Lunar Spacecraft Gets an Upgrade to Capture New Perspectives of the Moon
Eleven years into its mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is starting to show its age, but a recent software…
How Old is the Ice at Mars’ North Pole?
Using data from the MRO's HiRISE camera, a team of researchers from UC Boulder have provided a starting point for…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter ‘Hides’ Behind the Sun
A deep-space mission is about to pull a ‘vanishing act,’ through mid-February, as the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter (affectionately…
The Crab Nebula Seen in 3-Dimensions
The Crab Nebula is arguably one of the most famous objects in the night sky. It was delineated as M1…
Quantum Theory Proposes That Cause and Effect Can Go In Loops
Causality is one of those difficult scientific topics that can easily stray into the realm of philosophy. Science’s relationship with…
Perseverance Will Make Sure it has a Safe Landing
To casual observers, landing a rover on Mars can seem kind of like old news, believe it or not. Especially…
Possible Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone at Alpha Centauri
Astronomers using a new technique may have not only found a super-Earth at a neighbouring star, but they may also…
It's Starting to Look Like Super-Earths Really are Just Great big Terrestrial Planets
New research shows there is a divide between how gas planets and rocky worlds form.
Three Storms Have Dumped Snow on Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea
The words “snow” and “Hawai’i” are not often mentioned in the same paragraph – or even on the same vacation.…
Super-Earth Conditions Simulated in the Lab to Discover if They’re Habitable
Researchers recently simulated what geological conditions would be like on Super-Earths, and found that a few known exoplanets are worth…