While working under Erika Rader, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences at University of Idaho,...
Over six missions to the moon, from 1969 to 1972, Apollo astronauts collected more than 800 pounds of lunar rock...
Asteroid Ryugu possibly did not travel as far from its place of origin to its current near-Earth orbit as previously...
Most CubeSats weigh less than a bowling ball, and some are small enough to hold in your hand. But the...
Earth will capture a miniature, “second moon” this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny...
In a surprise finding, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive...
Solar wind is a never-ending stream of charged particles coming from the sun. Rather than a constant breeze, this wind...
The Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors (EXIS) onboard NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite, which launched on June 25, 2024, are powered...
Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects―the most detailed one...
Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer...
Long ago, flowing wind and water shaped Mars’s malleable sand and sediment into dunes, ripples and other landscape patterns, called...
Mars wasn’t always the cold desert we see today. There’s increasing evidence that water once flowed on the red planet’s...
