ESA’s European Remote Sensing 2 satellite (ERS-2) was recently spotted tumbling as it descends through the atmosphere. These images were captured by cameras on board other satellites by Australian company HEO on…
Category: Space
NASA Experiment Sheds Light on Highly Charged Moon Dust
Researchers are studying data from a recent suborbital flight test to understand lunar regolith, or Moon dust better, and its potentially damaging effects as NASA prepares to send astronauts back…
Private US spacecraft is on its side on the moon with some antennas covered up, the company says
On Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 the Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lunar lander captures a wide field of view image of Schomberger crater on the Moon approximately 125 miles (200 km) uprange…
Cornell Astronomers on Newly Approved UVEX NASA Mission
NASA has approved a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky, which will enable scientists to probe ever more deeply into how galaxies and stars evolve. A…
How we could snoop on extraterrestrial communications networks
A 3-pulsar navigation system for an ET civilization. Credit: Ross Davis (2022) The conditions for life throughout the universe are so plentiful that it seems reasonable to presume there must…
‘Beyond what’s possible’: new JWST observations unearth mysterious ancient galaxies
Our understanding of how galaxies form and the nature of dark matter could be completely upended after new observations of a stellar population bigger than the Milky Way from more…
Einstein telescope E-TEST prototype passes its first series of tests
Temperature of the prototype components during the first E-TEST campaign at CSL experiment (solid lines) and simulated curves from theoretical model (dotted lines). Credit: ULiège / CSL The Einstein telescope…
Bright Galaxies Put Dark Matter to the Test
For the past year and a half, the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered astonishing images of distant galaxies formed not long after the Big Bang, giving scientists their first…
