A topographic model of the moon using a color-scale from purple (low) to red (high) based on data collected by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Kaguya by the Japanese Space…
Category: Planetary Science
Citizen scientist data help uncover the mysteries of a blue low-latitude aurora
One of the two photographs that captured blue-dominant aurora and were analyzed in this study. Credit: Takuya Usami Colorful auroras appeared around Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands on May 11,…
Dynamic tracking technique can reduce noise in gravitational-wave detectors to peer deeper into the cosmos
The proof-of-concept experiment demonstrates the potential of dynamic tracking in larger-scale systems, such as gravitational-wave observatories. Credit: Olivia Crowell, Louisiana State University Researchers have shown that optical spring tracking is…
Five space mysteries Proba-3 will help solve
+Proba-3 will provide new views of the Sun and space weather. Credit: European Space Agency ESA’s Proba-3 will be the first mission to create an artificial total solar eclipse by…
New map of the universe uses gravitational waves to reveal hidden black holes and cosmic structure
Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav, Swinburne University of Technology and South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) An international study led by astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology has created the most…
Trump may cancel NASA’s powerful SLS Moon rocket—what that would mean for Elon Musk and the future of space travel
Credit: NASA/MSFC Since Donald Trump’s recent electoral victory, rumors and speculation have circulated that Nasa’s giant moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), could be under threat. The rocket is…
New approach uses observed local supervoid to give expansion of the universe an extra push and solve the Hubble tension
If we are located in a region with below-average density such as the green dot, then matter would flow away from us due to stronger gravity from the surrounding denser…
Cosmological model proposes dark matter production during pre-Big Bang inflation
As physicists continue their struggle to find and explain the origin of dark matter, the approximately 80% of the matter in the universe that we can’t see and so far…
New Artemis mobile launcher takes shape amid uncertain future
Credit: Edvin Richardson from Pexels Months after an alarmist review from NASA’s Office of the Inspector General, hundreds of construction workers seem out to prove their critics wrong as progress…
