Scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force. Understanding tidal dissipation ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

Scientists found Titan’s orbit is shifting faster than expected due to tidal dissipation. A recent cosmic event likely ...

The Reusable Revolution Since the first satellites were put into orbit with Sputnik in 1957, to the 1969 Moon landing, the 1971 first space station, and the 2001 first space tourist, all access to ...

After losing his Pacific Palisades neighborhood in the fires that swept through Los Angeles in January, Kent Tobiska, the CEO ...

NASA's Pandora satellite mission to document at least 20 known planets orbiting distant stars will start from SpaceX at its ...

The temporary belts, one of which still remains, were filled with high-energy electrons and protons and were found by a ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

Introduction to Solar Flares Solar flares are spectacular, yet potentially dangerous, eruptions of energy from the Sun's ...

2024's gigantic solar storm gave the Earth two new temporary radiation belts, according to NASA's CubeSat mission. One of these belts could stay in place for a "very long time", according to NASA ...