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…
Category: Planetary Science
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,…
Mars terrain recreation at ESA
Credit: ESA-Remedia A downward view of ESA’s rock-strewn recreation of the Red Planet, is designed to put prototype planetary rovers through their paces. Officially part of the Planetary Robotics Laboratory…
How do you recognize the atmosphere of extraterrestrial lava worlds?
An artist’s conception of star scorching its nearby exoplanet. New research shows that aging red giant stars, far from destroying life, could warm frozen worlds into habitable homes. Credit: ESO/L.…
Global team to simulate message from extraterrestrial intelligence to Earth
L-R (clockwise): The Allen Telescope Array, Green Bank Telescope and Medecina Radio Astronomical Station. Credit: Allen Telescope Array: Joe MarfiaGreen Bank Telescope: Jay YoungMedecina Radio Astronomical Station: Medecina Radio Astronomical…
Private mission carrying Saudi astronauts launches to ISS
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Axiom Mission 2 astronauts, including two from Saudi Arabia, lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 21, 2023, bound…
