This photo provided by researcher Jane Greaves shows the planet Venus, seen from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Akatsuki probe in May 2016. Credit: J. Greaves/Cardiff University/JAXA via AP A…
Category: Planetary Science
Stormy waves traversing the Earth’s core provide new hints into future planetary exploration
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The detection of energy signals from strong winter storms in the North Atlantic Ocean that travel through Earth’s core could enhance understanding of our solar system,…
AI-powered digital elevation models reveal moon’s lobate scarps near Chang’e-6 landing site
Spatial distribution of lobate scarps at the northwest of the Chang’e-6 landing area shown on the LROC WAC image. Credit: AIR A research team led by Prof. Di Kaichang from…
NASA telescopes tune into a black hole prelude and fugue
The first sonification features WR124, an extremely bright, massive star. Here, the star is shown in a short-lived phase preceding the possible creation of a black hole. Credit: NASA NASA…
Key portion of Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope clears thermal vacuum test
This photo captures the installation of the test solar panels for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which took place in March. One panel is lifted in the center of…
NASA’s IXPE reveals X-ray-generating particles in black hole jets
This artist’s concept depicts the central region of the blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and a jet oriented toward Earth. Credit: NASA/Pablo Garcia…
Alternative black hole models suggest quantum effects may erase need for singularities
Singular black hole and non-singular alternatives. Credit: Sissa Medialab. Background image sourced from ESO/Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (eso.org/public/images/eso1101a/) Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the…
NASA takes possession of Orion for Artemis II moon mission
Credit: Pixabay from Pexels For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, NASA officially has its hands on a spacecraft expected to fly humans to the moon. Lockheed Martin,…
Easy vote turns Musk’s dreams for Starbase city in Texas into reality
Voters overwhelmingly voted in favor of making Starbase into its own independent city in the southern US state of Texas. Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s dream of gaining city status for…
