Credit: SpaceX NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Doug “Wheels” Wheelock participated in a recent test of a sub-scale mockup elevator for SpaceX’s Starship human landing system that will be used…
Category: Planetary Science
International astronaut will be invited on future NASA moon landing
Artemis II crew members from left, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Jeremy Hansen speak to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House…
Supercomputer provides new suite of Lyman-α forest simulations for illustrating large-scale structure of universe
TACC’s Frontera supercomputer helped astronomers develop PRIYA, the largest suite of hydrodynamic simulations yet made of large-scale structures in the universe. Example Lyman-α forest spectra from quasar light and corresponding…
Trying to communicate with whales is like talking to extraterrestrials
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Communicating between species isn’t something that only has to take place between space-faring civilizations. There are plenty of species here on our home planet that communicate…
Breakthrough Listen scans entire galaxies for signals from extremely advanced civilizations
Sky map of galaxy targets. The colored squares indicate whether the full source is covered by the GBT beam at all four bands (see Table 1), three bands, two, one,…
Biggest solar flare in years temporarily disrupts radio signals on Earth
This photo provided by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare, as seen in the bright flash in the upper right, on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023.…
Discovery of two planetary systems around sun-like stars
Figure 1: The small panel on the top left shows an illustration of NASA’s TESS space telescope, responsible for the first identification of the exoplanets TOI-2141b and TOI-1736b. The background…
Webb finds icy complex organic molecules around protostars
NGC 1333 is an extremely active star-forming region. This Hubble image shows how dust obscures most of the star formation. Radio telescopes have found iCOMs around young protostars in this…
