Looking at the chemical composition of stars that host planets, astronomers have found that while dwarf stars often show iron enrichment on their surface, giant stars do not. The astronomers think ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced it tested last year a space suit design made in Norway, the group's first real ...

Volcanoes are one of nature’s most awe-inspiring creations, giant mountains ejecting red hot lava that are both beautiful and deadly. We recently explored why volcanoes are so astounding, but, did you ...

Researchers develop a model to describe the interaction between a rocket plume and the surface of a planetary body in near-vacuum conditions. The computational framework takes in information about the ...

Where Huskies are going, they make their own roads — even when they are headed to the moon. In a milestone in space construction technology, Michigan Tech's Planetary Surface Technology Development ...

This is what it would be like to walk on the surface of Venus. The surface of Venus is comparable to the bottom of Earth’s oceans with one major difference: Venus has the hottest planetary surface in ...

(Top to bottom) Surface crack patterns on three different worlds: Mars, Europa, and Earth that reveal how fractures form under vastly different environmental conditions. Penn geophysicist Douglas ...

Venus has long been painted as a featureless, molten world, its surface blurred by a suffocating atmosphere and crushing ...