Tag: Space/Planetary Science

University of Arkansas physics professor Daniel Kennefick writes about the 1919 eclipse, which provided the data to confirm the revolutionary ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI This incredible image of the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula was taken to mark the NASA/ESA ...

Vacuum Extinguish Method (VEM): A fire extinguisher in space environmentsCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. A ...

Credit: Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington How do you explore the interior of a planet ...

A stellar flare 10 times more powerful than anything seen on our Sun has burst from an ultracool star almost ...

Two dense, city-sized stars collided in a galaxy far, far away; the resulting X-rays give UNLV's Bing Zhang and international ...

The trick is spotting the near-Earth objects first, according to NASA researchers presenting at the 2019 APS April meeting in ...

They may be small, but CubeSats are mighty when it comes to affordably obtaining scientific data in spaceCredit: MinXSS Team ...

Orbiting a nearby star, the new planet is the smallest identified so far by the TESS mission NASA's Transiting Exoplanet ...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, ...

86 grants will support scientific innovation U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry today announced that the Department of Energy will award ...

New technique doubles resolution of angular size measurementsCredit: DESY, Lucid Berlin Using the unique capabilities of telescopes specialised on cosmic ...

Credit: Video by Sasa Sefer Australia has today announced the biggest investment in space R&D in the country's history, with ...

Wormholes can exist -- but don't pack your bags just yet, said Harvard physicist presenting at the 2019 APS April ...