Discovery of a Doomed Planet
This hot jupiter exoplanet is doomed. Hot jupiters are giant planets like Jupiter that orbit much closer to their parent stars than Mercury does to our Sun.
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Jupiter’s enigmatic Magnetic Field
NASA’s robotic Juno spacecraft has found that Jupiter’s magnetic field is surprisingly complex, so that the Jovian world does not have single magnetic poles like our Earth.
The Red Planet is alive with a lot of Quakes
A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA’s InSight lander mission.
Designing a Venus Rover
NASA wants your help designing a Venus rover, like this one possible wind-powered conceptual vehicle.
Rotating Detonation Engine
A new type of engine called ‘rotating detonation engine,’ promises to make rockets not only more fuel-efficient but also more lightweight and less complicated to construct.
Ancient Lake across the Sahara discovered
About 7,000 years ago, a vast lake spread hundreds of square kilometers across north-central Africa, the biggest lake on Earth today.
SpaceX Crew Dragon to carry Tourists into Orbit
Space Adventures announces collaboration with SpaceX to send private citizens into orbit, on the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
The Pale Blue Dot
A recent update to this historic portrait on Valentine’s Day in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, showing Earth as a tiny speck surrounded by the vastness
A Space Hotel attached to the ISS
NASA has selected Axiom Space of Houston to provide at least one habitable commercial module to be attached to the International Space Station.
Solar Orbiter sets sail for the Sun
Here comes the Sun! ESA’s new Sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter lofted to space aboard the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA’s spaceport in Cape Canaveral, Florida