Why Neptune has the fastest winds in he solar system despite receiving 900 times less sunlight than Earth |
At first glance, Neptune seems like the last place where violent weather should thrive. The ice giant circles…
James Webb Telescope Discovers Hidden Giant Planet in Famous Star System
This artist’s concept shows the Beta Pictoris system with the discovered giant exoplanet Beta Pictoris d at the…
NISAR Satellite Reveals Hummingbird Shape Under Antarctic Ice
PASADENA – The shape emerged slowly from the radar data: first a suggestion of curving wings, then a…
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,…
50 Years Later: The First Photo Ever Taken on Mars
Viking 1’s first photo, and the first photo ever taken on the surface of Mars. This week marked…
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…
2 Missions, 3 Launches, and Up to $300 Million for Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) is on a roll — not that you could tell from the stock price.…
Awais Ahmed: This Karnataka boy grew up in a village without the internet; today, his space-tech startup works with NASA: What Pixxel CEO Awais Ahmed’s parents invested in |
Pixxel co-founder Awais Ahmed with his parents. (Image courtesy: The Hindu) Karnataka’s Awais Ahmed is now emerging as…
NASA astronaut grows strange space crystals on International Space Station
Don Pettit, a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station, conducted a science experiment growing potassium chloride crystals.…
Innovaccer’s CEO walked away from Disney and NASA. Now, the startup has crossed $200 million in ARR
Innovacer CEO Abhinav Shashank was 26 when he walked away from paying customers like Disney and NASA to…
Hidden planet finally revealed after years of cosmic hide-and-seek
The luminous, hot star Wolf-Rayet 124 (WR 124) is prominent at the center of the James Webb Space…
NASA study reveals longtime near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet
Asteroid 2026 JH2 was recently discovered by scientists and it’s making an extremely close approach to Earth on…