Credit: European Space Agency The upcoming Copernicus Radar Observation System for Europe in L-band (ROSE-L) will provide continuous day-and-night all-weather monitoring of Earth’s land, oceans and ice, and offer frequent…
Category: Planetary Science
NASA unveils design for message heading to Jupiter’s moon Europa
The art on this side of the plate, which will seal an opening of the vault on NASA’s Europa Clipper, features waveforms that are visual representations of the sound waves…
Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck
The area near the seismic station in Manus Island, based on satellite images acquired on March 24, 2023. Credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa and Benjamin Fernando/Johns Hopkins University, with imagery from…
Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to uncover clues about Neptune’s evolution
An artist’s conception of Mors-Somnus, a binary duo comprised of a pair of icy asteroids bound by gravity, is shown. UCF researchers recently used the James Webb Space Telescope (also…
Moon lander Odysseus has a new home and brings an artistic project along for the ride
Collage of The Earthling Project and Odysseus’s lunar landing. Credit: Intuitive Machines The moon lander Odysseus, known as Odie, touched down on the moon’s surface on February 22, becoming the…
Astronomers discover new Saturn-sized exoplanet
Light curves of TOI-1135 for the eight sectors of TESS. Credit: Díaz et al., 2024. An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a solar-type…
Study determines the original orientations of rocks drilled on Mars
MIT geologists determined the original orientation of many of the bedrock samples collected on Mars by the Perseverance rover, depicted in this image rendering. The findings can give scientists clues…
What ended the ‘dark ages’ in the early universe? New Webb data just brought us closer to solving the mystery
Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ivo Labbe (Swinburne) / Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh) / Alyssa Pagan (STScI) About 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the cosmos was…
Mars had its own version of plate tectonics
Topographic data are draped over infrared image data showing complex tectonic structures and volcanic deposits in the Eridania region of Mars. Warm colors are higher elevation. Credit: NASA/Mars Odyssey/HRSC Plate…
Night-shining cloud mission ends; yields high science results for NASA
NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission, seen in this visualization, contributed to NASA’s understanding of the region that borders between Earth’s atmosphere and space. Credit: NASA After…
