Titan’s Landscape Resembles That of Mars, not Earth
New research from MIT shows that the origins of surface elevations on Mars and Titan are very different from that on Earth. The environment on…
New research from MIT shows that the origins of surface elevations on Mars and Titan are very different from that on Earth. The environment on…
NASA astronomers prepare for Juno’s fifth science flyby of Jupiter. On Thursday, May 18, at 11 p.m. PDT, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its fifth…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt. Cataloged as 2007 OR10, the…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has made the first complete millimeter-wavelength image of the ring of dusty debris…
NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission reveals a bizarre new type of motion exhibited by the high-energy electrons can damage satellites in orbit and trigger auroras. With…
A team of researchers has succeeded in producing large quantities of Zika viruses in the laboratory – a crucial prerequisite for the production of vaccines….
Scientists review the fundamental physical process behind space weather events that are linked to human activity and discusses the observations of their impacts. Our Cold…
A newly published study details the anthropogenic effects on the space environment, which started in the late 19th century and reached their peak in the…
A newly published study from the Smithsonian Institution and the Johns Hopkins University reveals that heavy rain on Mars reshaped the planet’s impact craters and…
A team of researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed an in vitro model of the human kidney glomerulus, which could…
This newly released ALMA image shows a newborn star enshrouded in dust. This intriguing image may look like a collection of colored blobs, but it…
On April 29th NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft successfully observed Ceres at opposition, taking images from a position exactly between the sun and Ceres’ surface. Mission specialists…
This NASA image of the day shows Saturn’s shadow as seen by the Cassini Spacecraft. The projection of Saturn’s shadow on the rings grows shorter…
This Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image shows a well-preserved landslide scarp and rocky deposit off the edge of a streamlined mesa in Simud Valles, a giant…
A newly published Harvard study on similar galaxies whose central active black hole nucleus is obscured has concluded that accreting streams of material into the…
By combining data from several telescopes, astronomers created this captivating new image of the Crab Nebula. The unusual image was produced by combining data from…
Astronomers have discovered a potential recoiling supermassive black hole (CXO J101527.2+625911). This recoiling black hole candidate is located about 3.9 billion light-years from Earth. Supermassive…
Using observations from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, a team of astronomers reveals that the distant planet HAT-P-26b has a primitive atmosphere composed almost…