Space & Planetary Science

At roughly 11 light-years away, GJ 887 - a red dwarf roughly half as massive the Sun - hosts one of the closest multi-planet systems to our Solar System, researchers report. According to a new study, the nearby system is home to at…

The second-most distant quasar ever discovered now has a Hawaiian name Credit: Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld Maunakea, Hawai'i - Astronomers have discovered the second-most distant…

International researchers led by University of Göttingen find multiple planet system orbiting Gliese 887 Credit: Mark Garlick The nearest exoplanets to us provide the best opportunities for detailed study, including…

Credit: Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute. A new model from NASA scientists supports the theory that the interior ocean in Jupiter's moon Europa would be able to sustain life. In addition they have calculated…

Aerospace student joins 'exceptional group of women' Credit: UT Arlington A doctoral student in aerospace engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington is one of 35 Amelia Earhart Fellows for 2020. Katiyayni (Kati)…

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite provided a night-time look at what is now Post-Tropical Storm Dolly in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. Terra found that all of Dolly's clouds were on one side of the storm…

Credit: Michigan State University Smokey the Bear says that only you can prevent wildfires, but what if Smokey had a high-tech backup? In a new study, a team of Michigan State University scientists designed and fabricated…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center For more than a decade, astronomers have searched for planets orbiting AU Microscopii, a nearby star still surrounded by a disk of debris left over from its formation. Now…

The discovery gives scientists a front seat to the earliest stages of planet formation Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Understanding how planets form is one of the main challenges scientists face when placing our…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA) Astronomers study stars and planets much younger than the Sun to learn about past events that shaped the Solar System and Earth. Most of these stars are far…

An exoplanet the size of Neptune has been discovered around the young star AU Microscopii, thanks in part to the work of Jonathan Gagné, a former iREx Banting postdoctoral researcher who is now a scientific advisor at the Rio Tinto Alcan…

X-ray scattering enables closer scrutiny of the interior of planets and starsCredit: HZDR / Sahneweiß Recreating extreme conditions in the lab, like those in the interior of planets and stars, is very complex and can only be…

An international team of researchers highlighted two variants of Weibel's instabilityCredit: David Tordeux The magnetic structures resulting from a plasma instability predicted by the physicist Erich Weibel about 50 years ago has been…

Asteroid Didymos' moon receives its new name just over a year before deflection mission launchCredit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben The International Astronomical Union has just approved an official name for a tiny asteroid…

An analysis of 19,200 private companies, research organizations, public entities and higher education institutions involved in Horizon 2020 projects shows a loss of efficiency in some sectors if U.K. organizations are removed.Credit: Image…

Credit: Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Detlef Hartmann; Infrared: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech. Hi-definition image available at https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/spiral-galaxy-m51.html... Researchers…

An interdisciplinary team of scientists has demonstrated that it is possible to build an ultra-sensitive sensor based on a new fluorescent molecule able to detect the nuclear decay key to knowing whether or not a neutrino is its own…

A new study suggests that Pluto and other large Kuiper belt objects started out with liquid oceans which have been slowly freezing over timeCredit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex…

SwRI also developing ion instrument to study electrodynamics in the polar cuspsCredit: NASA/Jamie Adkins SAN ANTONIO -- June 22, 2020 -- NASA has approved the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites…

Earth's Moon has a 'near side' that is perpetually Earth-facing and a 'far side', which always faces away from Earth. The composition of the Moon's near side is oddly different from its far side, and scientists think they finally understand…