A critical antenna is jammed on a Jupiter-bound spacecraft launched two weeks ago, the European Space Agency reported Friday. The 52-foot (16-meter) radar antenna on Juice unfolded only one-third of…
Category: Planetary Science
Zhurong rover finds evidence of water at low latitudes on modern Mars
(a) Topographic contour map of the environs where the trace is located. The coordinate system is east-north-up (ENU) local Cartesian coordinate and the origin is that of the rover coordinate…
CryoSat reveals ice loss from glaciers
While Greenland and Antarctica are losing masses of ice, so too are most of the glaciers around the world, but it’s tricky to measure how much ice they are shedding.…
Out of gas in orbit? This US space company is here to help
Daniel Faber, CEO of Orbit Fab, says in-orbit refueling will free up a key factor in rocket launches: weight. The US company Orbit Fab is aiming to produce the go-to…
Could quantum fluctuations in the early universe enhance the creation of massive galaxy clusters?
Pandora’s Cluster (NIRCam Image). Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ivo Labbe (Swinburne), Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh). Image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Astrophysicists have been trying to understand the formation…
Is sex in space being taken seriously by the emerging space tourism sector?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain What would a human conception in space mean for the sector? That’s the situation posed by an international group of scientists, clinicians and other interested parties,…
The West Texas effort preserves one of the largest dark sky reserves
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain To sit under the vast expanse of stars is to imagine swimming across shining, stellar rivers, creeks and tributaries. But to sit here also is to…
Researchers reveal early results in sky-brightness measurements in Antarctica
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A research team led by the researcher Wang Jian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), collaborating with the Polar Research Institute of…
NASA scientific balloon prepares to cross South America
Map of SuperBIT Crossing Pacific Ocean. Credit: NASA A NASA super pressure balloon carrying the SuperBIT scientific payload has crossed the Pacific Ocean after just 5 days of flight and…
