A new NASA-funded project led by UT San Antonio will examine how icy lunar soil, or regolith, behaves in the extreme cold found in the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions, primarily found in craters around the poles. The findings could help…
A new study identified more than 10,000 young tectonic faults on the lunar surface and estimated that the Moon's radius has decreased by approximately 45 meters due to the gradual cooling of its interior. The Moon appears unchanging when viewed with the…
A proposed super telescope called PHOENIX is still at a conceptual stage, with its proposers receiving funding from NASA to develop it further. All about PHOENIX—a proposed super telescope that could observe planet formation and early universe The observation…
Idaho County Free Press A region of Mars lying on the northern flanks of the Alba Mons volcano The white spots may be caused by deposition around vents where magmatic gases may be escaping from MarsâÂÂs interior The…
This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the Leo P dwarf galaxy (stars at lower right represented in blue). Leo P is a star-forming galaxy located about 5 million light-years away in the…
For the first time, data from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is revealing signs of young volcanism on present-day Mars. Europe’s long-serving spacecraft detected a steady release of hydrogen chloride in the martian atmosphere, an igneous gas commonly found…
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New “smoking gun” evidence of volcanic activity on Mars suggests there could be life on the red planet, say scientists. They believe gas seeping above volcanic rifts, detected by a European Space Agency (ESA) orbiter, suggests Mars is not geologically…
Earth has picked up a temporary visitor. A tiny asteroid, named 2026 QQ8, has been captured by our planet's gravity and is currently orbiting Earth as a mini-moon. The space rock is expected to remain with us until December 2026, before escaping Earth's…
Northwestern team’s physics-based virtual telescope raises exoplanet sensitivity up to 15-fold in James Webb images Graduate researcher Rodrigo Ferrer-Chavez and his team at Northwestern University’s astronomy department developed a method called “FLIP (Physics-based Learning for Imaging Planets),” which models how…
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