Credit: Pixabay from Pexels A Japanese firm said Monday it had successfully launched a spacecraft tasked with inspecting potentially dangerous man-made junk floating around the Earth. The European Space Agency…
Category: Space
Earth to be Exhibit A for Lunar Exoplanet Research
When Jake Turner was a kid in rural Colorado, he had pictures of all the Apollo lunar missions thumbtacked to his bedroom walls, along with Neil Armstrong’s words, “One small…
Hubble views a massive star forming
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is a relatively close star-forming region known as IRAS 16562-3959. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Fedriani, J. Tan This image from the…
Newborn gas planets may be surprisingly flat, says new research
An artist’s concept of a “Hot Jupiter” extrasolar planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A new planet starts its life in a rotating circle of gas and dust, a cradle known as a…
NASA’s final tally shows spacecraft returned double the amount of asteroid rubble
This photo provided by NASA on Jan. 22, 2024 shows a view of eight sample trays containing the final material from asteroid Bennu. NASA reported Thursday, Feb. 15, that the…
NASA Telescopes Find New Clues About Mysterious Deep Space Signals
Using two of the agency’s X-ray telescopes, researchers zoomed in on a dead star’s erratic behavior as it released a bright, brief burst of radio waves. In an ejection that…
Sun’s surprising activity surge in Solar Orbiter snapshot
See how the Sun changed between February 2021 and October 2023. As the Sun approaches the maximum in its magnetic activity cycle, we see more brilliant explosions, dark sunspots, loops of…
Ready, set, go! Euclid begins its dark Universe survey
The problem was that a tiny amount of unwanted sunlight reached Euclid’s visible instrument (VIS) at specific angles, even with the spacecraft’s sunshield (its back) turned towards the Sun. Artist…
XMM-Newton Spots a Black Hole Throwing a Tantrum
Black holes are like temperamental toddlers. They spill food all the time, but ESA’s XMM-Newton has caught a black hole in the act of ‘flipping over the table’ during an…
Spot the king of planets: Observe Jupiter
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is close to the size of Earth. Credit: NASA Jupiter is our solar system’s undisputed king of the planets. Jupiter is bright and easy to spot…
