Planetary photobombers may be quite interesting for some people. But, these exoplanets can actually affect NASA and other space agencies, especially during data analysis. On Earth, photobombers can… [+2564 chars]
UNITED STATES: On Saturday, August 20, a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship carrying tonnes of scientific equipment from the International Space Station made its way back to Earth with an ocean splashdown. Af… [+2956 chars]
Astronomers are hoping for cloudy skies as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) turns its attention to alien atmospheres filled with rocks and water vapor crystals like corundum and perovski… [+5406 chars]
On August 16, the results of the annual open competition for Russian Government Scholarships became available. 23 students and 17 PhD students of Ural Federal University became winners of the competi… [+1631 chars]
Jupiters icy moon Europa is an ocean world surrounded by a thick icy crust, where snow drifts upward. Underwater snow forms in the worlds oceans and migrates underwater to cling to submerged canyons… [+2830 chars]
At 3:58 pm IST on August 21, 1972, NASA launched the heaviest and most complex space telescope of its time-- the Copernicus space telescope. Named after Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who fir… [+2846 chars]
What is a Black Hole? To fully appreciate why you can’t just swan dive or maneuver your spacecraft into a black hole, you must first understand the basic properties of these gravitational behemoths.… [+4910 chars]
In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope gave us our first direct image of a black hole. It was a powerful image, but not one with much detail. It looks like a blurry orange donut. To be fair, the real … [+3030 chars]
What is a Black Hole? To fully appreciate why you can’t just swan dive or maneuver your spacecraft into a black hole, you must first understand the basic properties of these gravitational behemoths.… [+4910 chars]
Last week, NASA revealed some of the science and technology payloads that will be hitching a ride to deep space with the agency’s Artemis I moon mission. In the same week, a Russian cosmonaut had to … [+6757 chars]
WASHINGTON As NASA takes the primary steps to implement the suggestions of its decade-old planetary science survey, the company warns that not less than near-term funding will fall in need of this re… [+2812 chars]
High in the atmosphere of Venus, a swirl of sulfur-containing clouds blankets the planet. Dark spots in these clouds correspond with areas of high ultraviolet light absorption, but researchers have y… [+4365 chars]
