Name an exoplanet
IAU100 NameExoWorlds gives every country in the world the opportunity to name an exoplanet and its host starCredit: IAU/L. Calçada ...
Tag: Planets/Moons
New mineral classification system captures Earth’s complex past
Could a new classification system that accounts for minerals' distinct journeys help us better understand mineralogy as a process of ...
The ‘Forbidden’ planet has been found in the ‘Neptunian Desert’
Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick A Neptunian planet has been found in what should be a 'Neptunian Desert' by telescopes ...
Comet inspires chemistry for making breathable oxygen on Mars
Reaction turns carbon dioxide into molecular oxygenCredit: Caltech Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators ...
Meteor magnets in outer space
UCR-led study finds elusive giant planetsCredit: (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Astronomers believe planets like Jupiter shield us from space objects that would otherwise ...
On Mars, sands shift to a different drum
In the most detailed analysis of how sands move around on Mars, a team of planetary scientists led by the ...
Russian scientists discover one of the mechanisms of water formation on the moon
The discovery will help analyse the processes occurring near the lunar surface The results of recent study conducted by the ...
New insights about carbon and ice could clarify inner workings of Earth, other planets
Credit: Natalia Solomatova/École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Most people behave differently when under extreme pressure. Carbon and ice are no ...
Neptune’s moon Triton fosters rare icy union
Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL Astronomers using the Gemini Observatory explore Neptune's largest moon Triton and observe, for the first time beyond ...
Three exocomets discovered around the star Beta Pictoris
Credit: Michaela Pink Just about a year after the launch of the NASA mission TESS, the first three comets orbiting ...
Water formation on the Moon demonstrated by UH Manoa scientists
Credit: University of Hawaii at Manoa For the first time, a cross-disciplinary study has shown chemical, physical, and material evidence ...
NAM 2019: First media announcement
Around 500 astronomers and space scientists will gather at Lancaster University, from 30 June - 4 July, for the Royal ...
Sedimentary, dear Johnson: Is NASA looking at the wrong rocks for clues to Martian life?
Scientists at the Swedish Museum of Natural History have begun compiling an atlas of fossils in volcanic rock, to guide ...
Small, hardy planets most likely to survive death of their stars
Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding being crushed and swallowed up when their ...