Artist’s impression of an ultramassive black hole (UBH). Credit: ESA/Hubble/DSS/Nick Risinger/N. Bartmann While physics tells us that information can neither be created nor destroyed (if information could be created or…
Category: Planetary Science
US regulator greenlights Starship’s next launch on Friday
Starship, which stands 394 feet (120 meters) tall, produces 16.7 million pounds (74.3 Meganewtons) of thrust, more than double that of the Saturn V rockets used to send Apollo astronauts…
‘Bouncing’ comets could deliver building blocks for life to exoplanets
A composite image of the Western hemisphere of the Earth. Credit: NASA How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that they…
Scientists uncover aurora-like radio emission above a sunspot
Scientists uncover prolonged radio emissions above a sunspot, akin to those previously seen in the polar regions of planets and certain stars, which may reshape our understanding of intense stellar…
Scientists find 14 new transient objects in space by peering through the ‘Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster’
A color composite image of MACS0416 using the data from four sets of images taken by JWST of the galaxy cluster over a period of 126 days, or about four…
SpaceX hopes for second Starship flight test next week
The SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023. SpaceX is hoping to re-launch Starship, the most…
First release of images demonstrates Euclid space telescope’s potential
Euclid’s strength lies in its diversity: this small section of Euclid’s large image plane shows a detail of the Perseus galaxy cluster. Clearly recognizable are both the various types and…
NASA’s Mars fleet will still conduct science while lying low
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured this view of the location where it will be parked for several weeks during Mars solar conjunction, a period when engineers stop sending commands to spacecraft…
Construction on NASA mission to map 450 million galaxies is under way
Sara Susca, deputy payload manager and payload systems engineer for NASA’s SPHEREx mission, looks up at one of the spacecraft’s photon shields. These concentric cones protect the telescope from light…
Astronomers are hoping to detect gravitational waves coming from supernova 1987A
Hubble Space Telescope image of SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA A supernova explosion is a cataclysmic explosion that marks the violent end of a massive star’s life.…
