How Sentinel-3 tracks climate change
Applications 04/09/2026 228 views 6 likes Copernicus Sentinel-3 is one of the most diverse missions for measuring and…
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…
Amendment 73: D.9 Habitable Worlds Observatory Instrument Concept Assessments: Correction regarding collaborators on category 2 proposals
Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) Instrument Concept Assessments (HWO-ICA) program element D.9 of ROSES-25, solicits proposals to support maturation…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
NASA’s Pluto Probe Could Lose 2 Key Instruments at a Crucial Moment
An iconic NASA probe is currently around 6 billion miles (9.7 billion kilometers) away from Earth, returning data…
An 18-year-old high school senior from Pasadena wrote machine-learning code to comb 200 billion entries of raw infrared sky data, sorted what came back, and in 2025 found 1.5 million new potential objects
Let’s start with the number that makes the rest of the story hard to picture: 200 billion. That…
Penultimate Lunar Occultations Inbound for Jupiter, Venus and More in September
The Moon has a full dance card along the ecliptic this month. The Moon is busy in September.…