Dramatic underground explosions, perhaps involving ice, are responsible for the pits inside these two large martian impact craters, imaged by ESA’s Mars Express on 4 January.…
Read the articleMars has lost much of its original atmosphere, but what’s left remains quite active, recent findings from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity indicate. Rover team members reported…
Read the articleIn the wake of the Space Shuttle’s demise, new spacecraft are being developed in droves. While all existing craft are space capsules, not unlike those used…
Read the articleThe hundreds of volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io aren’t where they’re supposed to be, scientists say. Io’s major volcanic activity is concentrated 30 to 60 degrees…
Read the articleA new paper led by a NASA researcher shows that hydrogen peroxide is abundant across much of the surface of Jupiter‘s moon Europa. The authors argue…
Read the articleNASA’s Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star. The findings are among the first detections…
Read the articleAAVSO Alert Notice 482 Monitoring requested for dust production study in developing planetary systems April 4, 2013 Huan Meng and Dr. George Rieke (University of Arizona)…
Read the articleNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the farthest supernova so far of the type used to measure cosmic distances. Supernova UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson after American…
Read the articleThe antimatter hunter AMS-02 on the International Space Station is searching for the missing pieces of our Universe. The project’s first results published today are hinting…
Read the articleAstronomers have watched as a black hole woke up from a decades-long slumber to feed on a low-mass object – either a brown dwarf or a…
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