Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected evidence of quartz nanocrystals in the high-altitude clouds of WASP-17 b, a hot Jupiter exoplanet 1,300 light-years from Earth. Artist’s rendering…
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Pulsars May Make Dark Matter Glow
The central question in the ongoing hunt for dark matter is: what is it made of? One possible answer is that dark matter consists of particles known as axions. A…
India conducts space flight test ahead of planned mission to take astronauts into space in 2025
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman S. Somanath arrives to address the media after the successful landing of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the moon, in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023.…
NASA’s Voyager team focuses on software patch, thrusters
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012. Traveling on a different trajectory, its…
Juno completes its closest flyby of Io yet
Not since the Galileo mission ended 20 years ago have we seen such great images of Io. NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this image with its JunoCam instrument on October 15th…
Intense Jet Stream in Jupiter’s Atmosphere Discovered by Webb
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a fast-moving jet stream in Jupiter’s atmosphere blowing twice as fast as the visible cloud layers below it, creating wind shears that far…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft preparing for its first asteroid flyby
A size comparison of (152830) Dinkinesh (shown in blue in the artist concept) to the main belt asteroid (2867) Steins and the near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu. Steins is currently the…
Clouds of Tiny Quartz Crystals Fill Skies of Searing-hot Exoplanet
This artist’s concept shows what the exoplanet WASP-17 b could look like. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Quartz, also known as silica, exists everywhere: in beach sands,…
New map of space precisely measures nearly 400,000 nearby galaxies
NGC 520 is one of the largest and brightest galaxies in the Siena Galaxy Atlas. It is made of two disk galaxies that will eventually merge together to form one…
Sensitive Instruments to Explore Metal-Rich Asteroid
NASA’s space mission to the asteroid Psyche—located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter—will help us better understand our own Earth. DTU supplies instruments that can measure and map…
