NASA’s Perseverance rover captured this view of the location where it will be parked for several weeks during Mars solar conjunction, a period when engineers stop sending commands to spacecraft…
Category: Space
World-First Zero Space Debris Charter Goes Live
More satellites were launched in the last few years than the entire six decades of space exploration. 130 million pieces of space debris larger than a millimetre orbit Earth, threatening…
First Images from Euclid – Journey Into Cosmic Web Begins
The Euclid mission is the first to deliver images from nearby regions of the Universe. The spacecraft can record the data from an area of the sky more than one…
Construction on NASA mission to map 450 million galaxies is under way
Sara Susca, deputy payload manager and payload systems engineer for NASA’s SPHEREx mission, looks up at one of the spacecraft’s photon shields. These concentric cones protect the telescope from light…
NASA’s ‘Occult’ Science For Weather Forecasters
Radio occultation, pioneered by NASA for other planets, offers cheaper, better Earth weather data. Spire Global currently has the most radio occultation satellites in orbit, having outfitted 40 of its…
Astronomers are hoping to detect gravitational waves coming from supernova 1987A
Hubble Space Telescope image of SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA A supernova explosion is a cataclysmic explosion that marks the violent end of a massive star’s life.…
Record-Breaking Black Hole Discovered by NASA Telescopes
Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet seen in X-rays, using NASA telescopes. The black hole is at an early stage of growth that had never been witnessed…
The Oldest Known X-ray Quasar Identified
Yale’s Priyamvada Natarajan and colleagues have identified the oldest known X-ray quasar — offering compelling proof of a concept Natarajan helped pioneer. Astronomers have found the oldest-known X-ray quasar in…
