As NASA continues to make progress toward sending astronauts to the lunar South Pole region with its Artemis campaign, data from a NASA-funded study is helping scientists better understand this…
Category: Space
Antarctic volcano may hold clues to life on Mars
The volcano has been active for thousands of years, erupting most recently in 1967, 1969 and 1970, devastating British and Chilean bases and forcing the evacuation of an Argentine base.…
Asteroid making its closest approach to Earth this week
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain On 4 February, asteroid 2011 MD will make its closest approach to the Earth. Though it will not be visible with the naked eye, the asteroid…
Ariane 6 test model cryogenic system disconnection
Credit: European Space Agency Teams from ESA, France’s space agency CNES and ArianeGroup successfully completed the disconnection and retraction of the Ariane 6 cryogenic systems on 30 January 2024. These…
Stunning Spiral Galaxies Seen in New James Webb Space Telescope Images
A set of highly detailed images of 19 nearby spiral galaxies from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have been publicly released. The suite of extraordinary images will provide several…
Starving Mass Monster – Technology Org
With the upgraded GRAVITY instrument at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer of the European Southern Observatory, a team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics has…
An X-ray Image of Half the Universe
First eROSITA sky-survey data release makes public the largest ever catalogue of high-energy cosmic sources. X-ray astronomy has an eventful 60-year history of exploring the extremes of the universe, from…
Dream Chaser spaceplane passes vibration test
The first vessel of a planned line, Tenacity, was completed at the company’s factory in Louisville, Colorado in November and then shipped to NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky,…
Discovery of a Planet Too Big for Its Sun Throws Off Solar System Formation Models
The discovery of a planet that is far too massive for its sun is calling into question what was previously understood about the formation of planets and their solar systems,…
