Category: Planetary Science
‘Crazy idea’ about cooling effects of Pluto’s haze confirmed by new Webb data
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of Pluto’s surface shrouded in atmospheric haze. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI The first observations of Pluto by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic…
Northern lights could be visible again in some US states after weekend solar storms
An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is seen in the night sky over the Tallinn bay of the Baltic sea in Tallinn, Estonia, April 2, 2025. Credit:…
Trump says withdrawing Musk ally as nominee to head NASA
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was withdrawing his nomination of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, a close ally of Elon Musk, to lead space agency…
Elon Musk promises more risky launches after sixth Starship failure
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain What goes up must come down, and earlier this week yet another of SpaceX’s Starships, the biggest and most powerful type of rocket ever built, came…
Satellite megaconstellations threaten radio astronomy observations, expert warns
Satellite mega constellations could place “radio quiet” in jeopardy. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF For years, the commercial space sector has been abuzz about the prospect of satellite “super constellations” in Earth orbit.…
Simulation tracks complete journey of gravitational wave through black hole spacetime
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a new Physical Review Letters study, researchers have successfully followed a gravitational wave’s complete journey from the infinite past to the infinite future as it…
China’s Tianwen-2 is off to collect an asteroid sample
Credit: Universe Today Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system’s birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these celestial wanderers inhabit the asteroid belt between…
China launches space probe seeking asteroid samples
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country’s first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them home for research, the Xinhua…
What is Manhattanhenge and when can you see it?
The sun sets as seen between buildings along 42nd Street in New York, May 30, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, file Twice a year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated…
