Astronomers have found evidence of magnetic fields associated with a disc of gas and dust a few hundred light-years across deep inside a system of two merging galaxies known as…
Category: Planetary Science
Distant blazar discovery supports rapid black hole formation in the early universe
Artist’s impression of the bright, very early active galactic nucleus that was found by Bañados and his colleagues, which has fundamental implications for black hole growth in the earliest billion…
SpaceX completes 3 rocket launches, 1 Dragon landing in 22 hours
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a span of less than 22 hours, SpaceX managed three Falcon 9 rocket launches and one landing of a Dragon spacecraft. It flew a Department…
Jovian vortex hunters contribute to storm study
A set of vortices—spinning storms—found by Jovian Vortex Hunters. Data from the JunoCam instrument on NASA’s Juno mission. Credit: NASA Jumping Jupiter! The results are in, storm chasers! Thanks to…
DAVINCI mission’s many ‘firsts’ aim to unlock Venus’s hidden secrets
An artist’s visualization of DAVINCI’s descent probe lying on the surface of Venus. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio NASA’s DAVINCI—Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging—mission embodies…
Japan’s Space One delays Kairos rocket launch again
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A startup aiming to become Japan’s first private firm to put a satellite into orbit postponed a rocket launch for the second day running on Sunday,…
Elon Musk wants to turn SpaceX’s Starbase site into a Texas city
SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship prepares for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay, File SpaceX is launching a new mission:…
ALMA observes dusty site of planet formation
Composite images of PDS 70 in pseudo color. The left panel shows previous ALMA observations at 0.87 mm, and the right panel shows new ALMA observations at 3 mm. The…
NASA honors Algerian parks with Martian namesakes
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain NASA’s mapping of Mars now bears the names of three iconic Algerian national parks, Algerian physicist Noureddine Melikechi, a member of the US space agency’s largest…
