6+ hour, 48+ min ago   (334+ words) Harrison "Jack" Schmitt shouted, "There is orange soil!" during Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater, where the unexpected patch later proved to be thousands of microscopic glass beads. What looked like ordinary lunar soil was tied to ancient volcanic activity on the…...

4+ hour, 31+ min ago   (1255+ words) Plasma bubbles in the ionosphere over equatorial and low-latitude regions are a common nighttime plasma density depletion structure that can cause severe scintillation interference on high-frequency communications, making them an important target of space weather monitoring. Traditional detection methods rely…...

5+ hour, 20+ min ago   (1383+ words) With growing concerns over the impact threat of near-Earth small bodies and the utilization of space resources, the orbital evolution of binary asteroid systems has become an important subject in space science. When describing the full two-body dynamics of such…...

3+ hour, 41+ min ago   (1152+ words) Pluto’s surface stays at about −393°F (−236°C), cold enough that nitrogen there isn’t a gas at all but a glacier miles deep. Nothing about a world that cold suggests liquid could be flowing on its surface. But dark streaks along…...

4+ hour, 56+ min ago   (651+ words) 18/08/2026 2541 views 43 likes A new study – guided by flyby images from ESA’s Hera asteroid mission – suggests that Mars’s small outer moon Deimos has been dramatically reshaped by a single violent asteroid impact. This would account for its mysteriously smooth and youthful…...

6+ hour, 17+ min ago   (497+ words) For years, Venus seemed to follow a movement pattern scientists thought they understood. A new study suggests the truth may be far more complex, hidden beneath the planet's dense cloud cover. A new study indicates that scientists may have been…...

5+ hour, 58+ min ago   (1227+ words) Mirage News With growing concerns over the impact threat of near-Earth small bodies and the utilization of space resources, the orbital evolution of binary asteroid systems has become an important subject in space science. When describing the full two-body dynamics…...

8+ hour, 6+ min ago   (639+ words) Only one spacecraft from Earth has ever visited Pluto. That was New Horizons in 2015. It found that Pluto has an extremely thin, but hazy, atmosphere made mostly of nitrogen. But we knew before New Horizons that Pluto’s atmosphere should thicken…...

7+ hour, 59+ min ago   (1370+ words) What if a planet just 2.5 times wider than Earth packed more than 23 Earths’ worth of mass inside it? That is the strange case of GJ 523b, a newly characterised world that is forcing astronomers to take a closer look at how…...

4+ hour, 49+ min ago   (270+ words) Uranus does not look particularly strange. From a distance, it is simply a pale blue-green world quietly orbiting the Sun beyond Saturn. It has an …...