Within the Margin: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Kicks Off New Campaign on Mars
Perseverance begins the Margin Campaign on Mars, exploring the origins and significance of Jezero Crater’s marginal carbonates over the next 230 sols. This week on…
Perseverance begins the Margin Campaign on Mars, exploring the origins and significance of Jezero Crater’s marginal carbonates over the next 230 sols. This week on…
New research reveals that supermassive black holes consume surrounding material faster than previously believed. This insight, derived from high-resolution simulations, could explain why quasars flare…
Juice: Why’s It Taking Sooo Long At their closest point in orbit, Earth and Jupiter are separated by almost 600 million kilometers (375 million miles)….
Expedition 69 crew members on the ISS marked a busy week with cleaning, maintenance, and experiments. Frank Rubio, Sergey Prokopyev, and Dmitri Petelin celebrated a…
A cosmic alignment and a little bit of spacecraft gymnastics have provided a ground-breaking measurement that is helping solve the 65-year-old cosmic mystery of why…
The JPL-led international team used the island as a stand-in for Venus to test radar technologies that will help uncover the planet’s ground truth. With…
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is set to return to Earth this fall after setting the record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut….
An international research team used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe the triple protostar system IRAS 04239+2436, to investigate the detailed structure of…
LROC and ShadowCam collaboratively unveil the Shackleton Crater’s mosaic, providing unparalleled insights into the lunar South Pole and its potential ice deposits, aiding future lunar…
Ten orbital residents had a full schedule on Wednesday, September 20, attending to a mix of tasks including eye exams, station maintenance, and training. While…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft fired its thrusters to adjust its trajectory to refine its sample capsule’s landing location on Earth, set for September 24, targeting the…
Navigation systems suitable for lunar surface exploration to chart future expeditions. Kamilla Cziráki, a geophysics student from the Faculty of Science at Eötvös Loránd University…
It’s a full house aboard the International Space Station as 10 residents are living on orbit following Friday’s arrival of a new crew. Tuesday, September…
Approximately 80% of the universe’s matter is composed of a mysterious and unseen substance. This “dark matter” was first theorized nearly 90 years ago. “This…
A research team relies on measuring the number of galaxy members to determine the mass of galaxy clusters. One of the most pressing questions in…
NASA’s Johnson Space Center will reveal the US’s first asteroid sample from the seven-year OSIRIS-REx mission on October 11. This sample will provide insights into…
Astronomers have, for the first time, detected radio waves from a Type Ia supernova, uncovering new clues about white dwarf explosions and their helium-rich environments….
Of all the objects in the Solar System, perhaps the most spectacular are the great comets that occasionally grace our skies. If you’ve been on…