Tag: Space/Planetary Science

Astronomers have found evidence that the first exoplanet that was identified transiting its star could have migrated to a close ...

The 2021 Drake Awards mark the first time this SETI Institute award has simultaneously recognized the achievements of two people, ...

For the first time, DES scientists can combine measurements of the distribution of matter, galaxies, and galaxy clusters to advance ...

Credit: Image Credit: AGU WASHINGTON--Raindrops on other planets and moons are close to the size of raindrops on Earth despite ...

SwSP-100 now available through the $6 billion Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV contractCredit: SwRI SAN ANTONIO -- April 6, 2021 -- ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is "seeing double." Peering back 10 billion years into ...

Credit: Kyoto Sangyo University The world's first ground-based observations of the bare nucleus of a comet nearing the end of ...

Credit: Skoltech Scientists from Russia and Germany studied the molecular composition of carbonaceous chondrites - the insoluble organic matter of ...

Credit: Image by Institute of High Energy Physics The Tibet ASγ experiment, a China-Japan joint research project on cosmic-ray observation, ...

Space scientists have found a new way to probe the internal structure of neutron stars, giving clues about the makeup ...

Credit: Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is on the brink of discovering the extent of the mess it ...

Record-breaking gamma rays bathe the Milky Way in an energetic hazeCredit: HEASARC / LAMBDA / NASA / GFSC An enormous ...

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the ...

Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut New observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) indicate that the rogue comet ...