Space/Planetary Science

The stress of spaceflight gives viruses a holiday from immune surveillance, putting future deep-space missions in jeopardy Herpes viruses reactivate in more than half of crew aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions,…

Credit: © ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS ExoMars is a space mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) in cooperation with the Russian space agency Roskosmos. ExoMars stands for exobiology on Mars: for the first time since the 1970s,…

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, March 14, 2019 -- Did you realize that just like certain animals here on Earth, there are endangered elements, too? For example, we're constantly losing helium, a gas that defies…

ESO's Cosmic Gems Programme captures the Cosmic Bat's dusty cloudsCredit: ESO ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT has caught a glimpse of an ethereal nebula hidden away in the darkest corners of the constellation of Orion (The Hunter)…

Geologic and paleontological evidence unearthed in southern Chile supports the theory that a major cosmic impact event occurred approximately 12,800 years ago When UC Santa Barbara geology professor emeritus James Kennett and colleagues…

Credit: Yuri Kovalev Astrophysicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS), and NASA have found an error in the coordinates of active galactic…

Credit: NAOJ A team of astronomers has discovered 83 quasars powered by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early Universe. This increases the number of black holes known at that epoch considerably, and reveals, for the first time, how…

Credit: Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (March 13, 2019) -- NASA officials say that some rare and distinct meteorites found on Earth were actually blasted off Mars by a large impact event. One such rock…

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Kudo et al. Researchers have spotted the formation sites of planets around a young star resembling our Sun. Two rings of dust around the star, at distances comparable to the asteroid belt and the orbit of…

Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Trihydrogen, or H3+, is acknowledged by scientists as the molecule that made the universe. In recent issues of Nature Communications and the Journal of Chemical Physics, Michigan State…