A surprise chemical find by ALMA may help detect and confirm protoplanets
Friday, 30 June 2023 00:05
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study the protoplanetary disk around a young star have discovered the most compelling chemical evidence to date of the formation of protoplanets. The discovery will provide astronomers with an alternate method for detecting and characterizing protoplanets when direct observations or imaging are not possible. The results NASA's Webb identifies the earliest strands of the cosmic web
Friday, 30 June 2023 00:05
Galaxies are not scattered randomly across the universe. They gather together not only into clusters, but into vast interconnected filamentary structures with gigantic barren voids in between. This "cosmic web" started out tenuous and became more distinct over time as gravity drew matter together.
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a thread-like arrangement Webb detects host galaxies of quasars in the early universe
Friday, 30 June 2023 00:05
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed, for the first time, starlight from two massive galaxies hosting actively growing black holes - quasars - seen less than a billion years after the Big Bang. A new study in Nature this week finds the black holes have masses close to a billion times that of the Sun, and the host galaxy masses are almost one hundred times larger, a ratio A simulation finds solutions to a central mystery in space physics
Friday, 30 June 2023 00:05
How are plasma eruptions in near-Earth space formed? Vlasiator, a model designed at the University of Helsinki for simulating near-Earth space, demonstrated that the two central theories on the occurrence of eruptions are simultaneously valid: eruptions are explained by both magnetic reconnection and kinetic instabilities.
Rapid plasma eruptions known as plasmoids take place on the nightsi First 'ghost particle' image of Milky Way galaxy captured by scientists
Friday, 30 June 2023 00:05
From visible starlight to radio waves, the Milky Way galaxy has long been observed through the various frequencies of electromagnetic radiation it emits. Scientists have now revealed a uniquely different image of our galaxy by determining the galactic origin of thousands of neutrinos - invisible "ghost particles" which exist in great quantities but normally pass straight through Earth undetected Exploring the geometry of the dark Universe
Friday, 30 June 2023 00:05
Euclid of Alexandria is considered to be the 'father' of geometry. In his most famous work, 'Elements', he brought together the knowledge of mathematics available in his time, presented it in a consistent way and defined a strict method of proof that became the model for later mathematics. Many structures, theorems and proofs are therefore named after Euclid - and now also a space telescope. The ALMA digs deeper into the mystery of planet formation
Friday, 30 June 2023 00:05
An international research team used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe disks around 19 protostars with a very high resolution to search for the earliest signs of planet formation. This survey was motivated by the recent findings that planet formation may be well-underway in the more-evolved proto-planetary disks, but until now there had been no systematic study to IceCube shows Milky Way galaxy is a neutrino desert
Friday, 30 June 2023 00:05
The Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, dominating all wavelengths of light and viewable with the naked eye as a hazy band of stars stretching from horizon to horizon. Now, for the first time, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has produced an image of the Milky Way using neutrinos - tiny, ghostlike astronomical messengers.
In a June 30 article in the journal Scien Our galaxy seen through a new lens: Neutrinos detected by IceCube
Friday, 30 June 2023 00:05
Our Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, viewable with the naked eye as a horizon-to-horizon hazy band of stars. Now, for the first time, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has produced an image of the Milky Way using neutrinos-tiny, ghostlike astronomical messengers. In an article to be published tomorrow, June 30, in the journal Science, the IceCube Collaboration, an in SpaceX to launch European astronomy mission
Thursday, 29 June 2023 22:40
A European spacecraft is set to launch on a mission to help astronomers resolve an “embarrassing situation” in cosmology, although the launch itself is another kind of embarrassing situation for Europe.
Space Development Agency issues new solicitation for 100 satellites
Thursday, 29 June 2023 18:54
The Space Development Agency on June 28 released a solicitation for bids for its next procurement of 100 satellites as the agency continues to build out a military constellation in low Earth orbit.
Firefly to launch Lockheed Martin small-satellite experiment
Thursday, 29 June 2023 18:27
Firefly Aerospace signed an agreement with Lockheed Martin to launch a small satellite aboard Firefly's Alpha vehicle.
Italian researchers reach the edge of space flying aboard Virgin Galactic's rocket-powered plane
Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:14
The Mars Sample Return mission is starting to look expensive
Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:57
Getting to space is hard. It's even more hard to do new and interesting things in space. And when projects get hard, that usually means they cost more money. That is certainly the case for one of the most anticipated missions on NASA's current docket—the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. And it's not looking like it's going to get any easier anytime soon.
A recent report from Casey Dreier, the Planetary Society's Chief of Space Policy, looks at some of the challenges the mission faces. Arguably, the mission itself has already started, with Perseverance busily capturing, analyzing, and then dropping off samples to be returned to the laboratories on Earth. But three other main mission components still need to be completed for those samples ever to see the light of day (or the light of a sealed laboratory chamber) on Earth.
NASA is responsible for two of those components—the Sample Return Lander (SLR) and the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV). Each is appropriately named, as the SLR is designed to land, collect the samples that Perseverance has been collecting, and then return them to the MAV.
Virgin Galactic completes first commercial SpaceShipTwo suborbital flight
Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:08
After nearly two decades of development, Virgin Galactic conducted its first commercial SpaceShipTwo suborbital flight June 29.