The Sun Drives Martian Dust Storms
Mission-ending dust storms on Mars may be due to excess energy from the Sun collecting in the desert landscape and driving the formation of the storms.
Former Planet Ceres Moved to Asteroid Belt
In trying to understand why Ceres’ misty exosphere contains ammonia, simulations find that the dwarf planet formed past Saturn and moved inward.
Confirmed: Aurorae can be Noisy
A retired professor may have found the evidence that explains why strange sounds can sometimes be head when there is an aurora in the sky.
Astronomers Map 3D Cloud Structures
Researchers combine stellar location data from the Gaia mission with maps from the WISE and 2MASS catalogs to create 3D images of two clouds.
A Small Sombrero for Hubble
Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys captures a stunning image of NGC 7184, the Little Sombrero Galaxy, to help understand star formation.
Hubble Catches Giant in the Head of the Serpent
Elliptical galaxy UGC10143, in the center of galaxy cluster Abell 2147, is imaged using the Hubble and Pan-STARRS telescopes.
On the Hunt to Understand Really Old Rocks
Using radioactive dating, researchers found that the mantle underneath New Guinea melted sometime in the past 540 million years.
Building Block of Life’s Origin Found
A team of scientists has uncovered just how one major life-building element – carbon-12 – was produced in stellar explosions.
iSpace Hyperbola-1 Fails Again
Chinese company iSpace launched their fourth Hyperbola-1 rocket and, like the three previous attempts, the launch failed.
More Starlink, as if We Haven’t had Enough of Them
Over the weekend, SpaceX launched two more sets of 53 Starlink satellites in a pair of bicoastal launches, one of which used a brand new booster.
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