When you peer into the night sky, much of what you see is plasma, a…
An article published in the SPIE publication Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS), “Polarization Modeling…
The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) coordinated a cross-organisational observing campaign of the asteroid 1999…
The first minerals to form in the universe were nanocrystalline diamonds, which condensed from gases…
Moons orbiting planets outside our solar system could offer another clue about the pool of…
It’s one of the greatest and longest-running mysteries surrounding, quite literally, our sun–why is its…
In this image, numerous sweeping arcs seem to congregate at various bright regions. You may…
Astronomers using the Gemini Observatory explore Neptune’s largest moon Triton and observe, for the first…
Wind has shaped the face of Mars for millennia, but its exact role in piling…
The results of recent study conducted by the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the agency’s automatic interplanetary station,…
