Extreme Solar Events and the Search for Habitable Exoplanets
Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars outside the Solar System Some exoplanets are thought to have liquid water on their surface and therefore the potential…
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Astrophysicists Discover a Neutron Star With a Bizarre Magnetic Field
There’s Buried Treasure on Mars – Here’s NASA’s Treasure Map
Surprising Clues to Martian Climate Uncovered As NASA’s MAVEN Maps Winds in Mars’ Upper Atmosphere [Video]
NASA Selects Nightingale Crater on Bennu for Asteroid Sample Collection
Killer Electron Hot Spot Found in Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belts
A Galactic Dance 160 Million Light-Years Away
Astronomers Discover MAMBO-9, Most Distant Dusty Star-Forming Galaxy – “We Were in Doubt if It Was Real”
Mysterious Visitor From the Depths of Space Swings Past Sun
Dark Matter May Be Source of Mysterious Gamma Radiation in Center of Milky Way
An abundance of mysterious gamma radiation exists in the center of the Milky Way, called the Galactic Center GeV Excess. Previous research determined that this…
Newfound Martian Proton Aurora Can Help Track Mars’ Water Loss
A type of Martian aurora first identified by NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft in 2016 is actually the most common form of aurora occurring on the Red…
Short-Lived Light Sources Discovered in the Sky – Vanishing Stars and Failed Supernovas
A project lead by an international team of researchers uses publicly available data with images of the sky dating as far back as to the…
Water Erupts Through Fissures on Enceladus’ Icy Surface – New Research Reveals the Physics
How Enceladus Got Its Stripes New research reveals the physics governing the fissures through which ocean water erupts from the moon’s icy surface. Saturn’s icy…
NASA’s Return to Venus and What It Means for Earth [Video]
Sue Smrekar really wants to go back to Venus. In her office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the planetary scientist displays a…
Galactic Diversity Spotted In The Air Pump
NGC 3175 is located around 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Antlia (The Air Pump). The galaxy can be seen slicing across the…
MIT Physicists Believe There’s Dark Matter at the Center of the Milky Way
Is there dark matter at the center of the Milky Way? A new analysis puts dark matter back in the game as a possible source…
Many Exoplanets Have Water, but Usually Not Very Much
The most extensive survey of atmospheric chemical compositions of exoplanets to date has revealed trends that challenge current theories of planet formation and has implications…
Daring Rescue of Monumental Asteroid Mission – Here’s How Engineers Pulled It Off
On Friday, October 11, 2019, the OSIRIS-REx team should have been preparing to point their spacecraft cameras precisely over the asteroid Bennu to capture high-resolution…