NASA’s Moon Orbiter Spots New, ‘Once-in-Century’ Moon Crater
It started as a routine data-quality check. But as Robert Wagner, a scientist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter…
Celebrate International Observe the Moon Night with NASA
In April, the world watched as four humans circled the Moon for the first time in over 50…
Bangkok Post – Venus may have swallowed its moon
Planet’s slow rotation spells doom for any natural satellite, astrophysicist says Data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer…
Rogue Planets Challenge Our Assumptions About Life in the Universe
In the early 2000s, scientists were scanning the skies for faint objects when they first began to come…
Earth May Not Be a Cosmic Fluke, New Simulations Suggest
This artist’s impression shows the temperate planet Ross 128 b, with its red dwarf parent star in the…
Mercury Isn’t What Scientists Thought: New Study Reveals a Surprisingly Different Surface
Mercury may preserve evidence of a hotter, more extreme interior than scientists once expected. Credit: Shutterstock From tiny…
Hidden Deep Beneath Mars, Scientists Find Evidence of a Vast Magmatic System
Seismic evidence suggests Mars may have developed vast, long-lived magmatic systems that repeatedly reshaped its crust despite lacking…
WHAT’S UP IN THE SKY: When dust gets in your skies | Astronomy
Today: Every star rotates. Our Sun takes a little less than one Earth month to rotate once on…
Lunar legacy: U of A researchers building moon-bound camera
Even the smallest of shadows on the moon’s surface can harbor water ice and other chemical compounds, known…
NASA Completes Astronaut-Deployed Science Instrument for Lunar Surface
NASA has declared “wrenches down” on the first completed payload designed for Artemis astronauts to deploy on the…
Pluto’s Famous Glacial Heart Has Been Secretly Leaking Liquid Nitrogen
Odd surface patterns on Pluto hinted to astronomers that, sometime in the past—quite possibly not that long ago—liquid…
Perseverance Finds Organic Carbon Preserved Just Beneath the Martian Surface
The Perseverance rover on Mars inspects a rock dubbed Cheyava Falls with the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman…