This image shows AWE data combined from two of the instrument’s passes over the United States. The red and orange wave-structures show increases in brightness (or radiance) in infrared light…
Category: Planetary Science
Weighing in on a Mars water debate: Analysis challenges previous findings
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its atmosphere, however, surface water could…
Researchers develop glass sensors for the Einstein Telescope
Researchers from Jena have manufactured highly sensitive resonators made entirely of glass for the vibration sensors of the Einstein Telescope. Credit: Fraunhofer IOF From 2035, the Einstein Telescope will be…
Remember that asteroid that isn’t going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
Artist’s impression of an asteroid. Credit: ESA-Science Office Last year, astronomers detected the near-earth asteroid (NEA) 2024 YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth’s orbit.…
How humans can reinvent themselves to live on other worlds
Robert Pattinson plays two “expendable” space travelers in “Mickey 17.” Credit: Warner Bros. Entertainment Let’s face it: Space is a hostile environment for humans. Even on Mars, settlers might have…
With stuck Boeing Starliner astronauts waiting, SpaceX Crew-10 arrives to Kennedy Space Center
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The return to Earth of Boeing’s Starliner astronauts stuck on the International Space Station inched closer as their replacements arrived to Florida for their relief flight…
Watch the moon turn red during a total lunar eclipse in March
Light shines from a total lunar eclipse over Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File A total lunar eclipse will…
Here’s a look at moon landing hits and misses
A flock of birds fly in front of the full moon over the city center in Tallinn, Estonia, Oct. 17, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File Landing a spacecraft on…
Webb wows with incredible detail in actively forming star system
Actively forming star system Lynds 483 (NIRCam image). Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI High-resolution near-infrared light captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows extraordinary new detail and structure…
Runaway stars reveal hidden black hole in Milky Way’s nearest neighbor
Artist’s impression of a hypervelocity star ejected from the Large Magellanic Cloud (shown on right). When a binary star system ventures too close to a supermassive black hole, the intense…
