N.Y. - Rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting our closest stars could host life, according to a new study that raises ...
The research of Samara scientists will help to explain how building material for planets appears in the universe
The team of scientists proposed a sequence of transformations starting from a chemical compound -- a triphenylene molecule -- to ...
New book about the IAU published
Credit: Springer/IAU The International Astronomical Union (IAU) was founded in 1919, in the wake of the First World War, together ...
Sun, moon and sea as part of a ‘seismic probe’
Tides and surf can be used for non-destructive analysis of subsurface; study highlighted by American Physical SocietyCredit: C. Sens-Schönfelder, GFZ ...
Stunning discovery offers glimpse of minutes following ‘dinosaur-killer’ Chicxulub impact
LAWRENCE -- A study to be published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a scientific ...
Data flows from NASA’s TESS Mission, leads to discovery of Saturn-sized planet
Credit: Illustration by Gabriel Perez Diaz, Instituto de AstrofÃsica de Canarias AMES, Iowa - Astronomers who study stars are providing ...
GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging
Cutting-edge VLTI instrument reveals details of a storm-wracked exoplanet using optical interferometryCredit: ESO/L. Calçada The GRAVITY instrument on ESO's Very ...
Earth’s deep mantle flows dynamically
As ancient ocean floors plunge over 1,000 km into the Earth's deep interior, they cause hot rock in the lower ...
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