NASA has announced the date when the first full-color images from the new James Webb Space Telescope will be released. Along with ESA (European Space Agency), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and the… [+2360 chars]
Nasa has discovered an Earth-like planet thought to be covered in oceans of lava. Nasa's renowned James Webb Telescope is expected to give scientists a closer look at 55 Cancri e, a lava-covered pla… [+2300 chars]
It is not a secret that Venus is Earth's nearest planetary neighbor and is the second planet from the Sun. But have you ever wondered what this planet looks like up close? First Close-Up Photo of Ve… [+3850 chars]
Widely believed by astronomers, the principle of mediocrity states that the properties and evolution of the solar system are not unusual in any important way. New research from CU Boulder- led by CU … [+3033 chars]
The sounds of sloshing lava are music to a volcanologist's ears. The reverberating belches and burps can help reveal what's going on deep within a volcano's belly. Putting an ear to the Klauea volca… [+3606 chars]
The lightning protection system at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39B recently intercepted the most powerful lightning strike ever recorded at the spaceport. When this event occurred, the age… [+1739 chars]
During its first couple hundred days in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover saw some of the most intense dust activity ever witnessed by a mission sent to the Red Planet's surface. Not only… [+5505 chars]
Spacecraft studying Earth's magnetosphere collectively observed how solar particles reach the upper atmosphere and create glowing auroral beads in the night sky. (Image credit: ESA/ATG medialab) A c… [+3866 chars]
At long last: the crystal structure of three layers of -graphyne. (Courtesy: Yiming Hu) Two new processes for producing different types of graphyne a 2D allotrope of carbon that includes triple bond… [+6674 chars]
This guest post was written by Elena Asencio, a first year PhD student at the University of Bonn. Elena works on testing and comparing different cosmological models at galaxy and galaxy cluster scale… [+6171 chars]
A long-running NASA rover imaged twisted Red Planet rock pillars. The Curiosity rover spotted (opens in new tab) the sinewy rocks on May 15, according to raw images the mission sends down to Earth. … [+2884 chars]
Astronauts have been venturing into space for 61 years to unlock the human potential for exploration. But the floating freedom offered by a lack of gravity also presents a number of limits when it c… [+7260 chars]
