Flying high: the SOFIA telescope was carried skyward by a jumbo jet. (Courtesy: NASA/Jim Ross) The first direct observation of water on the surface of an asteroid has been made using an airborne ...
It's clear that Mars once gushed with water. Today, aerial views of the Red Planet's Jezero crater (shown below) reveal that water once poured into this basin, leaving behind telltale signs of ...
Water vapour discovered in the disc is shown in shades of blue (ALMA/ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/S Facchini et al/PA) Astronomers have found water in a disc that could be forming planets – potentially ...
Gazing at the moon, you may see a face or a round of cheese, but some astronomers see the ideal spot for their next giant telescope. They're already drafting blueprints and making proposals ...
In a major breakthrough, scientists have found large amounts of water vapour in a disk of dust circling a baby star. According to space.com, the infant star is filled with enough water to fill ...
"By understanding the sizes and shapes of craters on Europa and reproducing their formation with numerical simulations, we’re able to infer information about how thick its ice shell is.
Intuitive Machines’ spacecraft Odysseus lands after a 73-minute descent, touching down near moon’s south pole The United States has returned to the lunar surface for the first time in more ...
The Odysseus lunar lander's pioneering journey to the moon has not only left NASA scientists with invaluable data, but has gifted the rest of humanity with some eye-catching celestial photos.
Fears raised that prime lunar locations for universe-unravelling instruments are in danger from imminent wave of human activity Bases, experiments, mining: race to protect surface of moon ...
The Moon is Earth's sole natural satellite. It orbits our planet in an elliptical path and is the fifth largest of over 200 moons in our solar system, according to NASA. Humans first landed on the ...
Scientists have developed a new computer model that simulates how moon dust behaves in lunar gravity. They hope it will help future robotic moon explorers to do their job more safely. Scientists ...
Scientists hoping to find life in liquid water oceans beneath the frigid, icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa may get a helping hand from a "cosmic snowball fight" this world once engaged in.