Category: Planetary Science
Antarctic volcano may hold clues to life on Mars
The volcano has been active for thousands of years, erupting most recently in 1967, 1969 and 1970, devastating British and Chilean bases and forcing the evacuation of an Argentine base.…
Asteroid making its closest approach to Earth this week
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain On 4 February, asteroid 2011 MD will make its closest approach to the Earth. Though it will not be visible with the naked eye, the asteroid…
Ariane 6 test model cryogenic system disconnection
Credit: European Space Agency Teams from ESA, France’s space agency CNES and ArianeGroup successfully completed the disconnection and retraction of the Ariane 6 cryogenic systems on 30 January 2024. These…
Dream Chaser spaceplane passes vibration test
The first vessel of a planned line, Tenacity, was completed at the company’s factory in Louisville, Colorado in November and then shipped to NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky,…
First eROSITA sky-survey data release makes public the largest ever catalog of high-energy cosmic sources
This image shows half of the X-ray sky projected onto a circle (so-called Zenit Equal Area projection) with the center of the Milky Way on the left and the galactic…
Earth’s atmospheric glow can be seen from the International Space Station
Credit: NASA, ESA/Andreas Mogensen This high exposure photograph revealed Earth’s atmospheric glow against the backdrop of a starry sky in this image taken from the International Space Station on Jan.…
Space Shuttle Endeavour hoisted for installation in vertical display at Los Angeles science museum
Space Shuttle Endeavour is lifted into the site of the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, in Los Angeles. Credit: AP Photo/Ashley Landis NASA’s…
Hubble captures interacting galaxies NGC 5410 and UGC 8932
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a pair of interacting galaxies called, NGC 5410 and UGC 8932/PGC 49896. Credit: NASA/ESA/D. Bowen (Princeton University)/Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of…
Strange new type of star discovered in Milky Way
Astronomers have nicknamed the stars “old smokers” Nearing the end of their life, they sit quietly for long periods of time, barely noticeable, before suddenly puffing out a cloud of…
