(Left) Photograph of lunar soil and (Right) SEM image of the Cu/lunar soil. The scale bar represents 20 μm. Credit: Science China Press Building up a lunar settlement has been...
Zombie world poster. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech All stars, including the sun, have a finite lifetime. Stars shine by the process of nuclear fusion in which lighter atoms, such as hydrogen, fuse...
A concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples of rock and soil collected from the Martian surface by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech...
This is not an ethereal landscape of time-forgotten tombs. Nor are these soot-tinged fingers reaching out. These pillars, flush with gas and dust, ‘enshroud’ stars that are slowly forming over...
This illustration, updated as of June 2020, depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU NASA announced Friday the agency decided its Psyche mission will go forward, targeting a launch period opening...
Host-subtracted F555W-band HST image of SN 2016adj on +1991 days, with the positions of LE1, LE2, LE3, and LE4 highlighted by colored rings and labeled. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal Letters...
Boulder-size blocks of water ice can be seen around the rim of an impact crater on Mars, as viewed by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE camera) aboard NASA’s Mars...
This illustration shows NASA’s Lunar Flashlight over the Moon. The SmallSat mission will have a very elongated orbit, taking it within 9 miles (15 kilometers) above the lunar South Pole...