The anatomy of a planet
ETH researchers analyse marsquakesCredit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Since early 2019, researchers have been recording and analysing marsquakes as part of ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
Mini radar could find water and habitable tunnels on the Moon or Mars
A miniature radar device that scans deep below ground is being developed to identify ice deposits and even hollowed out ...
Unravelling the knotty problem of the Sun’s activity
Credit: MacTaggart et al. A new approach to analysing the development of magnetic tangles on the Sun has led to ...
Spotted: An exoplanet with the potential to form moons
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Benisty et al. Cambridge, MA ¬- Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have helped ...
The weather forecast for Venus
Space-based infrared imaging reveals the nighttime weather on VenusCredit: © 2021 JAXA/Imamura et al. Little is known about the weather ...
Astrophysicist outlines plans for the gravitational wave observatory on the moon
Credit: Karan Jani THE IDEA Vanderbilt astrophysicist Karan Jani has led a series of studies that make the first case ...
From the Sun to the stars
A journey of exoplanet discovery begins as Penn State's NEID spectrometer starts its scientific missionCredit: Dani Zemba, Guðmundur Stefánsson, and ...
New method predicts ‘stealth’ solar storms before they wreak geomagnetic havoc on Earth
For the first time, stealth coronal mass ejections can be detected before they wreak havoc on Earth without the need ...
The origin of bifurcated current sheets explained
Credit: POSTECH A Korean research team has identified the origin of bifurcated current sheets, considered one of the most unsolved ...
Supermassive black holes put a brake on stellar births
Credit: NASA, ESA, K. Kuntz (JHU), F. Bresolin (University of Hawaii), J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Lab), J. Mould (NOAO), Y.-H. ...
RAS launches new multi-disciplinary journal
Credit: J. Tennyson The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is pleased to announce the launch of its first new journal in ...
Tail without a comet: the dusty remains of Comet ATLAS
Credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / D. Jewitt (UCLA) A serendipitous flythrough of the tail of a disintegrated comet ...
New sunspot catalogue to improve space weather predictions
Credit: Kanzelhöhe Observatory, Austria Scientists from the University of Graz, Kanzelhöhe Observatory, Skoltech, and the World Data Center SILSO at ...
EHT pinpoints dark heart of the nearest radio galaxy
Credit: Radboud University; CSIRO/ATNF/I.Feain et al., R.Morganti et al., N.Junkes et al.; ESO/WFI; MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A. Weiss et al.; NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Kraft et ...