A drag sail that a team at Purdue University developed to pull launch vehicles in space back…
DISCOVERY
Here Comes the Sun: Planetary Scientists Find Evidence of Solar-Driven Change on the Moon
Tiny iron nanoparticles unlike any found naturally on Earth are nearly everywhere on the Moon—and…
Mars: Scientists Determine Crustal Thickness
Based on the analysis of marsquakes recorded by NASA’s InSight mission, the structure of Mars’s…
Insight Mission: Mars Unveiled
Using information obtained from around a dozen earthquakes detected on Mars by the Very Broad…
The Anatomy of a Planet
Since early 2019, researchers have been recording and analysing marsquakes as part of the InSight…
Astronomers Make First Clear Detection of a Moon-Forming Disc Around an Exoplanet
Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is…
SuperBIT: A Low-Cost Balloon-Borne Telescope to Rival Hubble
Durham, Toronto and Princeton Universities have teamed up with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency…
Long-Period Oscillations of the Sun Discovered
High-latitude inertial mode The east-west velocity associated with the retrograde propagating mode of oscillation. Left:…
New Method Predicts ‘Stealth’ Solar Storms Before They Wreak Geomagnetic Havoc on Earth
On 23 July 2012, humanity escaped technological and economic disaster. A diffuse cloud of magnetized…
Boundary of Heliosphere Mapped for the First Time
For the first time, the boundary of the heliosphere has been mapped, giving scientists a…
