The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, snapping images of a newly named impact crater as well as tectonic and volcanic curiosities…
Category: Astronomy
New Space Companies Join Copernicus
With commercial companies playing an increasingly important role in creating a dynamic and innovative space industry, nine New Space satellite data suppliers have joined the Copernicus program as ‘Contributing Missions’.…
Space Exploration Without Spending Millions: How?
Did you know that for the price of a brand new large utility vehicle, you could instead send your very own small satellite to the International Space Station and out…
Exoplanet Secrets About the Edge of Habitability
How close can a rocky exoplanet be to a star and still sustain water and life? Artist impression showing the exoplanet LP 890-9c’s potential evolution from a hot Earth to…
Phosphate, Key Building Block of Life, Found on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
An international team including a University of Washington scientist has found that the water on one of Saturn’s moons harbors phosphates, a key building block of life. The team led…
NASA’s Webb Proves Galaxies Transformed the Early Universe
In the early universe, the gas between stars and galaxies was opaque – energetic starlight could not penetrate it. But the gas had become completely transparent 1 billion years after…
Galaxies Deep Dive, Leave Fiery Tail Behind
A group of galaxies is plunging into the Coma galaxy cluster and leaving behind an enormous tail of superheated gas. Coma cluster of galaxies. Image credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/SAO/Univ. of…
Black Hole Shadow and Powerful Jet Seen Together
This is what the black hole’s shadow looks like when it is cast on the powerful relativistic jet emanating from the center of the radio galaxy. This is the shadow…
DESI Early Data Release Holds Nearly 2 Million Cosmic Objects
The universe is big, and it’s getting bigger. To study dark energy, the mysterious force behind the accelerating expansion of our universe, scientists are using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)…
NASA’s New Detectors – Better Views of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Using technology similar to that found in smartphone cameras, NASA scientists are developing upgraded sensors to reveal more details about black hole outbursts and exploding stars — all while being…
