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LISA Will Be a Remarkable Gravitational-Wave Observatory. But There’s a Way to Make it 100 Times More Powerful
A team of researchers with the ESA propose an upgrade for the LISA mission (LISAMax), which could revolutionize gravitational wave…
Juice Looks Back at Earth During Its Space Odyssey to Jupiter’s Moons
As the European Space Agency's Juice spacecraft headed out on an eight-year trip to Jupiter's icy moons, it turned back…
Perseverance is Turning Into That Friend That's Always Picking Up Rocks
NASA's Perseverance rover just obtained its sixteenth sample, which will be retrieved by the joint NASA/ESA Sample Return Mission
Moons Orbiting Rogue Planets Could be Habitable
A new study reveals how rogue planets could have "Ocean World" moons that may support life.
ExoMars is Back on Track for Mars in 2028
The ExoMars Rover mission is back on track for its mission to Mars, but Russia won't be a part of…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter Spies a Transit of Mercury
Solar Orbiter’s unique vantage point recently allowed researchers to make a crucial observation, of the solar system’s innermost world.
Astronomers Suspected There Should Be a Planet Here, and Then They Took a Picture of it
Two teams independently discovered a super-Jupiter around a nearby Sun-like star using astrometry and direct imaging.
How are Mars Rocks Getting “Shocked” by Meteorite Impacts?
A new NASA study shows how samples obtained by Perseverance could have been shaped by asteroid impacts when Mars was…
Clouds of Carbon Dust Seen When the Universe was Less Than a Billion Years Old
A new study shows that carbonaeous dust grains existed much earlier than previously thought, which has significant implications for galactic…
Dust Storms on Mars Generate Static Electricity. What Does This Do to Its Surface?
A new study shows how electrical discharges caused by Martian storms drives some major chemical processes on the planet's surface.