WHAT’S UP IN THE SKY: When dust gets in your skies | Astronomy
Today: Every star rotates. Our Sun takes a little less than one Earth month to rotate once on…
HEO to use Planet satellites for non-Earth imaging
WASHINGTON — HEO, the Australian company that uses Earth observation satellites to take images of other spacecraft, has…
Dusty Accretion Disks around Supermassive Black Holes May Be Secret Planet Factories
Astronomers from New Mexico State University, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center and CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College propose…
Rocky Planets May Have Started Forming Just 100 Million Years after Big Bang
New simulations suggest supernova explosions of the Universe’s first stars scattered the ingredients for rocky planets only 100…
Liquid Nitrogen May Have Flowed on Pluto’s Surface in Recent Past
Planetary researchers analyzing images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have found evidence that liquid nitrogen may still be…
WHAT’S UP IN THE SKY: A look at the stars of Harry Potter | Astronomy
Today: One minor Harry Potter character actually has two well-known star names: Regulus Arcturus Black, the brother of…
Curiosity Finds Massive Field of Honeycomb-Shaped Fractures on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has stumbled on the largest patch of polygon-shaped ground fractures it has ever seen on…
Rules of the road needed for orbital data center constellations
WASHINGTON — As companies develop plans for large constellations of orbital data center satellites, experts say now is…
Space Weather May Warp Martian Weather during Dust Storms, Planetary Scientists Suggest
Planetary researchers have found the first evidence that bursts of energetic particles from the Sun could warm the…
Faint new planet is revealed around a young star after a decade in hiding
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered a faint, elusive planet orbiting a young star after more than a decade…
NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Captures Mind-Bending Month-Long Timelapse of Mars
A colorized compilation of timelapse images NASA JPL’s Psyche spacecraft captured from May 2 through May 15. Throughout…
A Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star has been discovered
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An artist’s illustration showing an exoplanet and a red dwarf. Astronomers have discovered a…