10 Wild Things Astronomers Discovered While Chasing Something Else

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

Study finds moon's far side may be colder than near side

A new British study swirled new evidence on the moon's frigid space temperatures, suggesting its different sides hold vastly ...

Simulations show Saturn's moon Enceladus shoots less ice into space than previous estimates

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

Scientists have just made a major discovery about the dark side of the moon

Among them is Professor Yang Li, a geoscientist at Beijing’s Peking University and an honorary professor at the University ...
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NASA’s First-Ever Alien-Hunting Space Telescope Could Enlighten Our New Dark Age

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

Surveying Io's Surface with the UNAGI lander

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 ...