In this visualization, the LEXI instrument is shown onboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which will deliver 10 Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) payloads to the moon. Credit: Firefly…
Category: Planetary Science
Carbon in our bodies likely left galaxy and came back on cosmic ‘conveyer belt’
An image of a dense, star-rich portion of our galaxy, the Milky Way, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team Life on Earth could not exist without…
Scientists detect mysterious suppression in cosmic structure growth
A section of the three-dimensional map constructed by BOSS. Image credit: Jeremy Tinker and the SDSS-III collaboration. Credit: Jeremy Tinker and the SDSS-III collaboration A new study in published in…
HYPSO-2 satellite monitors harmful algae from space
The HYPSO-3 satellite weighs 7 kg and has solar panels on its wings. Credit: Kongsberg NanoAvionics It’s slightly larger than a 5-liter water bottle, and is whizzing around the Earth…
Dark energy camera captures the glittering galaxies of the Antlia Cluster
The Antlia Cluster (Abell S636) is a group of at least 230 galaxies located about 130 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Antlia (the Air Pump). It…
SpaceX knocks out 1st of final 2 Space Coast launches of 2024
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX knocked out a midnight launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, but has a midnight Monday launch on tap from Kennedy Space Center to cap off…
India rocket launches space docking mission
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain India launched a rocket Monday carrying two small spacecraft to test docking in space, a critical step for the country’s dreams of a space station and…
From dead galaxies to mysterious red dots, here’s what the James Webb Telescope has found in just 3 years
On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space.…
Astronomers discover an ultra-massive grand-design spiral galaxy
The morphology and photometric redshift of Zhúlóng. Credit: Xiao et al., 2024. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe sets new record for sun proximity
An artist’s concept showing Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA/APL Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec.…
