[ad_1] NASA's mission to the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche has fired up its ion engines and is now cruising across the solar system under the power of solar-electric propulsion.The launch of the spacecraft, which is also called Psyche, on October 13, 2023 gave it...

[ad_1] Back to Article List A classroom concept leads to the discovery of a trio of stars that formed 12 to 13 billion years ago. The Milky Way Galaxy holds remnants of ultrafaint dwarf galaxies. Credit: NASA To find the universe’s oldest stars, you must look for the...

[ad_1] I love the concept of a ‘puffy’ planet! The exoplanets discovered that fall into this category are typically the same size of Jupiter but 1/10th the mass! They tend to orbit their host star at close in orbits and are hot but one has been found that is different...

[ad_1] ESA is releasing a new set of full-colour images captured by the space telescope Euclid.Five new portraits of our cosmos were captured during Euclid’s early observations phase, each revealing amazing new science. Euclid’s ability to unravel the secrets of the...

[ad_1] NASA will keep safety front of mind while harnessing the ever-growing power of artificial intelligence, agency officials stressed.Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is advancing rapidly, as the emergence of tools such as ChatGTP shows. The burgeoning field...

[ad_1] This image from 2013 shows the bright light of a solar flare on the left side of the sun and an eruption of solar material shooting through the sun’s atmosphere, called a prominence eruption. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO. Our Sun is far from a smooth, white ball in...

[ad_1] A future space observatory could use exo-eclipses to tease out exomoon populations. If you’re like us, you’re still coming down from the celestial euphoria that was last month’s total solar eclipse. The spectacle of the Moon blocking out the Sun has also...

[ad_1] Applications 22/05/2024 325 views 4 likes While a meteor lit up the skies over Spain and Portugal recently, it was also captured by the Meteosat Third Generation Imager weather satellite hovering 36,000 km away in geostationary orbit. On 18 May, the meteor...

[ad_1] The U.S. Space Force has ordered a first-of-its-kind satellite docking mission in order to give an on-orbit spacecraft an additional two years of propulsion and maneuverability.Space Systems Command (SSC), an organization within the U.S. Space Force tasked with...

[ad_1] How do scientists weigh celestial objects? Mike Sackheim  Evanston, Illinois  It’s true that you can’t simply place a planet or galaxy on a scale to measure how heavy it is. Luckily, astronomers have a few tricks up their sleeves. The first trick is...