This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from
The Sun blew out a coronal mass ejection along with part of a solar filament over a three-hour period on Feb. 24, 2015. Because this occurred way over near the
Perseverance Rover in Action Example 360° mosaics. Mastcam-Z enhanced color RGB 360° panorama from the Perseverance rover. (A) OEB landing site, 34-mm focal length, sol 3. (B) Van Zyl Overlook,
SpaceX will launch its 100th mission of the year today (Aug. 10), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet
Fiction, by its very definition, isn’t real. A character can have an entire lifetime of backstory, the politics and geography of their made-up homeworld a matter of record, but none
Almost a year ago, the space science community watched as an asteroid entered Earth’s orbit and circled above our heads for almost two months before departing. Scientists usually track such
The Drag Prediction Workshop series is an extensive international effort to improve transonic aerodynamic predictions. This long-running collaborative effort seeks to mobilize the international aerospace community to improve the computational
Crew 11 during training before launch last August (left to right): Cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Crew 11 commander Zena Cardman and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui. Image: NASA
Artist’s rendition of the space weather around M dwarf TIC 141146667. The torus of ionized gas is sculpted by the star’s magnetic field and rotation, with two pinched, dense clumps
The recent discovery of the third known interstellar object (ISO), 3I/ATLAS, has brought about another round of debate on whether these objects could potentially be technological in origin. Everything from






