Credit: Rachel Barton/Texas A&M Engineering When astronauts make the long journey to Mars in the not-so-distant future, communication with mission control will be impossible for days to weeks at a…
Category: Planetary Science
Discovery of ‘mini halo’ points to how the early universe was formed
This stunning image reveals a distant galaxy cluster teeming with energy: galaxies shine in visible light (white), ghostly red clouds unveil a newly discovered radio mini-halo—the most distant ever detected—and…
The mystery of Mercury’s missing meteorites, and how we may have finally found some
Mercury seen by Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft on the left. On the right, there’s an approximation of Mercury’s true colour as might be seen by the human eye. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins…
Construction on Mars takes a leap forward
Credit: Kaitlyn Johnson/Texas A&M Engineering Inhabiting Mars has long been a futuristic fantasy fueled by science fiction. However, successful landings over the past half-century have made this seemingly far-fetched idea…
Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests and more
ESA’s Biomass is the first satellite to carry a P-band synthetic aperture radar. Thanks to the long wavelength of P-band, around 70 cm, this novel radar is able to penetrate…
NASA spacecraft around the moon photographs the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar lander
This image provided by NASA shows an annotation indicating the impact site for ispace’s Resilience lunar lander, seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera on June 11, 2025. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona…
Macron says Europe must become ‘space power’ again
The European space industry is struggling to remain competitive in the face of Elon Musk’s SpaceX. President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that Europe must again become a global space power,…
Tabletop exercises can help us understand and avoid potential conflicts over the moon
Humans from different nations can struggle to get along. Will we take our Earthly geopolitical struggles to the moon as nations generate a sustained presence there? Credit: RegoLight, visualization: Liquifer…
Radio signal from the very early universe offers clues about the first stars
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the universe’s…
