space NASA Shared New Stunning Photos of the Moon's South Pole The images were taken by a highly sensitive optical ShadowCam camera carried around the Moon by the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), which launched in August 2022 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
space Astronomers Spotted a Star Swallowing Its Planet for the First Time The Sun will swallow the three closest planets to it (Mercury, Venus, and Earth) when it enters the red giant stage in about five billion years. According to scientists, this observation gave the first real idea of how this engulfment occurs.
space A Key to a Crypto Wallet Holding 62 Bitcoins Will Be Sent to the Moon The key will be engraved on a probe that will be delivered to the Moon by a SpaceX rocket this fall. The company also claims that no one will have access to the key, including employees within the company.
space Scientists Confirmed the Composition of Mars's Core Using Seismic Waves Scientists were able to confirm the composition of Mars's core using seismic waves that traveled through the Red Planet. It turned out that Mats has a liquid core made of iron alloy and high amounts of sulfur and oxygen.
space You Can Now Compare the Sizes of Different Space Objects on a Dedicated Website The website is called Space Object Comparison. It includes the following categories of space objects that can be compared: black holes, space objects from the solar system, Alpha Centauri, Kepler-10 system, Sirius system, and others.
space Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit Files for Bankruptcy The announcement comes just days after the company said it would pause operations and lay off nearly all of its workforce. Impacted employees will reportedly receive severance packages.
space Relativity Space Launched the World's First 3D-Printed Rocket into Space Terran 1 failed to reach orbit in its test flight, but it represents a significant achievement. First-launch failures happen quite often and help gather valuable data for future developments and missions.
space NASA Unveils the Most Detailed 3D Map of Mars The most detailed interactive map of Mars has a resolution of about 25 square meters per pixel and was created by the scientists of the Bruce Murray Planetary Visualization Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology over the course of six years.
space Astronomers Detect the Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst in Space Numerous space detectors recorded a powerful gamma-ray burst passing through our solar system. The burst was officially named GRB 221009A, but unofficially it was dubbed BOAT, which stands for "brightest of all time."
space NASA's James Webb Telescope Captures New Images of Uranus The so-called polar cap is clearly visible on the right side of the planet in the image. It appears when the pole is exposed to direct sunlight in the summer and disappears in the fall.
space NASA and Axiom Space Unveil a New Spacesuit for Artemis Moon Landing Previously, NASA has selected Axiom Space as a company to develop and produce a next-generation spacesuit for the upcoming Artemis Lunar Program and future missions to the International Space Station (ISS).
space NASA's Webb Telescope Spots Dust Storms on a Distant Exoplanet Researchers proved that its swirling clouds are made up of silicate particles, ranging from tiny specks to small grains. The temperature of the atmosphere reaches 830 degrees Celsius (1,500 degrees Fahrenheit).
space Saturn's Moon Mimas May Be a Stealth Ocean World Recent numerical simulations of Herschel's crater on the satellite determined that the basin structure and lack of tectonics on Mimas were compatible with thinning ice shell and a geologically young ocean.
space NASA's Curiosity Rover Snapped a Photo of a Sunset on Mars Martian clouds are mostly made of frozen ice and float about 60 kilometers above the ground. However, in this new image, the clouds reach an unusually higher altitude. NASA suggests these clouds are probably made of carbon dioxide ice, also known as dry ice.
space NASA's Juno Spacecraft Captured an Infrared Image of Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io Scientists hope to gather more data on the moon's volcanoes that affect the planet's magnetic field and help form massive auroras on Jupiter. According to the researchers, Jupiter has the brightest auroras in the entire solar system.
space Hubble Space Telescope Captures Aftermath of NASA's DART Asteroid Impact The newly released movie begins roughly 1.3 hours before the DART impact, then shows the system of two asteroids two hours after the event, with debris moving at speeds fast enough to overcome the gravitational pull of the asteroid system.
space Hubble Space Telescope Spots a Rare View of 3 Galaxies About to Collide This colliding trio, collectively known to astronomers as SDSSCGB 10189, is a relatively rare combination of three large star-forming galaxies only 50,000 light-years apart. According to scientists, this is an extremely small distance on a cosmic scale.
space A Strange and Unusual Vortex Was Spotted Around the Sun's North Pole Researchers explain that the Sun is now increasing its activity, but this is not a cause for concern. Such activity cycles occur quite frequently and coincide with fluctuations in the Sun's magnetic field.
space Astronomers Find a New Potential Habitable Exoplanet 31 Light-Years Away The planet, named Wolf 1069 b, is located in the habitable zone of its star, a red dwarf. A habitable zone is an area where conditions are suitable for the existence of liquid water on the surface, which means that the planet can hypothetically sustain life.
space NASA Shares a New Stunning Image of Earth Taken by the NOAA-21 Satellite As noted, the images of the Earth that make up this mosaic and several close-ups were captured on December 5 and 6 using an instrument called the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard the NOAA-21 imaging satellite.
space Astronomers Discover a "Mirror Image" of the Milky Way from Billions of Years Ago Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a galaxy that looks very similar to our Milky Way in its early stages of evolution. It was named the Sparkler because almost two dozen glittering globular clusters orbit it.
space NASA's Perseverance Rover Records the Sound of a Dust Devil on Mars On September 27, 2021, the vortex of at least 118 metres high and 25 metres wide passed directly over the rover as it landed in the Jezero crater.
space Saudi Arabia Will Send Its First Female Astronaut Into Space Rayyana Barnawi will join her fellow Saudi astronaut Ali Al-Qarni on a 10-day mission to the International Space Station. Barnawi and Al Qarni will fly to the ISS aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft as part of a mission by private space company Axiom Space.
space Astronomers Discover an Earth-Sized Planet Within Its Star's Habitable Zone Planets located outside the solar system are called exoplanets. The Earth-like planet, dubbed TOI 700 e, is the fourth exoplanet to be discovered orbiting the small, cool dwarf star TOI 700.
space We Can Now Hear the Sound of One of the Milky Way's Most Beautiful Stars Converting visual data into auditory data makes it more accessible to people with visual impairments. In addition, this approach can reveal details in the data, like patterns and weaker signals, that might otherwise be overlooked.
