Jupiter and its moons are busy in October. If skies are clear, be sure to set your alarm and follow the largest planet in our solar system this month. While
Jupiter and its moons are busy in October. If skies are clear, be sure to set your alarm and follow the largest planet in our solar system this month. While
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures an active lava lake on the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island. Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its
by Mark Armstrong On 6 October the shadow of Titan, Saturn’s giant moon, can be seen crossing Saturn’s creamy cloud tops. This shadow transit event starts at 04:18 UT, favouring
Lauren Edgar thought she had missed out on becoming an astronaut again. Earlier this year, friends at the Johnson Space Center gave Edgar, a planetary scientist at the U.S. Geological
Sunday evening (Oct. 5) will bring us a fine opportunity to make a positive identification of what many consider to be the most beautiful of all telescopic objects, the ringed
Lightning energy and rate values consistent with the required lightning power for Venus. The best-fit curve (best agreement with observational constraints on atmospheric abundance of NO, orange line) is plotted
An international of researchers, including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI) have used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover 12 black
EU researchers are developing powerful new telescopes to help uncover Earth-like planets around distant stars and advance the search for extraterrestrial life.
Reprocessed images of Uranus ] and Neptune NASA/JPL-Caltech (Uranus and Neptune); “Modelling the Seasonal Cycle of Uranus’s Colour and Magnitude, and Comparison with Neptune,” by Patrick G. J. Irwin
A small asteroid just gave the Earth a close buzz. The little space rock, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Tuesday