This photo provided by Firefly Aerospace shows Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander captures the Blue Marble while in Earth orbit on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. Credit: Firefly Aerospace via AP…
Category: Planetary Science
Space researchers build traffic light system to warn of dangerous solar storms
Credit: PAGER Researchers have created an improved traffic light system for predicting geomagnetic storms. They are now testing how well these algorithms can prepare us for incoming space storms that…
NASA JPL prepping for full year of launches, mission milestones
NASA JPL is readying for, clockwise from lower right, the launches of CADRE (its engineering models are seen here), Lunar Trailblazer, NISAR (seen in an artist’s concept), Sentinel-6B (artist’s concept),…
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…