Credit: JAXA A Japanese rocket engine exploded during a test on Friday, an official said, in the latest blow to the country’s space agency. The Epsilon S—an improved version of…
Category: Planetary Science
Webb Space Telescope reveals moment of stellar birth, dramatic close-up of 50 baby stars
The first anniversary image released Wednesday, July 12, 2023, by Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach, shows NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displaying a star birth like it’s…
Scientists use NASA MESSENGER mission data to measure chromium on Mercury
Color-coded chromium abundance map overlain on MESSENGER image of Mercury. Credit: Larry Nittler/ASU The origin of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, is mysterious in many ways. It has…
A new technique uses remote images to gauge the strength of ancient and active rivers beyond Earth
Images from the Cassini mission show river networks draining into lakes in Titan’s north polar region. Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS Rivers have flowed on two other worlds in the solar system besides…
Solar storm on Thursday expected to make Northern Lights visible in 17 states
An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is seen in the night sky in the early morning hours of Monday, April 24, 2023, near Washtucna, Wash. A solar…
Asteroid named after Portuguese astrophysicist
Image of asteroid 243 Ida, taken by the Galileo spacecraft. Despite being about ten times larger than asteroid 32599 Pedromachado, 243 Ida is also found in the Asteroid Belt. Credit:…
Webb detects most distant active supermassive black hole to date
The graphic shows the redshift of one active supermassive black hole. At top right is the complete NIRCam image of the field, which has an uneven white outline and is…
Light supergiant reveals a missing evolutionary stage
Artist’s impression of the discovered massive binary system consisting of a stripped star in the background and a Be star in the foreground. Although the stripped star appears bigger, it…
Quasar disks could host black hole collision events
The key stages of the binary formation mechanism highlighted in the cartoon as snapshots from their moment in the simulations. The first panel shows the “mini”-discs around the isolated black…
First ultraviolet data collected by European Space Agency’s JUICE mission
The SwRI-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, JUICE, has successfully completed its initial commissioning following the spacecraft’s April 14 launch. This segment of JUICE-UVS data shows…
