Lava worlds, massive exoplanets home to sparkling skies and roiling volcanic seas called magma oceans, are distinctly unlike the planets in our solar system. Lava world – artistic interpretation. Image…
Category: Space
Improving Detection of Gravitational Waves
A Cardiff University undergraduate has collaborated with academics from the US on a project to improve gravitational waves detectors at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) as part of a…
Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1: Insights into Atmosphere and Star
A new study of the intriguing TRAPPIST-1 exoplanetary system has demonstrated the complex interaction between the activity of the system’s star and its planetary features. Astronomers led by a team…
Listening to the radio on the far side of the moon
This artist’s rendering shows LuSEE-Night atop the Blue Ghost spacecraft scheduled to deliver the experiment to the far side of the moon. Credit: Firefly Aerospace There are unexplored regions of…
The Universe Caught Suppressing Cosmic Structure Growth
Scientists expect large cosmic structures to grow at a certain rate as the universe evolves: dense regions such as galaxy clusters would grow denser, while the void of space would…
Getting a Firm Grip on Robotics Research
Christian Hable and Matthew Zhu, two students from Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia, displayed an interest in engineering and robotics that began in early childhood when both explored designing…
Historic wind tunnel facility testing NASA’s Mars ascent vehicle rocket
A scale model of the Mars Ascent Vehicle is loaded by Wind Tunnel Test Engineer Sam Schmitz into the trisonic wind tunnel at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center for testing.…
SPHEREx Space Telescope Stays Cool in Basement
NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has been tucked inside a custom-built chamber on and off for the past two months undergoing tests to prepare it for its two-year mission in space. …
NASA’s first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft
This image taken from video provided by NASA TV shows the capsule released by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft lying on the surface near the parachute after landing to Earth, Sunday Sept.…
Webb Snaps Supersonic Outflow of Young Star
This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope image features Herbig-Haro 211 (HH 211), a bipolar jet traveling through interstellar space at supersonic speeds. At roughly 1000 light-years from Earth in…
