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Space Exploration
Space Exploration
Solar System
Two rare ices coexist on Neptune’s moon Triton
Astronomers applied their laboratory findings to space to discover that Triton undergoes a special chemical reaction
Space Exploration
Get your name on the Mars 2020 rover!
NASA’s next Martian rover is now accepting names from the public to travel with it to the Red Planet next year
Astronomy
The underwater telescope that is on the hunt for neutrinos
Discoveries made by this seafloor-based telescope could help explain powerful cosmic events
Solar System
Juno Update: Jupiter’s constantly-changing magnetic field is driven by deep winds
This discovery is another important step in understanding the mysterious interior structure of the Solar System’s largest planet
Space Exploration
The Mars 2020 spacecraft is being pieced together
NASA’s next installment in Martian rover exploration, Mars 2020, will have soon have its protective layers for travelling to Mars
Deep Space
Astronomers detail the deformation of galaxies as they collide
The collision course between NGC 4485 and NGC 4490 produces a bright and creative form of irregularity
Space Exploration
What was the first spacecraft to arrive at a planet?
We recount the day when the first manmade spacecraft made contact with another world
Space Exploration
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter celebrates a tremendous milestone
The Mars orbiter has recently hit 60,000 orbits around the Red Planet, a feat that took over 13 years to complete
Astronomy
Can planets survive the death of a star?
A recent study shows that it is possible for the smaller planets with denser elements could live to fight another day
Solar System
Wrinkles on the Moon has revealed its history of geological activity
Astronomers focussed on the large dark basin toward the lunar north pole called Mare Frigoris
Solar System
The Martian moon Phobos reveals its colourful layers while in a full moon phase
NASA’s Odyssey spacecraft has recently studied the temperature ranges on Phobos which can help understand its composition
Deep Space
Scorching exoplanet has glimpses of exotic metals in its atmosphere
Astronomers have found a host of rare-Earth metals in a the hottest known exoplanet
Deep Space
NASA space telescope observes the illumination of primordial galaxies
NASA’s Spitzer space telescope and its infrared capabilities have revealed the details of galaxies born less than a billion years after the Big Bang
Deep Space
More space telescopes could launch leading to even sharper black hole image
Astronomers have proposed constructing a series of space telescopes to image black holes known as the Event Horizon Imager (EHI)
Astronomy
Astronomers open up the interior of huge blue supergiant stars
Blue supergiants and their ‘live fast, die young’ nature have never been truly understood by astronomers even with modern telescopes
News
Best way to build a Death Star is from an asteroid, says NASA
The Galactic Empire did things the hard way by shooting materials from a planet as well as building it in space, according to a NASA engineer
Deep Space
Gravitational wave ejections appear to be more frequent than first thought
The LIGO and Virgo collaboration has observed more cosmic collisions after their equipment upgrades in April 2019
Solar System
Probing Venus’ atmosphere using infrared instruments
JAXA’s Akatsuki spacecraft provided the infrared images that help astronomers understand the strange movement of Venus’ hellish clouds
Astronomy
Astronomers could have identified a star from outside the Milky Way
Analysis of the star’s chemical composition indicates that it could have originated from a dwarf galaxy that then merged with the Milky Way