Voyager 2 Caught Uranus on a Bad Weather Day in 1986, Study Finds
When Voyager 2 made its historic flyby of Uranus in 1986, the spacecraft captured the best data humanity…
Time moves faster on Mars than on Earth, study finds
On Earth, knowing the time feels simple. Your phone pings the same second as a GPS satellite and…
NASA Selects 2 Instruments for Artemis IV Lunar Surface Science
NASA has selected two science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon during…
Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples
The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early…
How one image taken from 3.7 billion miles away proved Earth is a speck in space
Voyager 1’s photographs included Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. According to NASA’s website, ‘Mars was obscured by…
View Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Through NASA’s Multiple LensesÂ
Lee esta historia en español aquÃ. NASA is in the midst of an unprecedented solar system-wide observation campaign,…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope maps 400-light-year-distant planet in 3D, revealing heat so extreme it breaks water apart
An artistic depiction of the WASP-18b exoplanet (Image source: NASA) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has mapped the…
Eugene Shoemaker: The only human buried on the Moon, and why NASA honoured him |
Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Eugene Shoemaker holds a unique place in space history; he is the…
Surprise meteorite debris uncovered on Moon’s far side
Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have…
Scientists Just Detected a Long-Lost Planet ‘Hiding’ Inside Earth
If proto-Earth had all its parts and chemistry replaced to become the Earth we know today, can the…
Could humans build floating cities on Venus?
The dream of living on another planet has intrigued scientists, engineers, and explorers for a long time. Now,…
These alien planets are astronomers’ favourites: here’s why
Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting…