Using data from the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument from the New Horizons July 2015 flyby, scientists have for the first time observed the material coming off of Pluto’s atmosphere and studied how it interacts with the solar wind, leading to yet another “Pluto surprise.”
Space physicists say that they now have a treasure trove of information about how Pluto’s atmosphere interacts with the solar wind.
An older technology once de rigueur for preventing spacecraft gadgetry from getting too hot or too cold has been resurrected and repurposed for an emerging class of small satellites now playing an increasingly larger role in space exploration, technology demonstration, and scientific research.
Mars still has active volcanoes under the ice sheets covering the red planet, according to the data that has been collected.
NASA has found a dwarf star with promising planets orbiting it around 40 light years away.
Particularly fascinating is the surface color and horizon, appearing more similar to what we see on Earth compared to many of the deep red images we have presented in the past where the red Martian atmosphere dominates.
A powerful combination of observations and computer simulations is giving new clues to how the moon got its mysterious “tattoos” — swirling patterns of light and dark found at over a hundred locations across the lunar surface.
NASA engineers recently unveiled the giant golden mirror of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope as part of the integration and testing of the infrared telescope.
Blazars from distant galaxies from have given scientists neutrinos with information from distant space.
The study of these galaxies within galaxies will bring scientists one step closer to discovering the properties of dark matter.
