University of Arizona researchers reconstructed lava flows from spacecraft images and radar to better understand Mars‘ surprisingly turbulent history. This image taken by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter…
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Rocket carrying American lunar lander rolls to launchpad
This image released by NASA shows Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander being encapsulated in the payload fairing, or nose cone, of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. Final preparations were underway Friday…
The Day the Solar Wind Died on Mars
Researchers led by the University of Iowa explain the solar wind’s disappearance on the red planet. The solar wind is a continuous, million-miles-per-hour blast of charged particles from the sun…
New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like
Voyager 2/ISS images of Uranus and Neptune released shortly after the Voyager 2 flybys in 1986 and 1989, respectively, compared with a reprocessing of the individual filter images in this…
ALMA telescope discovers hidden orbit secrets
The ALMA telescope shows how the gas around the dying star in W Aquilae has been shaped by interactions with a sunlike companion star. Both stars are located in the…
After all of this time searching for aliens, are we stuck with the zoo hypothesis?
The Karl Jansky Very Large Array at night, with the Milky Way visible in the sky. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF; J. Hellerman In 1950, during a lunchtime conversation with colleagues at the…
Meet the Infrared Telescopes That Paved the Way for NASA’s Webb
The Webb telescope has opened a new window into the universe, but it builds on missions going back 40 years, including Spitzer and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite. Scientists have been…
A New Way to Characterize Habitable Planets
For decades, science fiction authors have imagined scenarios in which life thrives on the harsh surfaces of Mars or our Moon, or in the oceans below the icy surfaces of…
Rare Six-Planet Star System Discovery is Music to Astronomers’ Ears
A rare star system with six exoplanets has been discovered with an architecture unchanged for billions of years. Exoplanet – illustrative photo. Image credit: Pixabay (Free Pixabay license) The star,…
