Mercury, as seen by NASA’s MESSENGER orbiter. Through a new analysis of MESSENGER’s images, researchers have…
Category: Earth Sky
Is a surprisingly massive exomoon orbiting this big exoplanet?
View larger. | Artist’s concept of a massive exomoon orbiting a gas giant exoplanet. A team…
New mission could create artificial solar eclipses in space
ESA’s Proba-3 spacecraft captured this image of our star. The sun’s dazzling body is blocked by…
Event Horizon Telescope probes source of 3,000-light-year-long black hole jet
The smooth, rounded glow is an elliptical galaxy made of roughly a trillion stars: the giant…
Life in Europa’s ocean still possible, new research suggests
Is there life in Europa’s ocean? A new study suggests that chemical nutrients in the moon’s…
Challenger disaster: 40 years ago today
A photo of the Challenger crew, taken on January 9, 1986, during training at the Kennedy…
AI combed Hubble’s archive, saw hundreds of cosmic anomalies
View larger. | AI combed Hubble’s archive, revealing – among hundreds of other discoveries – these…
New evidence for ancient Mars ocean found in giant canyon
View larger. | Artist’s concept of the view over Valles Marineris, aka the Grand Canyon of…
Iconic Ring nebula holds a mysterious iron bar, study finds
This is the iconic Ring nebula, as seen by combining 4 images from the WEAVE/LIFU instrument…
New view of distant worlds
View larger. | Quantum computers and exoplanets: This is the Webb space telescope’s view of the…