Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The four members of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission climbed on board the Crew Dragon Endeavour on Wednesday to prepare for their return trip to Earth from…
Category: Planetary Science
China’s ‘Thousand Sails’ joins Starlink as the latest mega-satellite constellation in orbit
The first batch of Thousand Sails satellites head to orbit. Credit: CNSA With “Thousand Sails,” China joins the race to fill up Low Earth Orbit with mega-satellite constellations. It’s getting…
NOAA releases imagery from world’s first operational space-based coronagraph
Credit: NOAA Headquarters NOAA today shared the first images from the Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1), a powerful solar telescope onboard the new GOES-19 satellite. CCOR-1, the world’s first operational, space-based coronagraph,…
Betelgeuse Betelgeuse? Bright star Betelgeuse likely has a ‘Betelbuddy’ stellar companion
Graphical depiction of Betelgeuse and the Betelbuddy. Credit: Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation One of the brightest stars in the night sky, Betelgeuse, may not be on the brink of exploding as…
New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from a single source
The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. It’s a reminder that Earth is part of a much larger and…
Physicists show that neutron stars may be shrouded in clouds of axions
An axion cloud around a neutron star. While some axions escape the star’s gravitational pull, many remain bound to the star and over a long period of time form a…
Hubble captures a new view of galaxy M90
This eye-catching image offers us a new view of the spiral galaxy Messier 90 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, J This NASA/ESA Hubble…
First results from the Axion Dark-Matter Birefringent Cavity experiment establish a new technique for axion search
Experimental setup at MIT, picture by Swadha Pandey. Our four-mirror detector is housed inside two steel vacuum chambers connected by a pipe. The platform in front of the near vacuum…
Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer helps researchers determine shape of black hole corona
This illustration of material swirling around a black hole highlights a particular feature, called the “corona,” that shines brightly in X-ray light. In this depiction, the corona can be seen…
Space Force’s X-37B will perform ‘never before-seen maneuvers’ in orbit
The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle taxiing on the flightline on March 30th, 2010, at the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Florida. Credit: USAF The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) has been…
