Ocean Salinity Affects Earth’s Climate. How About on Exoplanets?

There’s a link between Earth’s ocean salinity and its climate. Salinity can have a dramatic effect…

See JUICE Next Week During Its Earth-Moon Flyby

Well-placed observers have a rare opportunity to see an interplanetary spacecraft early next week. If skies…

Kansas Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Station

Students from Topeka, Kansas, will have the opportunity Wednesday, Aug. 21, to have NASA astronauts Matthew…

Kansas Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Station

Students from Topeka, Kansas, will have the opportunity Wednesday, Aug. 21, to have NASA astronauts Matthew…

Hubble Rings in a New Galactic View

Meanwhile, the classification of “ring galaxy” is reserved for peculiar galaxies with a round ring of…

Life in other worlds | The Planetary Society

Europa, like Mars, is thought to hide liquid water beneath its surface. This makes the moon of…

Study of Earth’s rotation history shows deceleration has been in a staircase pattern

Cyclostratigraphic reconstruction of k and its trends through time. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of…

New research shows unprecedented atmospheric changes during May’s geomagnetic superstorm

Associate Professor and Crofton Faculty Fellow Scott England. Credit: Ben Murphy for Virginia Tech. On May…

Asaph Hall finds Mars moon Phobos 147 years ago

Asaph Hall discovered Phobos on August 17, 1877. This image of the large crater Stickney on…

Scientists pinpoint dino-killing asteroid’s origin: past Jupiter

Artist impression of a large asteroid impacting on Earth such as the Chicxulub event that caused…