The first 'birder's guide' to meteor showers
Thursday, 02 November 2023 11:00
Mountain View CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2023
The SETI Institute is proud to announce a new book by SETI Institute meteor astronomer Dr. Peter Jenniskens. Called "Atlas of Earth's Meteor Showers," this comprehensive guide describes over 500 meteor showers that appear in our night skies and adds a wealth of detail to the tapestry of our solar system.
"Just as in a birder's guide, the book describes the outward appearance, range, season

Bewitched Battery: Sols 3994-3995
Thursday, 02 November 2023 11:00
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 01, 2023
Earth planning date: Monday, October 30, 2023: Mondays are scary enough, so the team was extra spooked when the morning's downlink showed our incoming power state as lower than what we planned. Ghosts of Mars? (A movie I recommend, by the way) Maybe... but if our rover was in a scary movie she'd be the last one standing. And so our team began a willowy plan this Hallows' Eve to continue on our D

Giant planets cast a deadly pall
Thursday, 02 November 2023 11:00
Riverside CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2023
Giant gas planets can be agents of chaos, ensuring nothing lives on their Earth-like neighbors around other stars. New studies show, in some planetary systems, the giants tend to kick smaller planets out of orbit and wreak havoc on their climates.
Jupiter, by far the biggest planet in our solar system, plays an important protective role. Its enormous gravitational field deflects comets and

Permanent residency in space
Thursday, 02 November 2023 10:33
30 years of ESA innovation: GSTP
Thursday, 02 November 2023 08:33
30 years of ESA innovation: GSTP
The future’s magnetic pull
Thursday, 02 November 2023 08:17
UK pushing to combine OneWeb Gen 2 and European sovereign constellation efforts
Thursday, 02 November 2023 08:00

Launch your career in space! Apply now to the ESA Student Internship Programme
Thursday, 02 November 2023 07:24
The 2024 internship opportunities at ESA have been published! Applications are open for one month and positions are available in engineering, science, IT, natural/social sciences, business, economics and administration services. This is your chance to kick-off your career in the space sector!
Heterogeneity of Earth's mantle may be relics of Moon formation
Thursday, 02 November 2023 07:10
Shanghai, China (SPX) Nov 02, 2023
An interdisciplinary international research team has recently discovered that a massive anomaly deep within the Earth's interior may be a remnant of the collision about 4.5 billion years ago that formed the Moon.
This research offers important new insights not only into Earth's internal structure but also its long-term evolution and the formation of the inner solar system.
The study,

Innovative three legged landing system tested for small body exploration
Thursday, 02 November 2023 07:10
Beijing, China (SPX) Nov 02, 2023
In an era where the bounds of space exploration are continually being stretched, a team from the Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, and Polytechnic University of Milan have made significant strides in the development of landing mechanisms tailored for small celestial bodies. These environments pose unique challenges due to their low gravity and un

Estimating depositional timing on Mars using cosmogenic radionuclide data
Thursday, 02 November 2023 07:10
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 02, 2023
As Perseverance continues to wrap up its current activities at Turquoise Bay where it collected a new sample for possible return to Earth, the Mars 2020 team is getting ready for Perseverance to approach the next site in the Margin Unit campaign, a site called Jurabi Point, also known as the "gateway" to Gnaraloo Bay. Here Perseverance will encounter what is known as a "triple junction" between

Mars Climate Sounder data reveals new cloud trends, study shows
Thursday, 02 November 2023 07:10
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 02, 2023
In a groundbreaking collaborative effort, a new study drawing on the collective efforts of citizen scientists has shed light on the intricate patterns of Martian clouds. The research, fueled by contributions from the "Cloudspotting on Mars" project, has now reached a milestone with its acceptance for publication, soon to feature in a special Mars-focused issue of the esteemed journal Icarus.

NRL ISS Mission seeks new bioinspired materials
Thursday, 02 November 2023 07:10
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 02, 2023
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Melanized Microbes for Multiple Uses in Space Project, or MELSP, will use the International Space Station (ISS) to search for production of melanin variants and other useful biomaterials that can have applications both on Earth and in space. The mission is scheduled to launch in early November 2023.
Melanin is described as a group of biopolymers respons

New scientific experimental samples from China's space station return to Earth
Thursday, 02 November 2023 07:10
Beijing (XNA) Nov 02, 2023
The fifth batch of scientific experimental samples from China's Tiangong space station has arrived in Beijing, following the return of the Shenzhou XVI crew on Tuesday.
Samples of 19 scientific experiments, weighing around 25 kilograms, were brought back to Earth, including liver cells, protein and nucleic acid, Arabidopsis plants, rice seeds, radiation-resistant microbes and some chemical
