Tag: exploration
This 10-cm box will make history as the smallest radar instrument to be flown in space – and the very first radar to probe the interior of an asteroid. Its target? The Dimorphos asteroid, which on the night of...
Our James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new image of the famous Pillars of Creation—first imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995—that reveals new details about the region.
The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations but are...
The LICIACube ASI mission is on its way to witness the first voluntary impact with an asteroid, in order to test the planetary defense deflection technique called “kinetic impactor”. The cubesat was designed and manufactured by the Argotec company...
New radio surveys, such as the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) and Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS), conducted with advanced radio telescopes, are providing new opportunities for studying the gamma-ray sky. Radio galaxies, known for their impressive relativistic jets visible...
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed both the parachute that helped the agency’s Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space and during its fiery descent toward the Martian surface on...
Mars has a very thin atmosphere, which at the surface has a density approximately one percent that of Earth's. Until recently, it was unclear whether there is anything to hear in the barren landscape there and if it is...
The Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) is a “cosmic-ray hunter” mission in operation on the International Space Station. Optimized for the detection of high energy electrons, it can also identify individual nuclear species from proton to heavy nuclei (up to...
With its recent 21st flight complete, the Red Planet rotorcraft is on its way to setting more records during its second year of operations.
NASA has extended flight operations of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter through September. In the months ahead,...
The rover’s self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling location.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is trying to cover more distance in a single month than...
Italian scientists have developed a new catalogue of spectroscopic measurements for all Milky Way stars. The Survey of Surveys (SoS) is the largest catalogue of radial velocity to date, containing data for more than 11 million stars. The project...
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