A strong quake in the last year of the NASA Mars InSight mission enabled researchers at ETH Zurich to determine the global thickness and density of the planet’s crust. On…
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Perseverance rover captures view of Mars’ Belva Crater
The 152 images that make up this mosaic of Belva Crater were taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on April 22, 2023, the 772nd Martian day,…
Going to the dark side: helping NASA understand moon’s origins
Over the next five years, Yale geophysicist Jun Korenaga will be part of a scientific project funded by NASA to study the origin and early development of the Earth’s moon.…
Are Earth and Venus the only volcanic planets? Not anymore.
Imagine an Earth-sized planet that’s not at all Earth-like. Half this world is locked in permanent daytime, the other half in permanent night, and it’s carpeted with active volcanoes. Astronomers…
Origami heat shield: Reusable for reentries
Credit: Space Forge A novel origami-based heat shield developed with ESA support is planned to be tested with an actual atmospheric reentry from space. Named Pridwen, after the legendary shield…
Hubble telescope finds double quasar in early universe
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made an unexpected discovery — a pair of gravitationally bound quasars inside two merging galaxies that existed when the universe was just three billion years old.…
Webb finds water, and a new mystery, in rare main-belt comet
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has enabled another long-sought scientific breakthrough, this time for Solar System scientists studying the origins of the water that has made life on Earth possible. This…
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight to fly by Earth
This screenshot from NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System 3D visualization tool shows Lunar Flashlight making its close approach with Earth late on May 16. The CubeSat will pass about…
Researchers determine global thickness and density of Martian crust
Topographic map of the Martian surface (l.) and representation of the crust thickness (r.). Credit: MOLA Science Team / Doyeon Kim, ETH Zurich A strong quake in the last year…
Hubble captures light-bending galaxy cluster eMACS J1823.1+7822
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling A vast galaxy cluster lurks in the center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Like a submerged sea monster causing waves…
