Image of Pluto obtained by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby in July 2015, which reveals the smooth, nitrogen plains of Sputnik Planitia (heart-shaped region) and vast, water-ice mountain ranges.…
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India’s Sun probe reaches solar orbit
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain India’s solar observation mission on Saturday entered the Sun’s orbit after a four-month journey, the latest success for the space exploration ambitions of the world’s most…
Hubble observes a changing exoplanet atmosphere
An international team of astronomers has assembled and reprocessed observations of the exoplanet WASP-121 b that were collected with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in the years 2016, 2018 and…
New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like
Neptune is fondly known for being a rich blue and Uranus green – but a new study has revealed that the two ice giants are actually far closer in colour…
The most massive neutron stars probably have cores of quark matter
Illustration of a quark core in a neutron star. Credit: Jyrki Hokkanen, CSC – IT Center for Science Atoms are made of three things: protons, neutrons, and electrons. Electrons are…
Volcanism on Mars: Planet More Active than Previously Thought
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…
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…
