Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team; acknowledgement: Frédéric Auchère, IAS The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission has experienced its second close encounter with the sun. It is delivering more stunning data,...
Nowadays, all galaxies and galaxy clusters are thought to be dominated by dark matter—an elusive quantity whose nature astronomers are still working to determine. Abell 611, the glowing galaxy cluster...
An illustration of the Martian interior. Credit: Dr Sheng Wang and Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić/ANU Seismologists from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed a new method to scan the deep...
Wavefield simulation on Mars. First observation of surface waves on Mars reveals details of planet's crust. Kim et al., (2022) Science. Credit: ETH Zurich / Doyeon Kim, Martin van Driel,...
Locations of two large meteorite impacts (yellow circles) identified in MRO images. The great circle paths for S1094b R1 (solid) and R2 (dashed) are shown in white, and the R1...
Eruption light curve for KT Eri. All V-band observations are shown by the green diamonds, and all B-band observations are shown as small blue circles. Credit: Schaefer et al., 2022....
Color-coded topographic view shows the relative heights of features in Cerberus Fossae: reds and whites are relatively higher than blues and purples. The image is based on a digital terrain...
Artist’s conception of a neutron star merger and the resulting kilonova. Credit: Tohoku University A group of researchers has, for the first time, identified rare earth elements produced by neutron...
A composite image of SN 1987A from Hubble, Chandra, and ALMA. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/A. Angelich. Visible light image: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. X-Ray image: The NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory...
There has long been debate in the scientific community about whether Mars had an ocean in its low-elevation northern hemisphere. Using topography data, a Penn State led research team was...