View larger. | Artist’s concept of a collision between 2 rocky bodies in the early solar system. A new study suggests that such a collision created Mercury, although with more
View larger. | Artist’s concept of a collision between 2 rocky bodies in the early solar system. A new study suggests that such a collision created Mercury, although with more
NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory–Caltech/Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)/Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS); Image processing: Emma Wälimäki © CC BY During its close flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io on December 30, 2023, NASA’s
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Skywatchers in parts of the northern U.S. may be treated to another display of northern lights tonight (Oct. 1) as geomagnetic storm conditions continue to buffet Earth’s magnetic field. NOAA’s
SYDNEY — Despite its first orbital launch attempt lasting only a few seconds, Gilmour Space Technologies is satisfied with the attempt and moving ahead to return to the launch pad
China’s Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples. Tianwen 2 launched from Xichang on a Long March
View larger. | Artist’s illustration of a group of asteroids near Venus. ‘Invisible’ asteroids – ones very difficult to detect with today’s telescopes – that share the same orbit as
Artist’s concept of how rocky, potentially habitable worlds elsewhere in our galaxy might appear. Data gathered by telescopes in space and on the ground suggest that small, rocky planets are
a Mars Orbital LASER Altimeter (MOLA) map of equatorial Mars with black boxes indicating locations of the Juventae Plateau and Aram Chaos (red indicates higher elevations and blue lower elevations).
We now know which people will fly on Blue Origin’s next space tourism mission — most of them, anyway. On Wednesday (Oct. 1), Blue Origin, which was founded by Amazon’s




