SwRI instruments aboard Rosetta help detect unexpected ultraviolet aurora at a comet Data from Southwest Research Institute-led instruments aboard ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft have helped reveal auroral emissions in…
NASA’s Mars Pathfinder mission landed on the Red Planet on July 4, 1997. It’s tiny rover, named Sojourner after abolitionist Sojourner Truth, spent 83 days of a planned seven-day mission exploring the…
Lucy: The First Mission to the Trojan Asteroids Time capsules from the birth of our Solar System more than 4 billion years ago, the swarms of Trojan asteroids associated with…
The Moon Is Rusting, and Researchers Want to Know Why While our Moon is airless, research indicates the presence of hematite, a form of rust that normally requires oxygen and…
Peculiar planetary system architecture around three Orion stars explained Not only has the discovery of eoxplanets throughout our galaxy provided a host of new worlds for astronomers to catalogue and…
For as long as there has been a Universe, space has been expanding. It winked into existence roughly 13.8 billion years ago, and has been puffing up ever since, like…
The First Gamma-Ray Pulsar Confirmed by the People Gamma ray pulars werep discovered a little while ago, and in onepone family, the spider pulsar, it accretes or gains…
Space Mission and Science News | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory The last time we saw NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission was on July 30, 2020, as it disappeared…
How quarantine has inspired new amateur astronomers (some who wouldn't mind an alien abduction) No surprises that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought out the inner astronomer in many…
The iconic Parkes radio telescope, otherwise known as The Dish, has been officially recognised for its contribution to Australian astronomy and humankind's understanding of the Universe with its addition to…
Why Elon Musk's satellite swarm is an accident waiting to happen Astronomers are worried about the SpaceX satellites ruining astro images but what's there are the moment is nothing…
CfA Scientists Discover Mysterious Spiral Structures around a "Planet Factory" Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) announced today the discovery of a complex…
“Stellar archaeology” reveals remnant of ancient globular cluster that’s “the last of its kind” A team of astronomers including Carnegie’s Ting Li and Alexander Ji discovered a stellar…
2020_Mars In October 2020 Mars will be roughly the closest it gets to Earth. This close approach is call an "opposition" and means that the Earth and Mars are on…