This photo provided by NASA shows Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft which launched astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station docked to the Harmony module’s forward port on…
Category: Planetary Science
Ancient duo of stars visiting from far reaches of the Milky Way discovered
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An unusual pair of 10-billion-year-old stars, formed when the Milky Way was young, are visiting from the farthest reaches of the galaxy, researchers have discovered. The…
New data on radiation show missions to Jupiter’s moon Europa are possible
This artist concept depicts the Juno spacecraft which arrived at Jupiter in 2016 after a five-year journey to study the giant planet. Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL Scientists from…
SpaceX rolls out new booster for Cape Canaveral launch
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…
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…
