Engineers at OHB, Germany, inspect Plato’s newly installed 24 cameras on the spacecraft’s optical bench, the structure that keeps all cameras firmly pointed in the right direction. — ESA Larger
Engineers at OHB, Germany, inspect Plato’s newly installed 24 cameras on the spacecraft’s optical bench, the structure that keeps all cameras firmly pointed in the right direction. — ESA Larger
The robotic arm on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its percussive drill to core and collect the “Main River” rock sample on March 10, 2025, the 1,441st Martian day, or
Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic Mountains,
Photo courtesy of Andrew Wozniak, University of Delaware; HOV Alvin Team; Funder: NSF. © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Scientists diving in the human-occupied vehicle Alvin recently witnessed a rare but
Planet-planet Binary – Grok via Astrobiology.com Significant numbers of free-floating planetary-mass objects have been discovered in nearby star-forming regions by the James Webb Space Telescope, including a substantial number (42)
Giant impacts are highly complex events with different processes dominating the dynamics of different regions of the colliding bodies. Illustrative time snapshots from an example SPH giant impact simulation with
Figure showing the contribution of different gases to the best-fit spectrum obtained from the free chemistry retrieval binned down to R∼200, for STIS+WFC3+NIRCam observations. — astro-ph.EP HD 209458 b is
Simulated behaviour of L 98-59 b calculated with a semi-analytic toy model for its thermal evolution. Temperature is plotted over time for different initial temperatures 𝑇0 (line style) and tidal
Example of a bipolar outflow in IRAS 15557-5215 region. The top panels show the moment-0 map (left) and moment-1 map (right) of HC3N line. The outflow axis is represented by
Ganymede and Callisto As Seen By Voyager — NASA Analysis of Callisto’s moments of inertia, derived from Galileo’s gravity data, suggests that its structure is not fully differentiated. This possibly