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…
Category: Planetary Science
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…
New look at ‘Einstein rings’ around distant galaxies just got us closer to solving the dark matter debate
Multiple images of a background image created by gravitational lensing can be seen in the system HS 0810+2554. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope / NASA / ESA Physicists believe most of…
SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
SpaceX’s Starship launches from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, April 20, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay SpaceX’s giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off Thursday on it first…
European Space Agency chief eyes tapping private industry partners
Josef Aschbacher, director general of the European Space Agency, speaks in Paris, November 23, 2022. European Space Agency director Josef Aschbacher promised a “transformation” of the continent’s space sector in…
The moon may be the best place to transport rocket fuel
Artist depiction of future lunar astronauts. Credit: NASA When astronauts return to the moon in the next few years, the plan is to have them stay for good while establishing…
What to know about 1st test flight of SpaceX’s big Starship
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…
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…
