Comet impacts could bring life ingredients to Jupiter’s moon Europa
Comet strikes on Jupiter’s moon Europa could help transport critical ingredients for life found on the moon’s surface to its hidden ocean of liquid...
Want to build structures on the moon? Just blast the regolith with microwaves
Microwaves are useful for more than just heating up leftovers.
They can also make landing pads on other worlds – at least according to research...
The solar wind is creating water on the surface of the moon
Now, a new study shows that those soil samples contain water and that the Sun’s solar wind directly impacted that water.
What will it take to survive the lunar night
With the help of international and commercial partners, NASA is sending astronauts back to the Moon for the first time in over fifty years.
In...
Is the Milky Way… normal?
Studying the large-scale structure of our galaxy isn’t easy.
We don’t have a clear view of the Milky Way’s shape and features like we do...
The universe is brighter than we thought
Over seven years ago, the New Horizons mission made history when it became the first spacecraft to conduct a flyby of Pluto.
Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, shows study
Earth has a "stabilizing feedback" mechanism that acts over hundreds of thousands of years.
The Earth's climate has undergone big changes, from global volcanism to...
Machine learning reveals how black holes grow
As different as they may seem, black holes and Las Vegas have one thing in common:
What happens there stays there – much to the...
How to discover life on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus
Surrounded by a vast ocean underneath a thick ice shell, Enceladus is a hot candidate for potentially harboring alien life.
A team of researchers...
Webb telescope sees through dust to find young stars
Images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope contain telltale signs of two dozen previously unseen young stars about 7,500 light years from Earth, say...