Skyfall is happening, and it will get to Mars in a totally new way. Last summer, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Virginia company AeroVironment unveiled their Skyfall mission concept,
Illustration of an exocomet transit. — astro-ph.EP Active small bodies in extrasolar systems, the extrasolar analogues of Solar System comets, provide insights into the orbital evolution and physical processes shaping
Input spectra generated with PSG from simulations of modern Earth. The spectra were generated at nine times of day, showing different surface features as the planet rotates (Kofman et al.
Artistic scheme of the VLA 4A/4B binary system, not in scale. Methanol and water absorption features originate from gas located in front of the dust photosphere at 26 µm, which
The left panel shows the relative astrometric orbit of 70 Oph B around 70 Oph A. Red points denote archival visual and micrometric measurements from the WDS/ORB6 catalog, while the
First glimpse of comet 3I/ATLAS from Juice science camera – ESA larger image No matter how much planning goes into space missions, one must always expect the unexpected. But luck
WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency is slowing the pace of launches for the Pentagon’s low Earth orbit satellite constellation, stepping back from an earlier plan for frequent deployments as
WASHINGTON — NASA is halting plans to develop the lunar Gateway and instead focusing on the development of a lunar base. During an event at NASA Headquarters March 24, agency
The moon may soon get a high-tech seismic sensing system — and it could be as simple as rolling out cables across the lunar surface. Two recent studies suggest that
NASA chief Jared Isaacman says NASA will build a $20 billion base on the moon, repurposing components that were originally intended for the Lunar Gateway space station that was to orbit
