Category: Planetary Science
3 astronauts return to Earth after 6 months on China’s space station
Chinese astronauts Wang Haoze, from left, Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong wave as they attend the see-off ceremony for the Shenzhou-19 mission at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern…
Astronomers discover explosive outflow in star-forming complex using ALMA data
The 1.3 mm continuum map of G34 is depicted in the colorscale. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.15748 The study found that half of the identified streamers are receding, reaching radial…
P160C fires up successfully, a new chapter for Ariane 6 and Vega launchers
Credit: European Space Agency The P160C qualification motor was successfully tested on 24 April at the European Spaceport in French Guiana, on the solid-propellant booster test stand (BEAP) operated by…
Multi-spacecraft radio observations trace the heliospheric magnetic field
Overview of a type III burst observed by four spacecraft. (a) Dynamic spectra. (b) Time profiles at four frequencies with intensity scaled to 1 au. (c) Intensity peaks from panel…
A dark nebula harboring a nest of newly formed stars
A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image taken with the Department of Energy-fabricated 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam)—one of the most powerful digital…
Webb helps scientists better understand solar system’s origins
Credit: CC0 Public Domain University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant icy objects in space beyond Neptune, offering a deeper…
NASA’s EZIE mission captures ‘first light’
This artist’s concept shows the three CubeSats of NASA’s EZIE mission flying in formation to study electrical currents in Earth’s atmosphere associated with auroras. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL NASA’s EZIE…
The sun’s natural gravitational lensing is more powerful than you thought
A collection of gravitational lensing taken with the Euclid telescope. Credit: ESA Let’s turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don’t have to do any work—we just have…
