Category: Planetary Science
New NASA mission to reveal Earth’s invisible ‘halo’
The first image of UV light from Earth’s outer atmosphere, the geocorona, taken from a telescope designed and built by George Carruthers. The telescope took the image while on the…
NASA’s Deep Space Communications demo exceeds project expectations
In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at JPL’s Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, beams its eight-laser beacon to the Deep Space Optical Communications flight laser transceiver…
Northrop Grumman cargo ship reaches the International Space Station a day late after engine issue
This image provided by NASA shows Northrop Grumman’s newly arrived cargo capsule at the International Space Station on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. Credit: NASA via AP A supply ship arrived…
How NASA’s Roman mission will unveil our home galaxy using cosmic dust
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy’s less sparkly components—gas and dust strewn between stars, known…
Study finds exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e is unlikely to have a Venus- or Mars-like atmosphere
New research using the James Webb Telescope rules out possible atmospheric conditions of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e, depicted at the lower right as it transits in front of its host star.…
Planets without plate tectonics and too little carbon dioxide could mean that technological alien life is rare
An artist’s impression of the rocky, habitable-zone exoplanet Kepler-168b. Credit: NASA Ames/NASA/JPL–Caltech/Tim Pyle (Caltech). The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years…
Where did the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS come from?
The Gemini South Observatory captured this image of the interstellar comet 3L/ATLAS on August 27th. It shows the object’s fuzzy coma and tail, made of volatiles released by the sun’s…
