Graphic illustrating how a servicer spacecraft could remove debris from orbit using electrostatic forces. Credit: Schaub Lab On Feb. 10, 2009, disaster struck hundreds of miles above the Siberian Peninsula.…
Category: Planetary Science
Once hostile, NASA holds first public meeting on UFOs
Scientists at NASA’s first ever public meeting on “unidentified anomalous phenomena” — more commonly called UFOs — have called for a more rigorous scientific approach to clarify the origin of…
Study investigates the behavior of X-ray binary GX 349+2
The two-days binned MAXI light curve of GX 349+2. The red and blue vertical lines represent AstroSat and NICER observations. Credit: Kashyap et al., 2023. Using the AstroSat spacecraft and…
One-third of galaxy’s most common planets could be in habitable zone
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Our familiar, warm, yellow sun is a relative rarity in the Milky Way. By far the most common stars are considerably smaller and cooler, sporting just…
Meet the scientist (sort of) spending a year on Mars
A portion of Mars Dune Alpha is seen at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Living on Mars wasn’t exactly a childhood dream for Canadian biologist Kelly Haston, though…
Crash of private Japanese moon lander blamed on software, last-minute location switch
In this photo provided by ispace, engineers and affiliates work on the flight model of the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander at the IABG Space Test Centre in Ottobrunn, Germany,…
Virgin Galactic resumes spaceflights after two year pause
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo space plane Unity and mothership seen separating above Spaceport America, New Mexico in July 2021 — the company has resumed spaceflights after a nearly two-year hiatus. Virgin…
New methods will allow for better tests of Einstein’s general theory of relativity using LIGO data
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity describes how the fabric of space and time, or spacetime, is curved in response to mass. Our sun, for example,…
