Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, captures the billion-year-old aftermath of a double spiral galaxy collision. At the heart of this chaotic interaction,…
Category: Planetary Science
How NASA Is protecting Europa Clipper from space radiation
Engineers and technicians are seen closing the vault of NASA’s Europa Clipper in the main clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at JPL on Oct. 7. The vault will…
Astronomers carry out largest ever cosmological computer simulation
The background image shows the present-day distribution of matter in a slice through the largest FLAMINGO simulation, which is a cubic volume of 2.8 Gpc (9.1 billion light years) on…
Astronomers spot most distant radio burst yet
How much does the universe weigh? Astronomers hope fast radio bursts, arriving from distant galaxies, could provide an answer. Eight billion years ago, something happened in a distant galaxy that…
India conducts space flight test ahead of planned mission to take astronauts into space in 2025
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman S. Somanath arrives to address the media after the successful landing of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the moon, in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023.…
NASA’s Voyager team focuses on software patch, thrusters
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012. Traveling on a different trajectory, its…
Juno completes its closest flyby of Io yet
Not since the Galileo mission ended 20 years ago have we seen such great images of Io. NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this image with its JunoCam instrument on October 15th…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft preparing for its first asteroid flyby
A size comparison of (152830) Dinkinesh (shown in blue in the artist concept) to the main belt asteroid (2867) Steins and the near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu. Steins is currently the…
New map of space precisely measures nearly 400,000 nearby galaxies
NGC 520 is one of the largest and brightest galaxies in the Siena Galaxy Atlas. It is made of two disk galaxies that will eventually merge together to form one…
SpaceX launch equals Space Coast record for the year
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday night marked the Space Coast’s 57th launch of the year, equaling the record total seen…
