This artist’s impression shows CR7 a very distant galaxy discovered using ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Water is the essence of life. Every living thing on Earth contains…
Category: Planetary Science
Image: Earth in far-ultraviolet
Credit: NASA On April 21, 1972, NASA astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 mission, took a far-ultraviolet photo of Earth with an ultraviolet camera. Young’s original black-and-white…
Blue Origin scrubs key test launch again, eyes Thursday
Jeff Bezos walks near Blue Origin’s New Shepard after flying into space on July 20, 2021 in Van Horn, Texas. Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos,…
Astronomers observe X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole that accelerate mysteriously
In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927’s supermassive black hole. Credit: Aurore Simonnet/Sonoma State University One…
Blue Origin set for first launch of giant New Glenn rocket
This handout photo courtesy of Blue Origin shows the New Glenn rocket on the launch pad at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida.…
Five things to know about New Glenn, Blue Origin’s new rocket
The New Glenn rocket sits on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, in December 2024. Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff…
‘What is that?’ Scientists explain white patch that appears near northern lights
Images of the aurora borealis showing the structured continuum emission. Credit: University of Calgary, Faculty of Science research team A whitish, gray patch that sometimes appears in the night sky…
Space Launch System could launch a Titan balloon mission
Artist’s depiction of a balloon on Titan. Credit: Donahue et al. Few places in the solar system are better suited to a balloon than Titan. The combination of low gravity…
US astronauts upbeat seven months into eight-day mission
Les astronautes Butch Wilmore (tout à gauche) et Suni Williams (à droite), accompagnés des astronautes Nick Hague et Don Pettit, dans la Station spatiale internationale (ISS), le 8 janvier 2025.…
