This undated photo provided by SpaceX shows the company’s Starship rocket at the launch site in Boca Chica, Texas. Credit: SpaceX via AP Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to take…
Category: Planetary Science
SpaceX will try to launch most powerful rocket ever Monday
A prototype of Starship, a huge rocket made by SpaceX, sits on a launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas in February 2022. SpaceX plans to carry out its first test flight…
Surface shaking could trigger landslides
Examples of ridge-and-trough terrains from the four studied icy satellites. Arrows point along representative scarps in each example. (a) Boundary between Harpagia Sulcus and Nicholson Regio, Ganymede (Planetary Data System…
Hubble captures ‘jellyfish galaxy’ JO204
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows JO204, a ‘jellyfish galaxy’ so named for the bright tendrils…
NASA’s Lucy mission snaps its first views of Trojan asteroid targets
Credit: NASA Some of the asteroids NASA’s Lucy mission will visit are still more than 330 million miles (530 million kilometers) away from the spacecraft, which is more than three…
European spacecraft on way to Jupiter and its icy moons
In this image provided by the European Space Agency, an Ariane rocket carrying the robotic explorer Juice takes off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, Friday, April 14, 2023. European…
TESS discovers a Venus-sized exoplanet orbiting nearby star
Phase-folded photometry of LHS 475 highlighting the 3-hour window surrounding the planetary transits. Credit: Ment et al, 2023 Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a team of astronomers from…
Europe’s Jupiter probe set for new launch attempt
Thursday’s launch was called off just minutes before countdown due to bad weather in Kourou. The European Space Agency’s JUICE mission to explore Jupiter’s icy, ocean-bearing moons will again try…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover gets a major software upgrade
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover will drive faster and reduce wear on its wheels thanks to two of the new capabilities included with a major software update that was completed on…
Astronomers peer inside the ‘Dragon Cloud’
arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.15499″> The inner core of the “dragon cloud” complex. Credit: Barnes et al, arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.15499 How did the most massive stars form? Astronomers have debated…
