Archaeologists should consider tapping into satellite imagery when assessing the impacts climate change can have on ancient underground structures, a new study argues. Satellite studies would be one tool to…
Category: Space
Senegal’s first satellite successfully launched
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Senegal’s first satellite has been successfully launched into orbit, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye said, adding the move marked a major step towards the West African country’s…
Supermassive black hole mergers could be explained by dark matter
A team of astrophysicists that includes the University of Toronto’s Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez has shown that pairs of supermassive black holes can merge together into a single, larger black hole – a major…
Scientists discover phenomenon impacting Earth’s radiation belts
This graphic shows a cutaway model of Earth’s radiation belts with the two Van Allen Probes satellites flying through them. Credit: NASA illustration Two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have…
Radio astronomers and satellite internet provider develop new sky-sharing system
New techniques developed by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) and SpaceX enable radio astronomy telescopes to operate without interference from satellite transmissions. The techniques…
Hubble rings in a new galactic view
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the galaxy LEDA 857074. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Chilingari The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is situated in the…
New research shows unprecedented atmospheric changes during May’s geomagnetic superstorm
Associate Professor and Crofton Faculty Fellow Scott England. Credit: Ben Murphy for Virginia Tech. On May 11, a gorgeous aurora surprised stargazers across the southern United States. That same weekend,…
What Boeing Starliner astronauts are doing on ISS as NASA works on their ride home
Boeing Starliner’s two NASA astronauts have been busy in space since arriving two months ago on the first-ever crewed Starliner mission. While astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were expected…
Research team releases a 76 m-per-pixel global color image dataset and map of Mars
A true color Mars global image map in Robinson projection is created with Tianwen-1 MoRIC image data, the resolution of the original data is ~76 m per pixel, and the…
India launching Earth-observing satellite tonight on 3rd mission of new rocket
India plans to launch an advanced Earth-observing satellite tonight (Aug. 15), on the third-ever mission of its new SSLV rocket. The Indian Space Research Organisation’s EOS-08 spacecraft is scheduled to…
