NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope clears critical sunshield deployment testing
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn The sunshield for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed a test critical to preparing the observatory ...
Tag: Planets/Moons
University of Hawaii team unravels origin, chemical makeup of Titan’s dunes
Credit: University of Hawaii A team led by a University of Hawaii at Manoa chemistry professor and researcher has been ...
New research sheds light on the ages of lunar ice deposits
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon's south ...
Physicists have found a way to ‘hear’ dark matter
Credit: Illustration: Alexander Millar/Stockholm University Physicists at Stockholm University and the Max Planck Institute for Physics have turned to plasmas ...
Artemis, meet ARTEMIS: Pursuing Sun science at the moon
Credit: E. Masongsong, UCLA EPSS By 2024, NASA will land astronauts, including the first woman and next man, on the ...
Scientists of the Samara Polytech sinter lunar soil in a microwave
Making bricks from a lunar soil simulator takes 40 minutesCredit: @SamaraPolytech A team of scientists led by an engineer, candidate ...
Teams of mobile 3D printing robots could fix bridges on Earth and build them to Mars
Credit: NYU Tandon BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, October 2, 2019 - Commercial 3D printing -- or additive manufacturing (AM) -- ...
Telescope seeking new planets launches via football field-sized balloon
Instrument designed and built by UMass Lowell targets Earth-like objects in space hidden by stars' glareCredit: Photo credit: NASA LOWELL, ...
Many gas giant exoplanets waiting to be discovered
There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missionsCredit: Alan Boss Washington, ...
A planet that should not exist
Credit: © CARMENES/RenderArea/J. Bollaín/C. Gallego The red dwarf GJ 3512 is located 30 light-years from us. Although the star is ...
New SwRI study argues that Saturn’s rings are actually not young
Research of Cassini data suggests icy rings are as old as the solar system itselfCredit: NASA SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. ...
New space discovery sheds light on how planets form
A young planet and a bright star offer glimpses into the past and futureCredit: Elisabeth Newton HANOVER, N.H. - July ...
Three Mars rovers set to blast off in 2020
Since ancient times, the Red Planet has captured the imaginations of scientists, writers and the general public. In July 2020, ...
Astronomers map vast void in our cosmic neighborhood
Credit: UH An astronomer from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy and an international team published a new study ...