Moons are planets too
What makes a planet a planet? The answer turns out to be rather contentious. The official definition of a planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is that a planet must satisfy three conditions:.....»»
Will Starfield come to PS5?
Xbox and PC players are exploring the endless planets of Bethesda's new RPG Starfield, but PS5 owners have been left out. Will Starfield ever come to PS5?.....»»
How to set a course in Starfield
There are hundreds of planets across dozens of solar systems in Starfield. Setting a course is the fastest way to get to your objective, so here's how to do it......»»
This secret Starfield feature helps you keep track of unexplored planets
It turns out Starfield has a hidden feature to help you chart your way across the galaxy......»»
Starfield: Tips for Busy People
Starfield: Tips for Busy People is a post by Adam Mills from Gotta Be Mobile. A lot of people can spend hours upon hours exploring Starfield’s cities, planets, and secrets. Many others can’t. In this guide I’ll outline some tips tha.....»»
Starfield’s most impressive feature misses what makes Skyrim so memorable
Starfield filled a universe with hundreds of planets, but there are few memorable moments linking them together......»»
NASA’s skywatching tips for September include rare glimpse of ‘zodiacal light’
There's plenty to catch in the skies this month, including three planets, a Harvest Moon, and, if you're lucky, a zodiacal light......»»
How to land on planets in Starfield
Are you stuck in orbit trying to get to the planet's surface in Starfield? We'll talk you through the landing protocols so you can land safely on the surface......»»
Impressions: Starfield’s sheer scale is already giving me vertigo
Hundreds of planets, hundreds of quests, but is there anything worth seeing? Enlarge / We are all but specks amid Starfield's vast cosmos. There's a quote from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that.....»»
Dense Neptune-sized exoplanet discovered with TESS
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new massive and dense exoplanet. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-332 b, is one of the densest Neptune-sized planets known to dat.....»»
Chicago stargazers find more light pollution and wildfires are obscuring the skies
Some of Drew Carhart's earliest memories remind him of his love of nature. Not just trees, flowers or birds—but the stars, planets and galaxies visible in the night sky......»»
A new approach to reduce the risk of losing solar-powered rovers on the moon
NASA and other space agencies worldwide periodically send robots and automated vehicles into space to explore planets and other celestial objects in our solar system. These missions can greatly improve our understanding of the environment and resourc.....»»
Scientists review the trajectory design and optimization for Jovian system exploration
The Jovian system has long attracted the interest of human exploration. However, Jupiter and its four Galilean moons form a unique and complex multi-body dynamical environment that greatly challenges trajectory design and optimization......»»
An exoplanet is getting vaporized but is trying to hide it
Hydrogen should be constantly boiled off, but we're not always seeing it. Enlarge / Artist's conception of the atmosphere being blasted off an exoplanet. (credit: NASA, ESA, and Joseph Olmsted (STScI)) Some planets canno.....»»
A "Jupiter" hotter than the sun
The search for exoplanets—planets that orbit stars located beyond the borders of our solar system—is a hot topic in astrophysics. Of the various types of exoplanets, one is hot in the literal sense: hot Jupiters, a class of exoplanets that are ph.....»»
A novel method uses gravity data to determine where density anomalies lie inside planetary bodies
Getting to know planets or moons inside out isn't easy. Like Earth and its moon, many celestial bodies are multilayered and can contain anomalous internal features that reflect the complex history of their formation, collisions with other bodies, and.....»»
Rogue planets may be more numerous than stars in our galaxy
Planets cast loose from their exosolar system are remarkably common. Enlarge / An artist's conception of an ice-encrusted rogue planet. (credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) Planets that go rogue orbit no star......»»
New property of hydrogen predicted
Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe. It determines the properties of stars and planets and is crucial for life on Earth—not least because of its role in climate-neutral energy supply. Generations of scientists in physics and chemist.....»»
Collisions between asteroids may lead to formation of metal asteroids able to generate and record magnetism: Study
Yale researchers may have solved a longstanding puzzle as to why certain metallic meteorites show traces of a magnetic field—a finding that may shed light on the formation of magnetic dynamos at the core of planets......»»
Earth"s most ancient impact craters are disappearing
Earth's oldest craters could give scientists critical information about the structure of the early Earth and the composition of bodies in the solar system as well as help to interpret crater records on other planets. But geologists can't find them, a.....»»
Chinese scientists complete a concept study for a 6-meter space telescope to find habitable exoplanets
We have discovered more than 5,400 planets in the universe. These worlds range from hot jovians that closely orbit their star to warm ocean worlds to cold gas giants. While we know they are there, we don't know much about them. Characteristics such a.....»»