Astronomers estimate 50,000 sources of near-infrared light are represented in this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Their light has traveled through various distances to reach the telescope’s…
Category: Planetary Science
China names its capsule and lander for its upcoming human lunar missions
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a recent announcement, the Chinese Space Agency (CSA) unveiled the names for its forthcoming lunar mission components. The CSA have been working toward sending humans…
ERS-2 buckles and bends during final farewell
Credit: Fraunhofer FHR Following a hugely successful mission and almost 30 years in orbit, ESA’s ERS-2 reentered Earth’s atmosphere at approximately 18:17 CET (17:17 UTC) on 21 February 2024. Predicting…
Private US spacecraft is on its side on the moon with some antennas covered up, the company says
On Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 the Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lunar lander captures a wide field of view image of Schomberger crater on the Moon approximately 125 miles (200 km) uprange…
How we could snoop on extraterrestrial communications networks
A 3-pulsar navigation system for an ET civilization. Credit: Ross Davis (2022) The conditions for life throughout the universe are so plentiful that it seems reasonable to presume there must…
Einstein telescope E-TEST prototype passes its first series of tests
Temperature of the prototype components during the first E-TEST campaign at CSL experiment (solid lines) and simulated curves from theoretical model (dotted lines). Credit: ULiège / CSL The Einstein telescope…
Capturing a comet’s tail to keep Earth safe from the sun
‘Comet C2021 S3’ depicts the comet being observed in January 2024 by a different research team. Credit: Damian Peach A comet is set to pass by Earth this spring, and…
