Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain India’s sun-monitoring spacecraft has crossed a landmark point on its journey to escape “the sphere of Earth’s influence”, its space agency said, days after the disappointment…
Category: Planetary Science
How researchers make sure the LSST Camera is the best it can be
Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Building the world’s largest digital camera ever made for astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time Camera, is no simple…
NASA’s Perseverance captures dust-filled Martian whirlwind
The whirlwind. See video below. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The lower portion of a Martian dust devil was captured moving along the western rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater by NASA’s Perseverance rover…
DECam captures the stunning layers of shell galaxy NGC 3923 and nearby gravitational lensing
The symmetrical, onion-like layers of shell galaxy NGC 3923 are showcased in this galaxy-rich image taken by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Dark Energy Camera mounted on the National…
Blue Origin to remain grounded for now following crash probe
The report into the September 12, 2022 “mishap” said that failure of an engine nozzle caused by higher than expected engine operating temperatures caused the New Shepard rocket to fall…
Three astronauts return to Earth after a year in space. NASA’s Frank Rubio sets US space record
In this photo taken from video released by Roscosmos space corporation, a Russian Soyuz MS-23 space capsule descends about 150 km (90 miles) south-east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan,…
Listening to the radio on the far side of the moon
This artist’s rendering shows LuSEE-Night atop the Blue Ghost spacecraft scheduled to deliver the experiment to the far side of the moon. Credit: Firefly Aerospace There are unexplored regions of…
Historic wind tunnel facility testing NASA’s Mars ascent vehicle rocket
A scale model of the Mars Ascent Vehicle is loaded by Wind Tunnel Test Engineer Sam Schmitz into the trisonic wind tunnel at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center for testing.…
NASA’s first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft
This image taken from video provided by NASA TV shows the capsule released by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft lying on the surface near the parachute after landing to Earth, Sunday Sept.…
Largest asteroid sample ever collected is coming down to Earth
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Chunks of asteroid that could tell us about the earliest days of the 4.5 billion-year-old solar system and the possible origins of water on our planet…
