NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough sets up optical coherence tomography hardware. Credit: NASA When astronauts began spending six months and more aboard the International Space Station, they started to notice changes…
Category: Planetary Science
NASA to launch SNIFS, the sun’s next trailblazing spectator
The reddish chromosphere is visible on the Sun’s right edge in this view of the Aug. 21, 2017, total solar eclipse from Madras, Oregon. Credit: NASA/Nat Gopalswamy July will see…
Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches meteoric $5.3 million at New York auction
A Martian meteorite, weighing 54.388 lbs. (24.67 kg), said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth, estimated at $2 – 4 million, is displayed at Sotheby’s, in New…
The Habitable Worlds Observatory could find more very massive stars
The Tarantula Nebula, which contains a cluster of VMSs. Credit – NASA, ESA, P Crowther. Credit: University of Sheffield Very massive stars (VMSs) have had a massive impact on the…
Research shows path toward protocells on Saturn’s moon Titan
Hydrocarbon lake and methane rain clouds on Titan. Credit: Jenny McElligott / eMITS NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn’s…
Astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary head back to Earth after private space station mission
This image provided by NASA and Axiom Space shows a SpaceX capsule undocking from the International Space Station, Monday July 14, 2025, targeting a splashdown in the Pacific, carrying visiting…
The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York
by DAVE COLLINS and JOSEPH B. FREDERICK A Martian meteorite, weighing 54.388 lbs. (24.67 kg), said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth, estimated at $2 – 4…
Dark matter could create dark dwarfs at the center of the Milky Way
An artist’s depiction of the relative sizes of the sun, a low mass star, a brown dwarf, Jupiter, and the Earth. Sizes are to scale, but distances are not. Credit:…
Scientific paper details what’s known about the third-ever interstellar object
The discovery images of 31/ATLAS. Credit: ATLAS Chile When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system,…
The Milky Way could be teeming with more satellite galaxies than previously thought
Credit: The Aquarius simulation, the Virgo Consortium/Dr Mark Lovell The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, according to…
