Credit: Pixabay from Pexels As space travel gains traction and astronauts spend increasing amounts of time in space, studying its effects on health has become increasingly critical. Is space travel…
Category: Planetary Science
A recent fast radio burst calls into question what astronomers believed they knew
The location of the fast radio burst, indicated by the oval outlines, is on the outskirts of a massive elliptical galaxy, the yellow oval at right. Credit: Gemini Observatory Astronomer…
A private US spacecraft headed to the moon captures a glorious view of Earth
This photo provided by Firefly Aerospace shows Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander captures the Blue Marble while in Earth orbit on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. Credit: Firefly Aerospace via AP…
Space researchers build traffic light system to warn of dangerous solar storms
Credit: PAGER Researchers have created an improved traffic light system for predicting geomagnetic storms. They are now testing how well these algorithms can prepare us for incoming space storms that…
NASA JPL prepping for full year of launches, mission milestones
NASA JPL is readying for, clockwise from lower right, the launches of CADRE (its engineering models are seen here), Lunar Trailblazer, NISAR (seen in an artist’s concept), Sentinel-6B (artist’s concept),…
NASA Kennedy ground systems prepping hardware for Artemis II and beyond
Teams at Bechtel National, Inc. use a crane to lift Module 4 into place atop the mobile launcher 2 tower chair at its park site on Jan. 3, 2025, at…
