This image made available by NASA shows an artist’s rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. It’s designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its…
Category: Planetary Science
NASA cameras to capture interaction between Blue Ghost lander, moon’s surface
One of the SCALPSS cameras is visible here mounted to the Blue Ghost lander. Credit: Firefly Say cheese again, moon. We’re coming in for another close-up. For the second time…
The moon might be older than scientists previously thought; a new study shines light on its history
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was…
Report analyzes long history of NASA support for commercial space
The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov approaches the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above Ontario, Canada, near James…
Clever trick to cook young stars detected for first time—astronomers highlight magnetic fields as the missing ingredient
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…
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,…
