Irregularly Shaped Boulder Rolls Down Martian Hill, Lands Upright
A newly released image from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an irregularly shaped boulder that apparently rolled down a hill on…
A newly released image from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an irregularly shaped boulder that apparently rolled down a hill on…
A newly released animated image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows methane clouds moving above the large methane sea known as Ligeia Mare on Saturn’s moon…
In a newly published study, scientists reveal that there is an extremely soft layer deep inside the Moon and that heat is effectively generated in…
A new study details the discovery of a Y dwarf (WISE J0304-2705) that may have spent much of its youth as hot as a star….
Using Keck II telescope, the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, and the SpeX near-infrared spectrometer on NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility, astronomers viewed three massive…
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover is approaching its first close look at bedrock that is part of Mount Sharp, approaching a geological unit that’s part of…
New research from UK Infra-Red Telescope reveals numerous unknown jets of gas from young stars and planetary nebulae and may prompt significant changes in the…
Using ALMA, astronomers have discovered wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in the binary system HK Tauri. Astronomers using the Atacama…
Scientists used data from NASA’s Messenger spacecraft to reveal how Mercury’s core is different from Earth’s, explaining why the planet has such a bizarre magnetic…
Using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, two newly published studies detail the discovery of 101 distinct geysers on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. Scientists using mission…
Scientists have made the most precise measurement ever of the radius of a planet outside our solar system, confirming Kepler-93b as a “super-Earth” that is…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal that three exoplanets that were thought to be ideal candidates for detecting water vapor in their atmospheres contain…
Scientists are taking a new approach in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, studying exoplanet atmospheres for signs of pollution. Humanity is on the threshold of…
Using Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope observations of 16 Cygni, astronomers discovered evidence of how giant planets like Jupiter form. One of the main models to form giant…
New measurements on the Chelyabinsk meteorite rule out the possibility for the Baptistina Asteroid Family being the source of the K/T impactor. Tucson, Arizona —…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is only a year away from Pluto. This new ScienceCast video previews what researchers may see when the spacecraft makes its…
Using new data from the Van Allen Probes, a newly published study reveals the first direct observation of two processes that, in a chain, cause…
With the help of an amateur astronomer, an international team of scientists has discovered a new and unusual exoplanet. Thiam Guan or ‘TG’ Tan is…