9+ min ago  (297+ words) Rebaccca Trager over at" Chemistry World posted something that appears, at first glance, to be a silly April Fools" joke. Trager"s summary of a Nature Communications paper reports on some odd chemicals that appear to have been detected on…...

13+ hour, 18+ min ago  (447+ words) Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System's most important "planet factories" hidden just beyond Jupiter....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (613+ words) Data from Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander casts doubt on the decades-old view of the moon as divided between a hotter near side and cooler far side. The first science results from a private spacecraft on the moon are…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1284+ words) Mars colonization has shifted from science fiction to a long-term planning exercise for governments and private companies, driven by decades of Mars missions that have mapped the planet in remarkable detail. These robotic pathfinders are helping agencies understand Mars' surface,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (598+ words) In the 1960s, the United States won the space race decisively by planting the American flag firmly on the moon. Over the next five years, 12 NASA astronauts walked on the moon before the Apollo program, one of the most expensive and…...

9+ hour, 50+ min ago  (198+ words) The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will continue its summer planetarium season Wednesday with a series of free public shows at the Allen F. Blocher Planetarium. Shows are scheduled for 7 p. m. Mondays and Wednesdays through June and are open to the public. Each…...

8+ hour, 34+ min ago  (543+ words) Every morning on the giant exoplanet WASP-94 A b, clouds made from rocky minerals gather across the sky. By evening, those clouds are gone. Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered this dramatic daily weather cycle…...

7+ hour, 22+ min ago  (661+ words) Mercury may have accumulated all its water ice deposits in just 'one day' starlust. org Mercury may have accumulated all its water ice deposits in just 'one day' With Mercury being the closest to the Sun, the temperatures on the…...

15+ hour, 12+ min ago  (188+ words) Another key discovery was TOI-1338 b, which was the first circumbinary exoplanet discovered by TESS, which are exoplanets that orbit two stars, with the stars in the TOI-1338 system being an F-type star at approximately 10 percent larger than our Sun…...

18+ hour, 19+ min ago  (488+ words) Astronomers analysing the atmosphere of the planet TOI-199b detected methane and other gases, providing new insight into how planetary systems form and evolve. According to a new study, TOI-199b is similar in size to Saturn and belongs to a rare…...