In astronomy, larger distances are both a blessing and a curse. They can cause issues like longer communication times, which also requires more powerful equipment, and positioning uncertainty that can
In astronomy, larger distances are both a blessing and a curse. They can cause issues like longer communication times, which also requires more powerful equipment, and positioning uncertainty that can
New research on the samples collected by China’s Chang’e-5 mission is revolutionizing our understanding of how the Moon cooled. A team led by Stephen M. Elardo, an Assistant Professor from
Time evolution of the gas disk and planetary envelopes after the tidal disruption of a Jupiter-like planet. – Disc surface density evolution for the 10 M⊕ case; circles indicate the
HELSINKI — Chinese launch startup iSpace successfully sent a satellite into orbit early Tuesday with a solid fueled rocket mission a year after a launch failure. To continue reading this
There’s no doubt that SpaceX’s Starlink internet service has connected the world like never before — but at what cost? Astronomers have long voiced concerns about Starlink’s satellite constellation interfering
The proposed mechanism for vesicle formation on Titan. (1) Methane lakes and seas on Titan’s surface become coated with a film of amphiphiles. (2) Methane raindrops splash the lake surface.
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Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any explorers that might land there one day, a new study finds.
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet collect a spectra from a rusty rock composed mainly by mafic minerals like olivines and pyroxenes, the same that could characterize the lunar mantleLarger image —
Positions of the final literature sample of background stars with spectroscopically measured 3 µm optical depths, overlaid on a Planck 857 GHz (350 µm) image of the Milky Way. Different