With the launch of lunar orbital stations & therefore the first Moon landing in years expected to require place this decade, scientists are increasingly setting… Read More »Autonomous Robot Miners Could Built Future Lunar Bases
How would you feel if, after many decades of searching, we found signs of extraterrestrial intelligence? Would you be consumed by wonder & excitement or… Read More »SETI: Future of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Pluto was discovered through a careful, systematic search, unlike Neptune, whose position was calculated from gravitational theory. Nevertheless, the history of the look for Pluto… Read More »Is Pluto A Planet?
In the 1990s, European scientists decided to develop a more ambitious mission that would match the orbit of an approaching comet and follow it as… Read More »The Rosetta Comet Mission
Astronomers refer to all matter between the stars as interstellar matter; The entire collection of interstellar matter is called the interstellar medium (ISM). Some interstellar… Read More »The Interstellar Medium
Orbit X-ray observatories have shown that the galaxy is filled with bubbles of hot gas, X ray emitting gas. They also showed a diffuse X-ray… Read More »Interstellar Matter Around The Sun
Although regions like Orion give us clues as to how star formation begins, the later stages are still mysterious (and a lot of dust). There… Read More »The Birth Of A Star
Every giant planet has a strong magnetic field, generated by the rapidly rotating current inside. The magnetospheres of the planets are connected to magnetic fields,… Read More »Magnetic Fields Of Giant Planets
Many local disturbances, weather systems or storms are superimposed on the regular atmospheric circulation patterns just described, in order to adopt the term we use… Read More »Giant Storms On Giant Planets
Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system and has many craters. We can use the crater counts on solid worlds to estimate the… Read More »Ganymede, The Largest Moon