“Cheyava Falls” (left) shows the dark hole where NASA’s Perseverance took a core sample; the white patch is where the rover abraded the rock to investigate its composition. A rock…
Category: Space
At new observatory, Yale expertise helps probe the ‘infant universe’
Whether she’s shuttling between meetings at Yale’s Wright Lab or conferring with colleagues around the world, Laura Newburgh’s thoughts of late rarely stray far from the Simons Observatory in northern Chile. Simons Observatory. Image credit: Simons…
Roadmap details how to improve exoplanet exploration using the James Webb Space Telescope
A new step-by-step roadmap describes how to improve the efficiency of data gathering with the JWST to benefit the astronomy community at large. “Our hope now is that a large-scale…
NASA’s massive moon booster arrives at Kennedy Space Center
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It’s still covered up in what looks like the world’s largest PEZ dispenser, but the core stage booster for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket for the…
NASA rocket discovers new energization process in upper atmosphere
A timelapse of the Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics (TRICE-2) mission launching from Andøya Space Center in Andenes, Norway on Dec. 8, 2018. Credit: NASA/Jamie Adkins When it comes…
ABL Space System’s 2nd RS1 rocket destroyed during preflight testing
ABL Space Systems will have to wait a while to conduct its second-ever orbital launch. The California-based startup has been prepping its RS1 rocket for a test flight, which will…
Researchers find ‘Ice World’ exoplanet in the Habitable Zone of a nearby star
A McMaster researcher is part of an international team that has found evidence of a potentially habitable icy exoplanet beyond our solar system. LHS 1140 b may be a world…
Researchers send 3D printer into space
Imagine a crew of astronauts headed to Mars. About 140 million miles away from Earth, they discover their spacecraft has a cracked O-ring. But instead of relying on a dwindling…
A new explanation for Jupiter’s great, shrinking ‘Spot’
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot — the biggest windstorm in the solar system — is shrinking, and a new study may help explain why. Hubble image of Jupiter. Image Credit: NASA,…
