Tag: Space/Planetary Science

Credit: University of Illinois Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Lara Waldrop, assistant professor electrical and computer engineering at the ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Joe Nuth loves dust. Among astronomers, that puts him in a minority. "The traditional astronomers -- the people ...

Twin baby stars grow amongst a twisting network of gas and dustCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Alves et al. The two baby ...

Collaboration will enable pinpointing origin of gravitational-wave eventsCredit: ICRR The world's three principal gravitational-wave detectors -- LIGO in the U.S., ...

Credit: Joshua Borrow using C-EAGLE Joshua Borrow using C-EAGLE Joshua Borrow using C-EAGLE An international group of scientists led by ...

Credit: Dougal Mackey, ANU Astronomers have pieced together the cannibalistic past of our neighbouring large galaxy Andromeda, which has now ...

Two ancient migration events in the Andromeda Galaxy: Dynamical footprints uncovered by galactic archaeologists in galaxy next doorCredit: Australian National ...

Making bricks from a lunar soil simulator takes 40 minutesCredit: @SamaraPolytech A team of scientists led by an engineer, candidate ...

Major NSF astronomy initiative starts Oct. 1, 2019Credit: National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/AURA/NSF/P. Marenfeld On 1 October 2019, the nighttime ...

Instrument designed and built by UMass Lowell targets Earth-like objects in space hidden by stars' glareCredit: Photo credit: NASA LOWELL, ...

Scientists update estimates of Earth's immense interior carbon reservoirs, and how much carbon Deep Earth naturally swallows and exhalesGas sampling ...

Credit: NAOJ/Harikane et al. An international team of astronomers with participation by researchers from DAWN, Niels Bohr Institute, University of ...

Credit: Yale University New Haven, Conn. - Some relationships are written in the stars. That's definitely the case for supermassive ...

There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missionsCredit: Alan Boss Washington, ...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2019 --There are things you can do right now to help our ...

Credit: NAOJ/Harikane et al. Using the Subaru, Keck, and Gemini Telescopes, an international team of astronomers has discovered a collection ...

Credit: OzGrav, Swinburne University of Technology. Astronomers studying the outskirts of a distant galaxy have discovered the galaxy sits in ...

Credit: © CARMENES/RenderArea/J. Bollaín/C. Gallego The red dwarf GJ 3512 is located 30 light-years from us. Although the star is ...

Credit: Illustration by Robin Dienel courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the ...

Catching such a rare event in action will help astronomers understand these mysterious phenomenaCredit: Illustration is by Robin Dienel, courtesy ...