NASA’s Curiosity rover has made a remarkable discovery on Mars by finding pure sulfur in a rock, surprising scientists. Although the rover has detected sulfur before, it has always found it mixed with…
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in the galaxy. These scorching worlds are as massive as Jupiter, and they swing wildly close to their star, whirling around…
On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the lunar surface after landing softly in the Apollo 11 Eagle module on the famous…
Over the years, the International Space Station (ISS) has provided a unique vantage point for observing a variety of mysterious and intriguing phenomena in Earth’s upper atmosphere and beyond. From UFOs to strange…
James Day, University of California, San Diego Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together – only 385 or so stones came…
An international team of astronomers has used more than 500 images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, taken over two decades, to detect seven fast-moving stars in the innermost region of Omega Centauri,…
ROBERTO MOLAR CANDANOSA/JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY The atmosphere of HD 189733 b, a gas giant the size of Jupiter, has traces of hydrogen sulphide, a molecule that not only gives off a bad smell,…
When the exoplanet LHS 1140 b was discovered, astronomers hypothesized that it could be a mini-Neptune – that is, a predominantly gaseous planet, but smaller than Neptune. However, after analyzing the latest data…
The striking surface feature, called Aganippe Fossa, is a tectonic trench or graben – a long depression bounded on both sides by parallel normal faults. Astronomers first sighted it in 1930, but it…
Simonetta Di Pippo, Bocconi University June 25 2024 marked a new “first” in the history of spaceflight. China’s robotic Chang’e 6 spacecraft delivered samples of rock back to Earth from a huge feature…