[ad_1] The ESO’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is perched high in the Chilean Andes. ALMA is made of 66 high-precision antennae that all work together to observe light just between radio and infrared. Its specialty is cold objects, and in recent...

[ad_1] Enabling & Support 17/11/2023 2889 views 45 likes In brief On 17 November 2023, ESA’s Juice spacecraft carried out one of the largest and most important manoeuvres in its eight-year journey to Jupiter.Using its main engine, Juice changed its orbit around...

[ad_1] SpaceX is set to launch 22 Starlink internet satellites from Florida tonight (Nov. 17), the first of two planned Starlink missions this weekend.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight during a...

[ad_1] James H. Newman (right) and Jerry L. Ross (lower left) work on the recently-connected Russian-built FGB Module (Zarya) and the United States-built Unity Module in 1998. The photograph was taken out the window of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Endeavour....

[ad_1] Twenty-two light-years away, a rocky world orbits a red dwarf. It’s called LTT 1445Ac, and NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) found it in 2022. However, TESS was unable to gauge the small planet’s size. That’s okay. The venerable Hubble took...

[ad_1] A team of university students from University College Dublin is taking Ireland to space, for the very first time. The story begins in 2017, when the team was accepted to ESA's educational CubeSat programme, Fly Your Satellite! Over the course of six years, they...

[ad_1] The case of the mysterious moon crash is now conclusively closed, a new study reports.On March 4, 2022, a rocket body slammed into the moon's far side, blasting out a weird double crater about 95 feet (29 meters) wide. The crash did not come as a surprise;...

[ad_1] heic2311 — Science Release 16 November 2023 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has measured the size of the nearest Earth-sized exoplanet that passes across the face of a neighbouring star. This alignment, called a transit, opens the door to follow-on studies...

[ad_1] Comet Pons-Brooks underwent a second outburst in early October 2023, once again developing "horns," as captured here while it was in Draco. Credit: Chris Schur Comets have gotten a lot of press this year, but not all of it good. In particular, numerous...

[ad_1] On November 2, Virgin Galactic flew Unity 2 on the Galactic 05 mission. It carried two scientists, a private tourist, and an astronaut trainer on a sub-orbital trip flown by Pilots Mike Masucci and Kelly Latimer. It was the company’s sixth successful flight in...