BurstCube, shown in this artist’s concept, will orbit Earth as it hunts for short gamma-ray bursts. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab NASA’s BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions, is on its way to the International Space Station. The spacecraft travels …
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An artist’s rendition of Saturn’s moon Enceladus depicts hydrothermal activity on the seafloor and cracks in the moon’s icy crust that allow material from the watery interior to be ejected into space. New research shows that instruments destined for the next missions could find traces of a single cell in …
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Overview of Feòrachas structure, depicting geometries of lineaments and locations of key observations. Context map shows rover traverse (white line). Boxwork map shows orientation of ridges. Rose diagram depicts orientation of those ridges (resultant 215°, n = 10). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ MSSS. Credit: Geology (2024). DOI: 10.1130/G51849.1 Billions of years ago, …
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Artistic image of a binary system of a red giant star and a younger companion that can merge to produce a blue supergiant. Credit: Casey Reed, NASA An international piece of research, led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has found clues to the nature of some of …
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In this photo released by Roscosmos space corporation, NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, centre, Oleg Novitsky of Roscosmos, bottom, and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus wave as they board to the space ship at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, March 21, 2024. Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has aborted the launch …
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A Mitsubishi Heavy Industries staff member stands next to the top of the first stage of a H3 rocket, inside the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Nagoya Aerospace Systems Works Tobishima Plant in Tobishima, Aichi prefecture Thursday, March 21, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi Japan’s space agency and its prime contractor said …
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A model of NASA’s Mars Science Helicopter concept. Credit: NASA After more than 70 successful flights, a broken rotor ended the remarkable and groundbreaking Ingenuity helicopter mission on Mars. Now, NASA is considering how a larger, more capable helicopter could be an airborne geologist on the Red Planet. For the …
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Spectacular high sun view of the Mare Tranquillitatis pit crater revealing boulders on an otherwise smooth floor. The 100 meter pit may provide access to a lunar lava tube. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University— Public Domain, The moon is practically begging to be explored, and the momentum to do so is …
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This meteoroid broke up by thermal stresses just before entering Earth’s atmosphere, creating a cluster of meteors over Norway on October 30, 2022, recorded by Allsky7 station AMS119 operated by Gaustabanen and Steinar Midtskogen of the Norway Meteor Network. Credit: Mike Hankey, American Meteor Society The dust of comets fills …
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An artist’s impression of an asteroid near Mars. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz (SMM, IAC) Using observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) a study led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) has confirmed that the asteroid 2023 FW14, discovered last …
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