Jul 17, 2020 by News Staff

Solar Orbiter, a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA, made its first close approach to the Sun in mid-June and captured unique...

Jul 10, 2020 by News Staff

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has captured unique images of comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) and its two tails. This image from the WISPR instrument on board NASA’s...

Jul 10, 2020 by News Staff

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE), a recently-discovered visitor from distant parts of our Solar System, is putting on a spectacular nighttime display. This image...

Jul 9, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of astronomers from Israel and the United States has discovered a vast stream of 250 stars of extragalactic origin in the vicinity of our Solar...

Jul 8, 2020 by News Staff

A team of scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China has developed an efficient and sustainable hierarchical steam generator that,...

Jul 8, 2020 by News Staff

Our Solar System contains a large population of icy bodies stretching well beyond the orbit of Neptune. These objects are remnants from the early formation...

May 27, 2020 by News Staff

Using five years of magnetic field data obtained by NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, a team of scientists has created...

May 26, 2020 by News Staff

Repeated collisions with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy may have triggered major star formation episodes in our Milky Way Galaxy, one of which roughly coincided...

May 13, 2020 by News Staff

Officially classified C/2020 F8 (SWAN) but nicknamed comet SWAN, the new comet was first spotted in April 2020 by Australian amateur astronomer Michael...

May 11, 2020 by News Staff

JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft recently traveled to the near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu to collect samples and return them to Earth for lab analysis....

May 1, 2020 by News Staff

Magnetic activity on the Sun leads to solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other space weather that affects Earth. Similar activity on other stars...

Apr 29, 2020 by News Staff

New images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the long-period comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), taken on April 20 and 23, 2020, provide the sharpest views...

Apr 24, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several ground-based telescopes, astronomers have been able to watch the long-period comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)...

Mar 16, 2020 by News Staff

In 2011, NASA’s MESSENGER orbiter detected signals typical of glacial ice near the poles on Mercury. The ice was dingy and lurked in permanent shadows...

Feb 20, 2020 by News Staff

Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between ESA and NASA to study our Sun, successfully launched on an Atlas V 411 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air...

Feb 19, 2020 by News Staff

Water makes up about 0.25% (almost three times that of the Sun) of the molecules in Jupiter’s atmospheric molecules at the gas giant’s equator, according...

Feb 12, 2020 by News Staff

In February 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is celebrating its 10th year in space. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft,...

Feb 11, 2020 by News Staff

According to new research by University of Warwick and University of Colorado, Boulder scientists, electromagnetic radiation from stars at the end of their...

Feb 10, 2020 by News Staff

Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA to study our Sun, launched at 05:03 CET on February 10, 2020...

Feb 4, 2020 by News Staff

New observations from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe show how Sun’s plasma that is released after a solar flare can accelerate and pile up solar energetic...