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
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,
6 min read Let’s Bake a Cosmic Cake! To celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman — NASA’s first chief astronomer and the namesake for
This will be no ordinary space junk fall. The Soviet Union’s failed Kosmos 482 spacecraft will crash to Earth in the coming days after more than 50 years in orbit.
A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding a black hole and releasing powerful bursts
June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is considered by many to be the birthplace of modern astronomy.
TAMPA, Fla. — New Mexico-based mPower Technology said May 8 it has raised about $21 million in a Series B funding round to mass-produce its silicon-based solar power modules. Six
Contributions of molecules in the JWST MIRI range for the transmission spectrum of K2-18 b, assuming 1% CO2 and CH4, and 10−5 by volume for each of DMS, diethyl sulfide,
It’ll be a late lunch for SpaceX mission operators at Cape Canaveral due to the mid-day launch of another stack of Starlink satellites. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the
Disk reflectance spectra at different stellocentric distances. a, The disk reflectance spectra at 80- 90 au (region 1, yellow), 90-105 au (region 2, orange), and 105-120 au (region 3, cyan),