Juice ESA's Juice deep-space Jupiter mission first images.newatlas.com - David Szondy ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) deep-space probe showed its stuff recently when it captured an image of Jupiter and its four largest moons – …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo ESA's Rosalind Franklin Mars rover receives full suite of instrumentsnewatlas.com - David Szondy ESA's Rosalind Franklin Mars rover has received its full suite of scientific instruments that it will use to seek out signs of past or present life …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoSupernovae Interstellar isotopes found in Antarctica were forged from supernovaenewatlas.com - Michael Irving In the pure white snow of Antarctica, scientists have found rare isotopes that don't occur naturally on Earth. The isotope, known as iron-60, is …
Exoplanets NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope sheds light on Moon-like exoplanetnewatlas.com - David Szondy NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has provided new insights into a rocky exoplanet that may be very similar to the planet Mercury or Earth's Moon. …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoChandrayaan Programme India's Chandrayaan-2 mission achieves lunar orbit ahead of Moon landingnewatlas.com - Anthony Wood India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has successfully made orbit around the Moon. The ambitious mission, which is comprised of an orbiter, a lander, and …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Eight new repeating radio signals detected from deep spacenewatlas.com - Michael Irving Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most intriguing mysteries of modern astronomy. Picked up from all corners of the cosmos, these perplexing …
Technology NASA completes tool tests for orbital refueling projectnewatlas.com - David Szondy NASA has completed the first round of tool tests aboard the International Space Station (ISS) aimed at determining the feasibility of in-orbit …
Moon NASA confirms Europa Clipper mission to study Jupiter's icy moonnewatlas.com - David Szondy NASA has given the official go-ahead for the Europa Clipper deep-space mission to make a detailed survey of one of Jupiter's largest moons. Scheduled …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNeutron Stars Gravitational waves point to a black hole swallowing a neutron starnewatlas.com - Michael Irving Astronomers have detected a gravitational wave signal that appears to have been caused by a black hole swallowing a neutron star. Aside from being an …
Planetary Habitability Virtual universes study suggests habitable Earth-like exoplanets are more common than we thoughtnewatlas.com - Michael Irving Earth is – for now – the only place in the universe that we know hosts life, so it makes sense that astronomers focus the search for alien life on …
Cornell University Life on exoplanets may give off a fluorescent glownewatlas.com - David Szondy Scientists at Cornell University say that life-bearing exoplanets may be detectable by their soft glow. Based on laboratory studies, the team led by …
Asteroids Long-missing, potentially dangerous asteroid finally rediscovered – and it won't hit Earthnewatlas.com - Michael Irving Of all the things you don't want to lose, an asteroid with a chance of striking Earth is pretty high up the list. A space rock called 2006 QV89 has …
Galaxies Yale simulations probe the unstable recipe behind "intergalactic pancakes"newatlas.com - Michael Irving Galaxies are well studied, but far less is known about the vast stretches of space between them. Though it seems empty, the intergalactic medium …
Rosetta Mission Rosetta images reveal comet 67P/C-G had a tiny, temporary moonnewatlas.com - David Szondy Images sent back by ESA's Rosetta comet probe show that it wasn't only thing orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G). A comparison of …
ESA encounters parachute trouble as it readies ExoMars 2020 lander for launchnewatlas.com - Nick Lavars A joint venture between the ESA and Roscosmos to place a rover and science platform on Mars has hit a stumbling block, with the parachutes needed to …
Asteroid Bennu Asteroid Bennu to be covered in mythical birdsnewatlas.com - David Szondy If you plan to visit asteroid (101955) Bennu, you'll need a new map. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System …
Galaxies Astronomers discover 39 ancient, massive galaxies hiding in invisible lightnewatlas.com - Michael Irving A galaxy seems like a hard thing to miss – let alone 39 of them – but that's exactly what a team of astronomers has just discovered. So where have …
NASA Mars 2020 rover passes robotic eye examnewatlas.com - David Szondy NASA's Mars 2020 Mars rover passed its first set of eye exams as engineers work on the unmanned explorer's array of cameras. The first complement of …
CubeSats NASA's steam-propelled CubeSats control one another in spacenewatlas.com - Nick Lavars CubeSats are tiny spacecraft with huge potential, but their small stature doesn't lend itself to typical propulsion methods. This has led scientists …
Dark Matter Did dark matter arise before the Big Bang?newatlas.com - Michael Irving Few things are as mysterious as dark matter, the strange substance that appears to outnumber ordinary matter by a ratio of five to one. Now, a …
Hubble New Hubble portrait captures the intricate beauty of Jupiter's cloud surfacenewatlas.com - Anthony Wood The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a breathtakingly detailed view of the largest planet in our solar system – the gas giant Jupiter. …
Orion Spacecraft NASA test fires Orion service module enginenewatlas.com - David Szondy NASA has put a key component of its Orion deep-space probe through its paces, conducting a static firing of the spacecraft's service module's main …
Magnetism Astronomers hope to search for radio waves broadcast from dead planets orbiting dead starsnewatlas.com - Michael Irving In about five billion years' time, the Sun will grow into a red giant, probably swallowing the Earth and putting an end to any and all life that's …
Tardigrades Indestructible tardigrades thought to have lived through crash-landing on the Moonnewatlas.com - Nick Lavars An ambitious but ultimately doomed mission to land the first private spacecraft on the Moon may not be without entirely without scientific …
Supernovae Ancient white dwarf explosions seem to disobey long-established "rules"newatlas.com - Michael Irving White dwarf stars have mostly been thought to follow very specific "rules" – if they're over a certain mass limit, they'll explode in a supernova …
NASA More water ice could be hiding at the dark poles of Mercury and the Moonnewatlas.com - Michael Irving Earth's poles are famously icy places, but they're far from alone in that regard. The poles of other planets and moons are often the best places to …
Oxygen New NASA mission launch aims to reduce false-positives in search for lifenewatlas.com - Michael Irving It's almost a certainty that we're not alone in the universe, but so far direct evidence has eluded us. While we have some idea about what kinds of …
Hubble Hubble reveals egg-shaped exoplanet so hot it's venting vaporized iron into spacenewatlas.com - Michael Irving Between exoplanets with ruby clouds and those that are actually just giant diamonds, science fiction has barely prepared us for just how weird alien …
