"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 ...

Compound, or catadioptric, telescopes combine lenses and mirrors for a compact option, suitable for both planetary and ...

An unknown object slammed into Saturn, possibly marking the first time a collision with the planet has been witnessed in real-time.

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the ...

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

Located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, the world's most powerful digital camera is set to transform how we see the universe.

The NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory has officially begun its journey to map the universe, and it started with a remarkable feat: ...

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 ...