"We believe that continuing such activities will further expand our horizon in the field of planetary science." ...

Now, researchers at the University of Greifswald and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany, have shown that water tornadoes can also provide a surprisingly good analog ...

Researchers from the University of Greifswald and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg (both in ...

The findings suggest that sufficiently small particles introduced into the laboratory vortex should behave similarly to dust ...

On July 1, 2025, astronomers caught sight of a mysterious object racing through the solar system. This object, now named ...

A new laboratory experiment uses a water vortex to investigate how planets form from material in protoplanetary gas and dust ...

Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array is marking the 20th anniversary of its first scientific results, published in the July 20, 2005, issue of the ...

Dr John Grunsfeld, former astronaut, NASA chief scientist, and retired associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission ...

In an unexpected twist, two Earth-based weather satellites, Himawari-8 and Himawari-9, have provided invaluable data on Venus ...

This year, the alert system for defending the planet against incoming space rocks was activated for the first time. It won’t be the last ...

A team of interdisciplinary UCF researchers are leading a NASA research project to prevent abrasive, harmful lunar dust ...

About 20 miles north of Pittsburgh, the charming borough of Mars has fully embraced its planetary namesake with an out-of-this-world monument that makes other town squares look downright mundane by ...