NASA's Dragonfly mission to Saturn's largest moon will touch down on a terrain of dunes and shattered, icy bedrock, according to a new analysis of radar imagery from the Cassini spacecraft. Launching in 2027, Dragonfly is a rotorcraft that will arrive ...
A Chinese spacecraft has taken flight to study the sun and improve space-weather predictions. The satellite, known as the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), lifted off atop a Long March 2D rocket on Saturday (Oct. 8) at 7:43 p.m. EDT (2343 ...
On July 10, 2022, a gigantic solar prominence appeared in the sun's chromosphere, throwing a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. Luckily, I happened to check the solar activity at the end of the day. Normally I don't photograph the sun so late, ...
That's no star but rather the big guy of our solar system, the planet Jupiter. The 88,000-mile-wide planet, named after the king of the gods in Roman mythology, is visible all night long right now and is almost at its closest approach to Earth for 2022.
Go ahead. Get all the jokes out. You know you want to. I've done it, too, but quite honestly, they were all much funnier in seventh grade! In a few days the planet Uranus (pronounced YOU-rah-nus, by the way), will undergo what astronomers call a lunar ...
The night skies could be more spectacular than usual this month, thanks to the Orionid meteor shower. The annual meteor shower is considered to be one of the most beautiful meteor showers of the year, known for lighting up dark skies with bright, ...
The origin story of this natural satellite remains a mystery yet to be fully solved. Researchers have now developed a new theory that proposes that the moon was placed immediately into orbit after a giant impact between Earth ...
After a trajectory correction manoeuvre on September 8, NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft suffered an issue that caused it to spin so fast that the onboard reaction wheel could not control or counter it. CAPSTONE team members successfully completed an ...
A surge of new asteroid discoveries could be just on the horizon, though, thanks to the Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor) space telescope, the world's first spacecraft specifically designed to find hazardous NEOs.
Artificial retinas: Connecticut startup LambdaVision is using a light-activated protein, called "bacteriorhodopsin," to build artificial retinas. The hope is that the devices will one day restore vision in people with retinal degeneration by filling in for ...
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