Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis Curiosity was back at work on Monday, ...

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image, looking southwest toward the distant large boxwork structures in the Uyuni ...

Step 4: Move your phone camera as directed by the instructions on the screen over the area where you would like to project the model.Try to choose a flat space free of clutter, such as a desk or the ...

Orbital Parameters and Elements. The terms orbital period, periapsis, and apoapsis were introduced in Chapter 3. The direction a spacecraft or other body travels in orbit can be direct, or prograde, ...

The universe is everything. It includes all of space, and all the matter and energy that space contains. It even includes time itself and, of course, it includes you.

“This exciting discovery opens up new possibilities for auroral research and confirms that auroras could be visible to future astronauts on Mars’ surface.” said Elise Knutsen, a postdoctoral ...

During the Gannon storm on May 10 and 11, 2024, many trans-Atlantic flights took more southerly routes across the ocean to avoid the risk of higher radiation for passengers and crew, as well as to ...

Year 2 - Core and Jet of M87. Astronomers reported in 1992 that they found intriguing evidence that a black hole weighing over 2.6 billion times the mass of the Sun exists at the center of the giant ...

Stars — they shimmer in the night sky, burning hot across the cosmos. But sometimes … they erupt. Enter: novae. In short, a nova is an outburst in a binary system, or system with two stars that ...

Seafarers have known about the Gulf Stream — the Atlantic Ocean’s western boundary current — for more than 500 years. By the volume of water it moves, the Gulf Stream is the largest of the western ...

The planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, are called terrestrial because they have a compact, rocky surface like Earth's terra firma. The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the ...