This image taken from video provided by NASA TV shows the capsule released by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft lying on the surface near the parachute after landing to Earth, Sunday Sept.…
Category: Planetary Science
Largest asteroid sample ever collected is coming down to Earth
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Chunks of asteroid that could tell us about the earliest days of the 4.5 billion-year-old solar system and the possible origins of water on our planet…
As space exploration and colonization expand, off-Earth resources will create a booming market
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The drive to explore deeper into space and establish colonies on other planets has intensified over the last decade, and with it the importance of space…
Astronomers discover newborn galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope
A look through time with the James Webb Space Telescope. The big galaxy in the foreground is named LEDA 2046648, and is seen just over a billion years back in…
Firefoxes and whale spouts light up Earth’s shield
Credit: All-sky camera, Kiruna Atmospheric and Geophysical Observatory (KAGO) within the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF). Data provided as part of ESA’s Space Weather Service Network Did you know…
NASA’s VERITAS science team studies volcanic Iceland
Members of the VERITAS science team descend a slope to new rock formed from a recent flow of lava during their Iceland field campaign in early August. The team used…
If astronomers see these chemicals in a planet’s atmosphere, there’s likely an advanced civilization there
Artist rendition of a potential water-world exoplanet that might support advanced civilizations. Such life could advertise its existence via technosignatures from industrial or other activities. Credit: ESA / Hubble /…
NASA joins the still controversial search for UFOs
Reports of UAPs — unidentified anomalous phenomena — have long fascinated the public but were historically shunned by mainstream science. NASA on Thursday officially joined the search for UFOs—but reflecting…
Signs of life? Why astronomers are excited about CO2 and methane in the atmosphere of an alien world
Credit: NASA / CSA / ESA / J. Olmsted (STScI) / Science: N. Madhusudhan (Cambridge University) Are we alone? This question is nearly as old as humanity itself. Today, this…
