Amy Mainzer, Ph.D., is an astronomer and astrophysicist. She is one of the world’s leading asteroid hunters at NASA and the host of a popular children’s show about astronomy. In September, Mainzer ...

Representation of the orbit of the star 232121.57-160505.4 in the Galactocentric cartesian frame, colour coded according to the time. The white dot represents the current position of the star. The ...

Abstract: Saturn’s moons are among the most compelling destinations for future planetary exploration, offering unique opportunities to investigate ocean worlds, plume activity, and the conditions for ...

The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary has positioned itself as a serious science fiction effort, one that consulted real space scientists and drew from actual astrophysics research. But ...

On Wednesday, the Washington-based space company Blue Origin posted a job opening for a position titled “Blue Ring Senior Program Manager.” However, the posting to the company’s Workday “Careers” page ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

A problem of determining attainable landing sites on the surface of Venus is an essential part of the Venera-D project aimed to explore the planet using a lander. This problem appears due to the ...