Space/Planetary Science

Work may help determine source of Fast Radio Bursts Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have made the first direct geometric measurement of the distance to a magnetar within our Milky Way…

New CME forecasting method shows value of including imaging cameras on future NASA missionsCredit: University of Reading Solar storm analysis carried out by an army of citizen scientists has helped researchers devise a new and more…

Credit: Patrick McElhenney/FOX The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. In the latest installment of the journal BioScience's In Their Own Words oral history series,…

Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team. This latest image of Jupiter, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 25 August 2020, was…

Interactions with binary companions shape the stellar winds blowing from elderly stars, generating the dazzling array of complex shapes found in the planetary nebulae they produce, a new study finds. While massive stars explode in…

Credit: KU Leuven Astronomers present an explanation for the mesmerising shapes of planetary nebulae. The discovery is based on an extraordinary set of observations of stellar winds around ageing stars. Contrary to common…

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL team This latest image of Jupiter, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on Aug. 25, 2020, was captured…

First-ever measurements provide evidence that extremely cold liquid water exists in two distinct structures that co-exist and vary in proportion dependent on temperatureCredit: Timothy Holland, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory …

An international team of researchers has found that some of the oldest terrain on Venus, known as tesserae, have layering that seems consistent with volcanic activity. The finding could provide insights into the enigmatic planet's…

New book illustrates up-to-date findings in cosmology and exobiologyCredit: World Scientific In March 1995, Ben Zuckerman and Matt Malkan hosted a memorable Symposium at UCLA, on "The Origin and Evolution of the Universe". It…

Credit: Vanderburg et al. 2020 An international team of astronomers led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including NASA co-authors, and Thomas G. KAYE from HKU's Laboratory for Space Research (LSR), and the Raemor Vista…

Credit: Rising temperatures at the observatory's location are impacting the quality of the images. Climate changes associated with global warming can affect astronomical observations. That is the result of a study involving…

UC San Diego engineer Boris Kramer is part of a team that will develop software to forecast space storms.Credit: NASA In August 1859, a massive solar storm knocked out the global telegraph system. Some telegraph operators were hit…

Credit: ESA After contributing to Rosetta Mission, in 2024 Politecnico di Milano will be back to deep space. That year ESA, the European Space Agency, will launch the Hera spacecraft towards binary asteroid Didymos, the smallest…

Credit: Javier G. Fernandez, 2020. CC-BY A simple manufacturing technology based on chitin, one of the most ubiquitous organic polymers on Earth, could be used to build tools and shelters on Mars, according to a study published…

ITHACA, N.Y. - When stars like our sun die, all that remains is an exposed core - a white dwarf. A planet orbiting a white dwarf presents a promising opportunity to determine if life can survive the death of its star, according to Cornell…

MADISON - Thanks to a bevy of telescopes in space and on Earth -- and even a pair of amateur astronomers in Arizona -- a University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomer and his colleagues have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting at…

Credit: University of Kansas / KU News Service LAWRENCE -- A University of Kansas astronomer played a key role on the team that today announced the first-ever discovery of a planet orbiting a white dwarf. The finding, published in…

One of the world's most powerful telescopes begins development of revolutionary optical technologies necessary to transform humanity's view and understanding of the universe at first lightCredit: Giant Magellan Telescope - GMTO…

Astronomers detect first-of-its-kind exoplanet around dead starCredit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard For the first time, an intact, giant exoplanet has been discovered orbiting close to a white dwarf…