The InSight lander has been on the surface of Mars for about a year, and a half dozen papers were…
The NASA and DLR InSight lander has been on Mars for over a year now. The mission has faced significant…
Earth and Pluto don't have much in common. Earth is a vibrant, living world, whereas Pluto is cold, distant and…
Astronomers have discovered another candidate exoplanet orbiting our neighbor, Proxima Centauri. A paper announcing these results was just published in…
Our eyes can't see them, but Martian auroras are there, and more commonplace than we once thought. The Martian auroras…
There's a problem with Venus. We don't know how fast it rotates. For a space-faring civilization like ours, that's a…
From some viewpoints, Mars is kind of like a skeleton of Earth. We can see that it had volcanoes, oceans,…
Jupiter's moon Io is in stark contrast to the other three Galilean moons. While Callisto, Ganymede, and Europa all appear…
The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission to Saturn and its moons two years ago when it was sent plunging into…
Earth's magnetic poles drift over time. This is something that every airplane pilot or navigator knows. They have to account…