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…
Category: Planetary Science
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,…
Astronomers observe X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole that accelerate mysteriously
In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927’s supermassive black hole. Credit: Aurore Simonnet/Sonoma State University One…
Blue Origin set for first launch of giant New Glenn rocket
This handout photo courtesy of Blue Origin shows the New Glenn rocket on the launch pad at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida.…
Five things to know about New Glenn, Blue Origin’s new rocket
The New Glenn rocket sits on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, in December 2024. Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff…
‘What is that?’ Scientists explain white patch that appears near northern lights
Images of the aurora borealis showing the structured continuum emission. Credit: University of Calgary, Faculty of Science research team A whitish, gray patch that sometimes appears in the night sky…
