NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room on June 26 at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux Engineers…
Category: Planetary Science
Mystery object that washed up on the Australian coast could be space junk, officials say
In this image made from video, a cylindrical object is seen on beach in Green Head, Australia, July 17, 2023. Authorities were investigating on Tuesday whether a cylindrical object about…
Virgin Galatic’s next spaceflight will include sweepstakes winners
This still image from a Virgin Galactic video shows the Galactic 01 mission spacecraft launching the first commercial flight from Spaceport City in New Mexico; Virgin Galactic’s next spaceflight will…
Astronomers observe subpulse drifting and nulling of pulsar PSR J0026–1955
Each pulse stack (pulse phase vs. pulse number) represents the variety of subpulse drifting sequences shown by PSR J0026–1955 at 400 MHz (using uGMRT). Bright yellow diagonally arranged pixels around…
Hubble views a galactic monster
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a monster in the making in this observation of the exceptional galaxy cluster eMACS J1353.7+4329, which lies…
Crowds cheer as India launches a lander and rover to explore the moon’s south pole
Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3, the word for “moon craft” in Sanskrit, blasts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, Friday, July 14, 2023. The Indian spacecraft blazed its…
Japan rocket engine explodes during test: official
Credit: JAXA A Japanese rocket engine exploded during a test on Friday, an official said, in the latest blow to the country’s space agency. The Epsilon S—an improved version of…
Webb Space Telescope reveals moment of stellar birth, dramatic close-up of 50 baby stars
The first anniversary image released Wednesday, July 12, 2023, by Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach, shows NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displaying a star birth like it’s…
Scientists use NASA MESSENGER mission data to measure chromium on Mercury
Color-coded chromium abundance map overlain on MESSENGER image of Mercury. Credit: Larry Nittler/ASU The origin of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, is mysterious in many ways. It has…
A new technique uses remote images to gauge the strength of ancient and active rivers beyond Earth
Images from the Cassini mission show river networks draining into lakes in Titan’s north polar region. Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS Rivers have flowed on two other worlds in the solar system besides…
