NASA’s Voyager Probes: See the Best Photos As 49-Year Trek Nears End
Voyager 2, a pioneer in outer solar system exploration, left Earth for interstellar space 49 years ago, on…
Everything you need to know about how to see the solar eclipse next week
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE celestial event will be visible across Ireland on 12 August: a near-total eclipse of the…
Astronomers Discover First-Ever Three-Lobed Asteroid
High-resolution images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Large Binocular Telescope reveal that the E-type asteroid (44)…
Chinese rocket scientists find ‘most effective’ way to nuke a doomsday asteroid
Chinese researchers believe they may have found the most effective way to destroy or deflect a large, Earth-threatening…
Rocks From the Moon’s Far Side Are Rewriting Lunar History
Moon rocks returned from a rarely sampled region are offering a new view of the Solar System’s turbulent…
Giant Rift Valleys Hint Venus is Still Tectonically Active
New 3D computer simulations from ETH Zurich show that young rift flanks on Venus stay tall and steep,…
Juno’s Microwave Vision Peers beneath Surface of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io
New data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft show temperatures spike more than 20 degrees Celsius just a few meters…
Saturn’s moon Titan has rivers, lakes and rainfall without a single drop of water, and scientists know why |
At first glance, Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, looks remarkably like Earth. Its surface is covered by winding rivers,…
Space Weather May Warp Martian Weather during Dust Storms, Planetary Scientists Suggest
Planetary researchers have found the first evidence that bursts of energetic particles from the Sun could warm the…
One Asteroid Collision May Have Rocked Earth, Mars, and the Moon
A Southwest Research Institute-led study has connected a specific asteroid collision in the main belt to an inner-solar-system-wide…
Astronomers Found the Sun’s Missing Silver Hiding in Plain Sight
Theoretically, the Sun shares its chemical origins with meteorites that are billions of years old. But for decades,…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up Nearly 6 Billion Miles from Earth After Almost a Year in Hibernation
NEED TO KNOW The spacecraft emerged from a 321-day hibernation 5.9 billion miles from Earth, with signals taking…