Mysterious moonquake traced to Apollo 17 lunar lander base ( www.space.com )
The Apollo 17 lunar lander base is creating small-scale moonquakes on a daily basis.
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The Apollo 17 lunar lander base is creating small-scale moonquakes on a daily basis.
New Giant Planet Is Evidence of Possible Planetary Collisions A Neptune-sized planet denser than steel has been discovered by an international team of astronomers, who believe its composition could be the result of a giant planetary clash. TOI-1853b's mass is almost twice that of any other similar
Astronomers have found planets that are twice as wide as Jupiter and more than 10 times as heavy, but there's a limit to how big planets can get.
A Southwest Research Institute-led team has modeled the early impact history of Venus to explain how Earth's sister planet has maintained a youthful surface despite lacking plate tectonics. The team compared the early collision histories of the two bodies and determined that Venus likely experienced higher-speed, higher-energy...
A study published this week in an astronomical journal suggests our universe could be 26.7 billion years old, or about twice as old as we thought.
The cold and mysterious Oort cloud at the edge of our solar system may be hiding a rogue planet
An annular solar eclipse, also known as a “ring of fire” eclipse because of the way the sun and moon line up, will be visible in the US, Central America and South America on 14 October...
Triton orbits to the beat of its own drum.
A new investigation by an international team of astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope into K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, has revealed the presence of carbon-bearing molecules including methane and carbon dioxide. The discovery adds to recent studies suggesting that K2-18 b...
A recent preprint paper examines the minimum number of people required to maintain a feasible settlement on Mars while accounting for psychological and behavioral factors, specifically in emergency situations. This study was conducted by a team of data scientists from George Mason University and holds the potential to help...
We once thought the Moon was completely airless, but it turns out it has an atmosphere, after all. Even wilder: it has a tail of its own.
The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here's how to terraform our lunar neighbor.
The Psyche asteroid, a celestial object laden with precious metals and valued at an astounding $10,000 quadrillion.
The 'ultracool' star is possibly around 44 times as dense as our solar system's largest member—the gas giant Jupiter.
Materials found in the rocks of Mars' Jezero Crater suggest that organic matter may be widespread across the red planet.
'This significantly increases the chances of finding environments where life could, in theory, develop.'
This is a journey into the scale of the galaxy we live in, the Milky Way -really well done video
"A space tug that launched on a SpaceX rideshare mission on June 12 started spinning uncontrollably after being deployed."...
NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.
OSIRIS-REx's samples of asteroid Bennu will land at 10:42 a.m. EDT (1442 GMT), while the spacecraft itself heads to a new target.
Astronomers have discovered the first "bubble of galaxies," an almost unimaginably huge cosmic structure thought to be a fossilized remnant from just after the Big Bang sitting in our galactic backyard.
You come at the king, you best not miss.
On October 14, 2023, the Americas will experience a partial solar eclipse, but from only eight U.S. states will it be possible to see the 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse.
A University of Kansas survey of a swath of the cosmos using the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed active galactic nuclei (AGN)—supermassive black holes that are rapidly increasing in size—are rarer than many astronomers had assumed previously.