Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New Glenn, the towering rocket built by Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin, is set to take off on its second mission Sunday as competition intensifies…
Category: Planetary Science
The ‘anti-weather’ of Venus
Surface of Venus, as seen by Venera 13. Credit: Venera 13/Don P.Mitchell Conditions on Venus’s surface have largely remained a mystery for decades. Carl Sagan famously pointed out that people…
Saturn’s icy moon may host a stable ocean fit for life
A new study has constrained the Enceladus’s global conductive heat flow by studying its seasonal temperature variations at its north pole (yellow). These results, when combined with existing ones of…
Rare meteoroid impact triggers dust avalanches and new streaks on slopes on Mars
The image covers an area of approximately six square kilometers and was captured on 24 December 2023. Mars location: 7.1°S, 173.4°E. CaSSIS image MY37_027142_351. Credit: European Space Agency When a…
Northern lights may be visible in parts of the US due to solar storms
An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, lights up the night sky off Lake Michigan and the St. Joseph Lighthouse, Oct. 10, 2024, in St. Joseph, Mich. Credit:…
Astronomers reveal tasty insights into exoplanet formation using SPAM
The NIRC2 image of dust around a young star named HD34282 (left) produced using an algorithm to construct images from aperture masking interferometry data. The light from the star is removed and…
Picture of universe getting clearer—but much remains unknown
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a lot we don’t know, according to Ulf Danielsson, professor of theoretical physics…
Seas of the Sun, the story of Cluster
The first recorded observation of a satellite reentry from a high-speed orbit, taken from a plane in bright daylight. Credit: European Space Agency What began with tragedy ended in triumph.…
India space agency launches its heaviest satellite
The CMS-03 satellite is an upgraded version of the rocket that launched India’s unmanned craft that landed on the Moon in August 2023. India launched its heaviest ever communication satellite on…
How to spot November’s supermoon, the closest of the year
A bird flies in front of the Harvest Supermoon in San Francisco, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu The moon will look slightly bigger and brighter Wednesday night…
