Space & Planetary Science
Official naming of surface features on Pluto and its satellites: First step approved
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute In 2015, in partnership with NASA's New Horizons mission and the...
NASA sees another quick Tropical Cyclone demise in South Pacific
Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of the end of Tropical Cyclone 8P as it was being...
Saturn’s rings viewed in the mid-infrared show bright Cassini Division
Credit: NAOJ A team of researchers has succeeded in measuring the brightnesses and temperatures of Saturn's rings using the mid-infrared...
More Earth-like than moon-like
Credit: NASA HiRISE image, David Susko, LSU. Mars' mantle may be more complicated than previously thought. In a new study...
Researchers explore possibilities of growing plants on Mars
Credit: Photo courtesy of NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis. MELBOURNE, FLA. -- Tucked away in a Florida Institute of Technology lab, a would-be...
Current weak spots in Greenland’s ice sheet have been weak for thousands of years
Earlier recent work has shown that the east, southeast and northwest regions of the Greenland ice sheet have contributed to...
Ancient global cooling gave rise to modern ecosystems
Around 7 million years ago, landscapes and ecosystems across the world began changing dramatically. Subtropical regions dried out and the...
Curiosity finds evidence of Mars crust contributing to atmosphere
NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence that chemistry in the surface material on Mars contributed dynamically to the makeup of...
A perfect sun-storm
A geomagnetic storm on January 17, 2013, provided unique observations that finally resolved a long-standing scientific problem. For decades, scientists...
Cosmic dust demystified
The solar system is a dusty environment, with trillions of cosmic dust particles left behind by comets and asteroids that...
Hubble spots possible water plumes erupting on Jupiter’s moon Europa
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged what may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter's...
New low-mass objects could help refine planetary evolution
When a star is young, it is often still surrounded by a primordial rotating disk of gas and dust, from...
Earthquakes, ‘Mars-quakes,’ and the possibility of life
A new study shows that rocks formed by the grinding together of other rocks during earthquakes are rich in trapped...
How and why are measurements of ozone taken from space?
Measurements from GOME-2, together with information from model runs, provide a forecast for 2 September of...
Unusual short burst of X-rays coming from slowest-spinning neutron star
Composite photo of the slowest-spinning neutron star discovered so far (9-2016): background stars photographed in optical...
Astronomers capture best view ever of disintegrating comet
The comet breaks apart: This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the ancient comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami disintegrating...
X-ray detection sheds new light on Pluto
The first detection of Pluto in X-rays has been made using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in...
Fighting Cancer with Space Research
NGC 3718, NGC 3729 and other galaxies have been analyzed using machine learning algorithms that can...
Echoes of black holes eating stars discovered
This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star as it is being devoured...
First gravitational waves form after 10 million years
Credit: (Image: Astrophysical Journal) In his General Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein predicted gravitational waves over a century ago; this...
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Dual action: RNA binding protein also binds DNA and acts as a damage sensor across the genome
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‘Stealth transmission’ fuels fast spread of coronavirus outbreak
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Wiggling worms suggest link between vitamin B12 and Alzheimer’s
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Metabolism changes with age, just not when you might think
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KU to lead new program supporting inter-American research on nuclear science