Juno Spacecraft Discovers the Hexagon-Shaped Storm on Jupiter's South Pole

ENERGY 12.18.2019 08:53 AM

The Juno spacecraft was able to discover the giant storm during its death-dodging flyby last November 3 and it was observed that the Texas-sized storm is made up of six other cyclones.

SpaceX 2020 Mission: Send Coffee to ISS

12.18.2019 06:36 AM

Experiments like this create a path to understanding how plants will adapt to extreme environments like the zero-gravity setting of the International Space Station and enable agribusinesses like Front Range Biosciences to breed crops that can withstand harsh environments and can adapt to climate change.

OSIRIS-REx Sets Its Eyes on Nightingale Crater to Collect Samples from Asteroid Bennu

12.17.2019 06:43 AM

Fun fact: Asteroid Bennu's craters are named after birds; Osprey, Kingfisher, Sandpiper, and Nightingale.

Saturn's Moon Enceladus' Tiger Stripes Origin Explained

12.16.2019 09:05 AM

As seen from space, Saturn's moon Enceladus has a pure white surface save for a series of long fissures in its southern region which kind of looked like tiger stripes.

Modified MAVEN Spacecraft Found Surprising Data About the Circulation Patterns on Mars

12.13.2019 06:17 AM

The journal details the findings that were collected by the modified MAVEN spacecraft from 2016 to 2018 and there were a lot of surprises for the astronomers.

NASA's Space Launch System Rocket Successful in Tank Testing

12.12.2019 09:18 AM

NASA's Space Launch System rocket aims to launch astronauts to deep space missions and its first gig is to send astronauts and large cargo to the Moon via the Orion spacecraft.

Full Cold Moon and the Planets Venus and Saturn Will Visible in the Skies This Week!

12.11.2019 10:57 AM

Telescopes out! This week experience the spectacle of the Full Cold Moon and the Venus-Saturn Conjunction

Concrete Climate Solutions are the Key to End These Climate Protests

12.11.2019 10:49 AM

With the lack of concrete climate solutions, Greta Thunberg says that the school strikes over the past year have achieved nothing.

Whale Galaxy's Magnetic Field Observed: Astronomers Found One of the Largest Magnetic Fields

12.07.2019 07:16 AM

In an image captured by the Very Large Array in New Mexico, the Whale Galaxy appears to have hair-like filaments sticking out.

Massive Black Hole Found in the Milky Way

12.06.2019 08:01 AM

As seen in their chemical composition, these massive stars lose most of their mass through explosions and powerful stellar winds then it will collapse into a black hole.

Space Laser Tracks Earth's Largest Migration Via The Ocean

12.06.2019 07:53 AM

This article talks about on how space lasers track the Earth's biggest migration via the seas. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Scientists have used space lasers to track the migration of ocean creatures.

Marine Nitrogen Cycle is Starting to Become Unstable Due to the Decrease in Oxygen Levels in the Ocean

12.05.2019 08:42 AM

This is an alarming claim since these feedback mechanics—which scientists call 'the Nitrostat'—keep the marine nitrogen cycle stable for over geologic time.

What Happens When Andromeda Galaxy Crashes Into The Milky Way?

12.05.2019 08:10 AM

This article talks about on what could possibly happen when Andromeda Galaxy crashes into the Milky Way.

Dust Storms May Have Caused the Disappearance of Water from the Red Planet

12.05.2019 07:28 AM

Astronomers believed that these dust particles once trapped water vapor and had used these dust towers like an elevator to rise to the planet's atmosphere where solar radiation would eventually break their molecules apart.

Earth's Magnetic Field Produces Music During a Solar Storm

12.05.2019 07:22 AM

The sound waves were collected through ESA's Cluster mission which consists of four spacecraft that are designed to study the Earth's magnetic field and how it reacts and interacts with the particles coming from the Sun.