[ad_1] heic2309 — Science Release 5 October 2023 A very rare, strange burst of extraordinarily bright light in the universe just got even stranger – thanks to the eagle-eye of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The phenomenon, called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical...

[ad_1] NIRCam (the Near Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured this picture of the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Webb identified carbon dioxide on the icy surface of Europa that likely originated in the moon’s subsurface ocean. Credit:...

[ad_1] The Parker Solar Probe is the little engine that just keeps going and going by the Sun. On September 27th, it made its 17th close approach and skimmed just 7.26 million kilometers (4.51 million miles) above the sun’s “surface” layer (called the photosphere)....

[ad_1] Science & Exploration 05/10/2023 4217 views 36 likes In brief Euclid has found its ‘lost’ guide stars as a software patch has solved its navigation woes and the next six years of observation schedules have been redesigned to avoid stray sunlight: it’s the...

[ad_1] Nearly 1,000 light-years from where you're sitting lies a spinning, highly magnetized neutron star that is so dense, a tablespoon of it equals something like the weight of Mount Everest. It's an intense sight, to say the least, which is why astronomers...

[ad_1] This artist’s impression of Gliese 581 planetary system, which is 20.5 light years away from Earth and hosts four planets, all larger than Earth. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada I remember well the thunderous moment in 1992 when astronomers discovered the first planet...

[ad_1] Most of the spacecraft we send out into the Solar System are never meant to return. Time, space, and entropy overtake them, or else they’re purposely sent crashing to their doom at the end of their missions. But not OSIRIS-REx. Its mission was only a success...

[ad_1] Applications 04/10/2023 1651 views 31 likes Measurements from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite show that this year’s ozone hole over Antarctica is one of the biggest on record. The hole, which is what scientists call an ‘ozone depleting area,’ reached a...

[ad_1] The first lunar lander to be built in Houston is ready to leave Space City for the moon.Intuitive Machines on Tuesday (Oct. 2) provided a last close-up look at its Nova-C robotic lander before packing it up to move to Florida in preparation for its launch. The...

[ad_1] Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover has traveled 328 feet. (100 meters) and measured the chemistry of the lunar soil. Credit: ISRO Jeffrey Gillis-Davis, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis In an exciting milestone for lunar scientists around the...