Planets/Moons

Credit: Image by NASA/MIT/TESS AMES, Iowa - NASA's planet-hunting TESS Mission keeps giving astronomers new realities to examine and explain. Case in point: astronomers using the tools of asteroseismology - the observations and…

Analysis of images from Mars rovers shows insect- and reptile-like fossils, creaturesCredit: Analysis by Dr. William Romoser ATHENS, Ohio (Nov. 19, 2019) - As scientists scramble to determine whether there is life on Mars, Ohio…

Credit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made one of the highest-performance cameras ever composed of sensors that count single photons, or particles of light. With more than…

Credit: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope "They're out there," goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be true in light of a new study on planetary axis tilts. Astrophysicists at the Georgia…

Credit: (Samanta et al. 2019, Science; Data courtesy of BBSO/GST and NASA/SDO) An international team of scientists, including three researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has shed new light on one of the…

Credit: NASA A new instrument with its eye on the Moon is taking off aboard a high-altitude NASA plane to measure the Moon's brightness and eventually help Earth observing sensors make more accurate measurements. The airborne Lunar…

First study to combine 3D climate modeling with chemistry explores M dwarf planetsCredit: NASA/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/D. Aguilar Study is the first to include 3D chemistry to understand how a star's radiation heats…

Credit: NASA/JPL For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above the surface of Gale Crater on Mars. As a result, they noticed…

Credit: NASA/JPL/JHUAPL/MSSS/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Next year, NASA plans to launch a new Mars rover to search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. A new study shows that the rover's Jezero crater landing…

University of Jena astrophysicist discovers numerous multiple star systems with exoplanetsCredit: (Photo: ESO/M. Kornmesser) Is Earth the only habitable planet in the universe or are there more worlds somewhere out there that are…