Cassini Flyby Provides New Close-Up of Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
A new close-up of Saturn’s moon Enceladus from the Cassini Spacecraft. This unprocessed “raw” image of Saturn’s icy, geologically active moon Enceladus was acquired by…
A new close-up of Saturn’s moon Enceladus from the Cassini Spacecraft. This unprocessed “raw” image of Saturn’s icy, geologically active moon Enceladus was acquired by…
Just in time for Halloween, a large space rock that bears an eerie resemblance to a skull will zip past Earth this weekend. Scientists observing…
Using a highly porous graphene electrode, scientists have developed a lab-based demonstrator of a lithium-oxygen battery which has higher capacity, increased energy efficiency, and improved…
Scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveal that the 2015 Antarctic ozone hole area was larger and formed later than in…
Astronomers have discovered a striking contrast between one of the fresh craters on Pluto’s largest moon Charon and a neighboring crater dotting the moon’s Pluto-facing…
This newly released image from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft shows the complete image of Pluto’s crescent. In September, the New Horizons team released a stunning…
Neuroscientists from MIT have identified the region of the brain that holds objects in memory until they are spotted. Imagine you are looking for your…
Data from NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft show that the direction of the magnetic field has been slowly turning ever since the spacecraft crossed into interstellar…
A newly published study from the University of Edinburgh shows that the movement of the southwest portion of the Greenland Ice Sheet that terminates on…
The Cassini Spacecraft has completed the deepest-ever dive through the icy plume of Enceladus. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its close flyby of Saturn’s moon…
A new study suggests that compounds that might be indicative of life may be located within the scarred, jumbled areas that make up Europa’s so-called…
Scientists from UCLA have identified a molecule (GDF10) that signals brain tissue to form new connections after a stroke. The finding could eventually lead to…
For the first time, scientists from MIT have found a way to control the boiling process. The system could improve the efficiency of electric power…
New observations from NASA’s Swift and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, suggest that supermassive black holes send out beams of X-rays when their surrounding coronas…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft is about to make a daring plunge through one of the plumes emerging from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Cassini was launched in 1997…
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first confirmed planet around a sun-like star, more than 60 leaders in the field of exoplanet observations…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is set to take the deepest dive ever through the plume of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will sample the ocean…
The Dawn Spacecraft begins its fourth and final science orbit at dwarf planet Ceres. Many hope this low-altitude mapping orbit will provide more information about…