This picture courtesy of Fram2/SpaceX shows from left to right, mission specialist and medical officer Eric Philips, mission commander Chun Wang, pilot Rabea Rogge and vehicle commander Jannicke Mikkelsen. SpaceX…
Category: Planetary Science
Rocket carrying European orbital vehicle crashes after launch
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The first orbital rocket launched from continental Europe crashed seconds after blast-off Sunday, dealing a blow to the continent’s bid to build a new space economy.…
When glaciers roamed Mars
Perspective view of Kalkaska crater and the Heart Lake system from CTX-MOLA DTM mosaic over global CTX mosaic. Credit: Berman & Williams (2025) The surface of Mars is known for…
How NASA’s Perseverance is helping prepare astronauts for Mars
This graphic shows an illustration of a prototype astronaut suit, left, along with suit samples included aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover. They are the first spacesuit materials ever sent to Mars.…
NEO surveyor instrument enclosure tested inside historic chamber for Apollo spacecraft testing
Credit: NASA The instrument enclosure of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor was prepared for critical environmental tests inside the historic Chamber A at the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson…
Webb telescope sees galaxy in mysteriously clearing fog of early universe
JADES-GS-z13-1 in the GOODS-S field.Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, STScI, CSA, JADES Collaboration Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early universe. The surprise finding is…
Protoplanetary disks are much smaller than previously thought, new study finds
Images of 73 protoplanetary discs in the Lupus star forming region (two of the images contain binary stars). Only a fraction of the discs extend beyond the orbit of Neptune,…
SpaceX rocket fuel makes stunning swirl in European sky
Credit: UK’s Met Office A stunning blue and white spiral spotted in skies across Europe was created by frozen fuel tumbling from a SpaceX rocket, according to weather forecasters and…
What rules actually prohibit us from building a warp drive?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In 1994, Miguel Alcubierre was able to construct a valid solution to the equations of general relativity that enable a warp drive. But now we need…
Bridging the gap between the cosmic microwave background and the first galaxies
A new image of cosmic microwave background radiation (half-sky image at left, closeup at right) adds high definition from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope to an earlier image from the Planck…
