Juno Measures the Heat Below Io’s Restless Surface
Jupiter’s moon Io is a strange one. It’s the driest object in the Solar System, has the strongest…
Deep inside polar craters on Mercury, sunlight has never once fallen — and NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft confirmed in 2012 that those permanently shadowed floors hold ancient water ice, sitting metres from terrain hot enough to melt lead
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. At its equator in daytime, the surface can reach about…
How does a moon 1.4 billion kilometres from the Sun end up with rivers, rain and lakes, but not a single drop of water in any of them?
I had never noticed how completely I equated weather with water until I began reading about Titan. Rain…
Four dead stars have been confirmed within 65 light-years of Earth, hidden for decades in the glare of the brighter red dwarfs they orbit
Four white dwarfs, the burned-out cores left when Sun-like stars die, have been directly confirmed for the first…
SpaceX’s Starship megarocket makes the ‘softest splashdown’ ever after launching next-gen Starlink satellites in Flight 13 test (video)
SpaceX launched the world’s most powerful rocket on a critical 13th test flight late Friday, but there was…
Total Solar Eclipse Sets Up Stunning Perseid Meteor Shower Peak
Topline One of the rarest combinations of celestial events in years is now less than three weeks away.…
Astronomers may have detected an exomoon
Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have found evidence of a moon-sized companion far beyond our…
The ZWO Seestar S30 Pro delivers beautiful astro in minutes.
Smart telescopes like the Seestar S30 Pro have changed astrophotography and, arguably, urban astronomy. The Seestar S30 Pro…
Amendment 66: B.2 Heliophysics Foundational Research Step-2 Due Date Announced and Correction
B.2 Heliophysics Foundational Research (HFR) solicits investigations that advance the fundamental physical understanding of the Sun-Heliosphere-Planetary system. The…
Scientists discover the Sun contains 55% more silver than expected
Researchers at Uppsala University have determined that the Sun contains 55 percent more silver than earlier calculations suggested.…
SpaceX launches massive Starship rocket in first test flight since IPO
The SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy v3 Booster lift off on its 13th test flight from the SpaceX…
Elon Musk confirms former trillionaire status as SpaceX plunges 50%
On July 24, Elon Musk confirmed on X that he is now a former trillionaire. The tech tycoon’s…