Tag: Space/Planetary Science

Astronomers from the University of Warwick have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours, the shortest ...

Credit: Elser Lab/ASU The Cuatro Cienegas Basin, located in Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico, was once a shallow sea that became ...

Credit: NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory/ AIA A new study led by the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa has helped ...

Credit: ESO/M. Montargès et al. Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, a ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Planetary scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the secrets of the atmosphere of ...

Thermodynamic properties of hydroxylammonium nitrate-based electric solid propellant plasmaCredit: NASA Electric solid propellants are being explored as a safer option ...

A sizable international team published findings about the discovery of a new binary star in Astronomy & AstrophysicsCredit: Warsaw University ...

Credit: NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/CTIO/AURA/DELVE In June 2019, the International Astronomical Union expressed concern about the negative impact ...

Brown dwarfs traversing space together, but separated by billions of miles, puzzle scientistsCredit: William Pendrill Citizen scientists have uncovered a ...

Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy A team of scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory found ...

Credit: (Image Courtesy of ESA/ATG Medialab) WASHINGTON -- The Solar Orbiter mission will use a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-designed and ...

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation today announced 41 finalists for the 2020 Hertz Fellowship in applied science, mathematics, and ...

A study by the University of Bonn simulates a universe in which Newton's laws are only valid to a limited ...

Credit: Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - The so-called "Cocoon Galaxy" not only has a unique shape, ...

XMM-2599 lived fast and died young, says UC Riverside-led international teamCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- An international ...

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Olofsson et al. Acknowledgement: Robert Cumming Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO ...

Research led by Laura Sales will shed light on the dark matter content of dwarf galaxiesCredit: Stan Lim, UC Riverside. ...

Credit: NASA DURHAM, N.H.-- Scientists at the University of New Hampshire have unlocked one of the mysteries of how particles ...

Credit: NASA Usually, the Earth's magnetic field shields us from the misadventures of our nearest star, the mighty sun. But ...

Credit: Original credit: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL, NASA, and ESA Credit: Kavli IPMU - Kavli IPMU modified this figure based on the ...