NASA Juno mission captured amazing new imagery of Jupiter's moon Europa. The spacecraft flew about 219 miles (352 kilometers) over the surface of the moon. Credit: Space.com | imagery credit: Credit : ...
The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...
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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 ...
Scientists found Titan’s orbit is shifting faster than expected due to tidal dissipation. A recent cosmic event likely ...
To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...
To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...
Scientific groups like SETI have sketched out plans for first contact protocols, but both scientists and governments need to ...