Quiz of the week: how much data will NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope produce each day? – Physics World
Quiz of the week: how much data will NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope produce each day? – Physics…
Hubble Telescope sees spectacular ‘superbubble’ photo of the day for Sept. 4, 2026
This nebula is named LHA 120-N44, or N44 for short, and it’s located in the constellation Dorado. (Image…
Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO
Unleashing Starlink V3… The orbital flight will allow SpaceX to deploy operational payloads. A batch of SpaceX’s next-generation…
America’s first reconnaissance satellite began as range calculations an engineer penciled on a paper placemat while snowed into a Pennsylvania restaurant, and when it reached orbit in June 1960 its cover story was a real scientific experiment, one whose purpose was to measure radiation from the Sun
The National Reconnaissance Office has published its own account of how the United States put a reconnaissance satellite…
The 300-year-old tool helping stranded astronauts get home
For Mars missions, those navigational points may include asteroids, Holt says. “We would say [to the astronaut], we…
Scientists watch a comet being born 3 billion miles away
Astronomers have witnessed a small, icy body that orbits the sun out beyond Jupiter transforming into a comet,…
Tube Launch Boosts Rocket’s Performance
If you want improve a model rocket’s performance, all the common options come with serious trade-offs: you could…
JWST Captures Stunning Evidence of How Supermassive Black Holes Feed
An image of elliptical galaxy NGC4696 located at the center of the Centaurus Cluster taken by the Hubble…
Astronomers See How a Centaur Can Become a Comet
Centaurs are small solar system bodies that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune. Because they move among…
Deep beneath Mars, scientists find a vast hidden magma system
Researchers at the University of Oxford have found evidence that Mars may once have contained enormous Earth-like magmatic…
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area
science Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 2028 The Titan dune field where NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will land…
High-energy fuel passes first rotating detonation rocket engine test
CycloKinetics is testing its alternative rocket fuel with Venus Aerospace in a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE). The…