Multiple images of a background image created by gravitational lensing can be seen in the system HS 0810+2554. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope / NASA / ESA Physicists believe most of…
Category: Planetary Science
SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
SpaceX’s Starship launches from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, April 20, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay SpaceX’s giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off Thursday on it first…
European Space Agency chief eyes tapping private industry partners
Josef Aschbacher, director general of the European Space Agency, speaks in Paris, November 23, 2022. European Space Agency director Josef Aschbacher promised a “transformation” of the continent’s space sector in…
The moon may be the best place to transport rocket fuel
Artist depiction of future lunar astronauts. Credit: NASA When astronauts return to the moon in the next few years, the plan is to have them stay for good while establishing…
What to know about 1st test flight of SpaceX’s big Starship
This undated photo provided by SpaceX shows the company’s Starship rocket at the launch site in Boca Chica, Texas. Credit: SpaceX via AP Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to take…
SpaceX will try to launch most powerful rocket ever Monday
A prototype of Starship, a huge rocket made by SpaceX, sits on a launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas in February 2022. SpaceX plans to carry out its first test flight…
Surface shaking could trigger landslides
Examples of ridge-and-trough terrains from the four studied icy satellites. Arrows point along representative scarps in each example. (a) Boundary between Harpagia Sulcus and Nicholson Regio, Ganymede (Planetary Data System…
Hubble captures ‘jellyfish galaxy’ JO204
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows JO204, a ‘jellyfish galaxy’ so named for the bright tendrils…
NASA’s Lucy mission snaps its first views of Trojan asteroid targets
Credit: NASA Some of the asteroids NASA’s Lucy mission will visit are still more than 330 million miles (530 million kilometers) away from the spacecraft, which is more than three…
European spacecraft on way to Jupiter and its icy moons
In this image provided by the European Space Agency, an Ariane rocket carrying the robotic explorer Juice takes off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, Friday, April 14, 2023. European…
