Tag: Space/Planetary Science

New planetary system offers glimpse into how planets evolveCredit: Illustration courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center HANOVER, N.H. - February ...

Credit: NASA / Lillian Gipson Imagine fleets of small aircraft able to vertically take off and land from helipads in ...

Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has far exceeded its planned mission duration, revealing that the ...

Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva With the help of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, and other ground-based ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann Globular clusters are extremely dense stellar systems, in which stars are packed closely together. They are ...

Credit: Image: Jean Favre CSCS. In the last 25 years, scientists have discovered over 4000 planets beyond the borders of ...

Remnants of planets with Earth-like crusts have been discovered in the atmospheres of four nearby white dwarf stars by University ...

A multidisciplinary team engineered a small, light, and low-cost deployable antenna for nano- and micro-satellite communicationsCredit: Pusan National University Modern ...

Study shows super-Earths are not leftovers of mini-Neptunes, challenging our understanding of planetary formationCredit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Mini-Neptunes and super-Earths up ...

New capabilities developed by an international team of astronomers make it possible to directly image planets that could potentially harbour ...

Are super-Earths capable of creating conditions that are hospitable for life to arise and thrive?Credit: Image is courtesy of Yingwei ...

A step in the search for life elsewhere in the galaxyCredit: Artist image by Eric Lundin; Z firing photo by ...

UC Riverside-led study finds extreme tidal mass loss in dwarf galaxies formed in a simulationCredit: Stan Lim, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, ...

Credit: Embry-Riddle/Jason Kadah Within the constellation Cygnus, an elderly star and its massive companion are having one last hurrah, flinging ...