Category: Planetary Science
NASA Kennedy ground systems prepping hardware for Artemis II and beyond
Teams at Bechtel National, Inc. use a crane to lift Module 4 into place atop the mobile launcher 2 tower chair at its park site on Jan. 3, 2025, at…
Watch doorbell camera capture rare meteorite strike in Canada
The photo provided by the University of Alberta Meteorite Collection shows fragments collected from a meteorite which fell in front of a resident’s home in Marshfield, P.E.I., Canada, in July…
US grounds SpaceX’s Starship after fiery mid-air explosion
In this handout image courtesy of Greg Blee, debris from the SpaceX Starship is seen in the sky near Providenciales, Turks and Caicos on January 16, 2025. The United States…
A seed-sized signal amplifier chip could boost space communications
Credit: ESA-SJM Photography Smaller than a strawberry seed, this tiny signal amplifier was produced by the European Space Agency to fill a missing link in current technology, helping to make…
An even ghostlier neutrino may rule the universe
One of the Daya Bay detectors. Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Strange “right-handed” neutrinos may be responsible for all the matter in the universe, according to new research.…
The first supernovae flooded the early universe with water, research suggests
This artist’s impression shows CR7 a very distant galaxy discovered using ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Water is the essence of life. Every living thing on Earth contains…
Image: Earth in far-ultraviolet
Credit: NASA On April 21, 1972, NASA astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 mission, took a far-ultraviolet photo of Earth with an ultraviolet camera. Young’s original black-and-white…
Blue Origin scrubs key test launch again, eyes Thursday
Jeff Bezos walks near Blue Origin’s New Shepard after flying into space on July 20, 2021 in Van Horn, Texas. Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos,…
