What type of lander could touch down on Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io? This is what a recent paper presented at the AIAA 2025 Regional Student Conference hopes to address as a team of student engineers ...

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In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a ...

The entire progression will be observed by the ESA’s orbiters the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter as well as NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which will utilize the cutting edge HiRISA ...

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A respected Harvard astrophysicist believes one of the most famous signals ever sent to Earth could have been sent by the ...

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New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have delivered the first detailed weather report of a nearby rogue world, ...