Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX launches lately have been pushing the record envelope for booster reflight, but a Starlink launch Tuesday morning rolled out a brand new first stage. A…
Category: Planetary Science
Specialized materials could passively control the internal temperature of space habitats
Artist’s depiction of a habitat on the moon. Credit: ESA/Foster + Partners Areas of space have wildly different temperatures depending on whether they are directly in sunlight or not. For…
Senegal’s first satellite successfully launched
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Senegal’s first satellite has been successfully launched into orbit, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye said, adding the move marked a major step towards the West African country’s…
Scientists discover phenomenon impacting Earth’s radiation belts
This graphic shows a cutaway model of Earth’s radiation belts with the two Van Allen Probes satellites flying through them. Credit: NASA illustration Two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have…
Hubble rings in a new galactic view
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the galaxy LEDA 857074. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Chilingari The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is situated in the…
New research shows unprecedented atmospheric changes during May’s geomagnetic superstorm
Associate Professor and Crofton Faculty Fellow Scott England. Credit: Ben Murphy for Virginia Tech. On May 11, a gorgeous aurora surprised stargazers across the southern United States. That same weekend,…
Research team releases a 76 m-per-pixel global color image dataset and map of Mars
A true color Mars global image map in Robinson projection is created with Tianwen-1 MoRIC image data, the resolution of the original data is ~76 m per pixel, and the…
NASA telescopes work out black hole’s feeding schedule
Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss By using new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory as well as ESA’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers has made important headway in…
Primary instrument for Roman Space Telescope arrives at NASA Goddard
Technicians inspect NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Wide Field Instrument upon delivery to the big clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn The primary instrument…
Earth hit by ‘severe’ solar storm
Photo of the Sun taken by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager of the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter probe, distributed by the ESA on July 16, 2020. The Earth was hit…
