Space/Planetary Science

WASHINGTON--The stark difference between the Moon's heavily-cratered farside and the lower-lying open basins of the Earth-facing nearside has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, new evidence about the Moon's crust suggests the…

Credit: Source: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker Joint press release by Hokkaido University, Earth-Life Science Institute at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokushima…

Around 500 astronomers and space scientists will gather at Lancaster University, from 30 June - 4 July, for the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting 2019 (NAM 2019). The conference is the largest annual astronomy and…

Scientists at the Swedish Museum of Natural History have begun compiling an atlas of fossils in volcanic rock, to guide where and what to look for in the search for Martian lifeCredit: Dr. Magnus Ivarsson In 2020, NASA and…

Credit: Berkeley Lab As cosmologists and astrophysicists delve deeper into the darkest recesses of the universe, their need for increasingly powerful observational and computational tools has expanded exponentially. From facilities…

Neutron star mergers to be topic of Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation events Scientists conducting cutting-edge research in computational astrophysics will converge at Rochester Institute of Technology for two workshops…

On 1 January 2019, the New Horizons Spacecraft conducted a flyby of (486958) 2014 MU69 - a distant object orbiting in the outer reaches of the Solar System. In a new report, Alan Stern and colleagues present the first results from the…

Credit: NASA, ESA; acknowledgment: T. Roberts (Durham University, UK), D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts) and the LEGUS Team, R. Tully (University of Hawaii) and R. Chandar (University of Toledo) The irregular galaxy NGC…

Credit: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tachibana et al. Researchers using ALMA data discovered an aluminum-bearing molecule for the first time around a young star. Aluminum rich inclusions found in meteorites are some of the oldest solid objects…

Credit: NAOC/CNSA A lunar lander named for the Chinese goddess of the moon may have lessened the mystery of the far side of the moon. The fourth probe of Chang'E (CE-4) was the first mission to land on the far side of the moon,…