Artist depiction of future lunar astronauts. Credit: NASA When astronauts return to the moon in the next few years, the plan is to have them stay for good while establishing…
Category: Space
A key experiment for the LIFE space mission
With a constellation of five satellites, the international LIFE initiative led by ETH Zurich hopes to one day detect traces of life on exoplanets. A laboratory experiment in the Department…
What to know about 1st test flight of SpaceX’s big Starship
This undated photo provided by SpaceX shows the company’s Starship rocket at the launch site in Boca Chica, Texas. Credit: SpaceX via AP Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to take…
SpaceX will try to launch most powerful rocket ever Monday
A prototype of Starship, a huge rocket made by SpaceX, sits on a launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas in February 2022. SpaceX plans to carry out its first test flight…
Watch SpaceX Dragon cargo ship depart space station today
A robotic SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule will return to Earth today (April 15), and you can watch the action live. The Dragon is scheduled to undock from the International Space…
Newborn Earth made its own water, study suggests
Contrary to a popular theory that icy comets or asteroids delivered water to a dry newborn Earth, the planet itself may have produced its earliest water supply, a new study…
How do we know how far away and early in the universe galaxies are?
Since it started delivering its first results in July 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been supplying stunning images of the universe that include observations of the most…
Relive launch of Europe’s JUICE Jupiter mission in stunning photos
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched its flagship Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission on Friday (April 14), producing some stunning images in the process. The Ariane 5 rocket carrying…
Surface shaking could trigger landslides
Examples of ridge-and-trough terrains from the four studied icy satellites. Arrows point along representative scarps in each example. (a) Boundary between Harpagia Sulcus and Nicholson Regio, Ganymede (Planetary Data System…
Primordial black holes may have ‘frozen’ the early universe
Artist’s logarithmic scale conception of the observable universe with the Solar System at the center, inner and outer planets, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, Alpha Centauri, Perseus Arm, Milky Way galaxy,…
