Abdellahi Sow uses the VENUS apparatus, which offers researchers insight into how life can form in space. Credit: Emanuele Congiu Called VENUS, the device will…
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During this next phase, the program will mature critical technologies and make critical design decisions as well as assess industry partnerships. NASA and ESA (European…
A fragment of the Murchison meteorite, one of the three carbon-rich meteorites that was sampled in this study. Credit: Daniel P. Glavin Scientists from Japan…
Artist’s impression of flare from our neighbouring star Proxima Centauri ejecting material onto a nearby planet. Credit: Mark Myers/OzGrav Stellar Flares With a Chance of…
View of asteroid Ryugu from Hayabusa 2. Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo & collaborators Just weeks after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a successful touch-and-go grab of samples…
Illustration of solar wind flowing over asteroids in the early solar system. The magnetic field of the solar wind (white line/arrows) magnetizes the asteroid (red…
On December 6 local time (December 5 in the United States), Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 dropped a capsule to the ground of the Australian Outback from…
Scientists at Woomera conduct a ‘dress rehearsal’ for finding and collecting the Hayabusa2 sample capsule when it lands. Credit: Trevor Ireland, ANU A Japanese space…
An international study led by the University of Turku discovered phosphorus and fluorine in solid dust particles collected from a comet. The finding indicates that…
A vertically exaggerated, false-color view of a large, water-carved channel on Mars called Dao Vallis. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. 3D rendered and…
The dusty side of the Sword of Orion is illuminated in this striking infrared image from the European Space Agency’s Hershel Space Observatory. This immense…
This artist’s conception of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa shows a hypothesized cryovolcanic eruption, in which briny water from within the icy shell blasts into space.…
This illustration depicts Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone. Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle Since astronomers confirmed…
NASA’s Perseverance rover, shown in this artistic rendering, will land at Mars’ Jezero Crater in February 2021 and will start gathering soil samples soon after…
Scientists recently reported the discovery of the gas phosphine around Venus, which may point to microbial life. Venus is the second planet from the sun…
Are we alone in the universe? It is one of the most profound questions posed in modern astronomy. But although our understanding of the cosmos…
Artist’s depiction of astronauts drilling for water on Mars during a future manned mission to the red planet. Credit: NASA Langley Advanced Concepts Lab/Analytical Mechanics…
Catherine Neish is counting the days until her space launch. While the Western planetary geologist isn’t space-suiting up for her own interstellar voyage, she is…
Perseverance’s Radar Imager for Mars’ Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) uses radar waves to probe the ground, revealing the unexplored world that lies beneath the Martian surface.…
Artist’s concept of meteoriteAnimation inspired by the bright, burning glow of meteors as they enter Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Declan McKenna During…