Tag: Planets/Moons

Australian scientists' invention will decipher the 'twinkle' of starsCredit: NASA. Australian scientists have developed a new type of sensor to ...

Blakesley Burkhart is working to gain a better grasp of how gas and dust become stars and planetsCredit: Courtesy of ...

Blinding glare of quasars can be overcomeCredit: NASA Two new studies from the University of Melbourne will help the largest, ...

Credit: ZHANG Xuan from PMO The small Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth, encountered by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on Jan ...

Credit: University of Central Florida To understand the significance of the Spitzer Space Telescope on the understanding of our solar ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STSci) WASP-121b is an exoplanet located 850 light years from Earth, orbiting its star ...

Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (USRA) Familiar stars shine, nebulae glow, and nearby galaxies tantalize in a new panorama of ...

Lessons from conjunction observations with ISS detectors and the Arase satelliteCredit: Ryuho Kataoka et al., 2020 Scientists have made significant ...

Study shows destabilizing effect of the giant gas planetCredit: JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic Venus might not ...

Credit: Modified after Koike et al. (2020) EPSL Researchers have shaken up a once accepted timeline for cataclysmic events in ...

Small, speedy rover completes preliminary design reviewCredit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH -- MoonRanger, a small robotic rover being developed by ...

Findings have implications for understanding our place in the universeCredit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute/Matthew Burgos Worcester, Mass. - Sept. 23, 2020 ...

Spacecraft DAPPER will study "dark ages" of the universe in radio wavesCredit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Sophia Dagnello The National Radio Astronomy Observatory ...

Credit: NASA Federal funding of new technology is crucial for astronomy, according to results of a study released Sept. 21 ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL team ...

New book illustrates up-to-date findings in cosmology and exobiologyCredit: World Scientific In March 1995, Ben Zuckerman and Matt Malkan hosted ...

Stellar chemical compositions used as proxy for potentially habitable systemsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 16, 2020 -- A Southwest ...

Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/L. Calçada & NASA/JPL/Caltech "When we got the first hints of phosphine in Venus's spectrum, it was a ...

Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser / L. Calçada & NASA / JPL / Caltech An international team of astronomers, led ...

Credit: NASA / JPL An observer standing on Mars would see the planet's moon Phobos cross the sky from west ...