Tag: Planets/Moons

Small telescope and inexpensive diffuser key to resultsCredit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard New detailed observations with NSF's NOIRLab facilities reveal a young ...

To truly understand what makes our planet capable of sustaining life, and to look for habitable worlds elsewhere, it is ...

New insight to inform future NASA missionsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Our solar system has one habitable planet -- Earth. A new study ...

Credit: Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar ...

Credit: Photo: Zhaohui Shang Have you ever wondered why stars twinkle? It's because turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere makes light ...

Credit: Zhaohui Shang au, could offer the clearest view on Earth of the stars at night, according to new research ...

Berkeley Lab scientists contribute to study exploring magnetization preserved for billions of years in meteorite samplesCredit: Carl Agee/Institute of Meteoritics, ...

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

Credit: Picture: NASA/JPL/USGS Years ago, planetary researchers discovered unusual circular structures on the surface of Venus when observing high-?resolution images ...

Credit: CNSA, CLEP, and AIR The unusual dark greenish and glistening "gel-like" substance in a crater on the far side ...

Credit: NAOJ Collaborative observations with NASA's New Horizons mission have been ongoing at the Subaru Telescope since May 2020. Hyper ...

KyotoU's new Seimei telescope detects enormous 'superflare' on nearby starCredit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Japan -- The cold, dark ...

Credit: Credit: Steven Burrows/JILA The outermost reaches of our solar system are a strange place--filled with dark and icy bodies ...

Credit: Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Mark A. Garlick Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new ...

Kyushu University research based on NASA InSight Martian lander seismometer data reveals different sources of different types and frequencies of ...

The surviving core of a gas giant has been discovered orbiting a distant star by University of Warwick astronomers, offering ...

The findings could help us understand the history of other bodies in our solar systemCredit: Weizmann Institute of Science The ...

Credit: Stefan Kraus Astronomers have made the first measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant 'super-Jupiter' planet, demonstrating a technique ...

A big step forward in estimating the chemical composition of the Earth's coreCredit: Assistant Professor Yoichi Nakajima Using the large ...

Systematic survey of 104 nearby stars turns up 25 dust disks with evidence of planetsCredit: UC Berkeley image by Thomas ...