This screengrab image from NASA’s live broadcast shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon capsule blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida bound for the…
Category: Planetary Science
Musk says Starship to depart for Mars at end of 2026
Starship (pictured during a test flight) — the world’s largest and most powerful rocket — is key to Elon Musk’s long-term vision of colonizing Mars. SpaceX founder Elon Musk said…
Atmospheric wave-studying mission releases data from first 3,000 orbits
This image shows AWE data combined from two of the instrument’s passes over the United States. The red and orange wave-structures show increases in brightness (or radiance) in infrared light…
Weighing in on a Mars water debate: Analysis challenges previous findings
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its atmosphere, however, surface water could…
Researchers develop glass sensors for the Einstein Telescope
Researchers from Jena have manufactured highly sensitive resonators made entirely of glass for the vibration sensors of the Einstein Telescope. Credit: Fraunhofer IOF From 2035, the Einstein Telescope will be…
Remember that asteroid that isn’t going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
Artist’s impression of an asteroid. Credit: ESA-Science Office Last year, astronomers detected the near-earth asteroid (NEA) 2024 YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth’s orbit.…
How humans can reinvent themselves to live on other worlds
Robert Pattinson plays two “expendable” space travelers in “Mickey 17.” Credit: Warner Bros. Entertainment Let’s face it: Space is a hostile environment for humans. Even on Mars, settlers might have…
With stuck Boeing Starliner astronauts waiting, SpaceX Crew-10 arrives to Kennedy Space Center
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The return to Earth of Boeing’s Starliner astronauts stuck on the International Space Station inched closer as their replacements arrived to Florida for their relief flight…
Watch the moon turn red during a total lunar eclipse in March
Light shines from a total lunar eclipse over Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File A total lunar eclipse will…
Here’s a look at moon landing hits and misses
A flock of birds fly in front of the full moon over the city center in Tallinn, Estonia, Oct. 17, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File Landing a spacecraft on…
