NASA's Psyche asteroid mission is targeting an October 2023 launch, after a one-year delay due to software issues.
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Iceberg larger than London breaks off Brunt
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An iceberg around the size of Greater London broke off Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf due to a natural process called ‘calving’. The iceberg, measuring 1550 sq km, detached from the 150 m-thick ice shelf a decade after scientists first spotted massive cracks in the shelf.
See the moon eclipse Mars on Jan. 30 in free telescope webcast
The moon will eclipse Mars on Monday (Jan. 30), and you can watch the event from the comfort of your own home thanks to a livestream from the Griffith Observatory.
'Juno: New Origins' indie game lets you launch rockets and build planets
The gaming sandbox includes rockets, airplanes, cars and anything else that you want to subject to realistic physics.
James Webb Space Telescope discovers water ice at ringed asteroid Chariklo 'by remarkable luck'
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers observe a stellar occultation and discover the first clear evidence for water ice in the Chariklo system.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, January 27 – February 5
Comet ZTF is at its best this week — but every night moonlight encroaches on the scene until a later and later hour. Along the way, the Moon occults Mars for the southern U.S. and again forms isosceles triangles with naked-eyestars.
ESA branded merchandise made easy
We’ve just made it easier to use the ESA brand to create merchandise or materials for events. If you are interested in producing and selling merchandising that shows the ESA logo, the ESA flags patch or ESA’s mission patches, there is now a simple way to request the use of ESA emblems.
Tempestuous young stars in Orion
Image: Tempestuous young stars in Orion
Webb NIRISS Instrument has Gone Offline
The JWST is having a problem. One of its instruments, the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS,) has gone offline. The NIRISS performs spectroscopy on exoplanet atmospheres, among other things.
NASA funds nuclear probes for icy moons, huge new space telescopes and other far-out tech ideas
NASA has funded a new set of visionary concepts for space exploration that could one day prove useful — and perhaps even transformative.
Lucy Adds Another Asteroid to its Flyby List
In October 2021, NASA launched its ambitious Lucy mission. Its targets are asteroids, two in the main belt and eight Jupiter trojans, which orbit the Sun in the same path as Jupiter. The mission is named after early hominin fossils (Australopithecus afarensis,) and the name pays homage to the idea that asteroids are fossils from the Solar System’s early days of planet formation.
NASA's Lucy asteroid mission adds 10th space rock target
NASA's Jupiter Trojan asteroid-scouting mission has been given an additional space rock to visit, bringing the journey's total to 10 asteroids.
Blue Origin plans to fly all-female crew to suborbital space: report
Blue Origin plans to fly an all-female crew — led by Lauren Sanchez, the girlfriend of company founder Jeff Bezos — to suborbital space in the next year or so.
China working on new moon rover for 2026 mission to lunar south pole
China is working on a new lunar rover that will begin to explore the south pole of the moon around 2026.
Dark matter particle that may finally shed light on cosmic mystery the 'best of both worlds,' scientists say
A new model for dark matter suggests an early universe phase transition and candidate particles known as HYPERs could finally shed light on this mysterious matter.
NASA 'Day of Remembrance' marks 20 years since space shuttle Columbia tragedy
Twenty years ago, seven astronauts were returning home when they were lost on space shuttle Columbia. Like 19 others, the STS-107 crew made the ultimate sacrifice in the pursuit of space exploration.
Astronomers Pin Down the Age of the Most Distant Galaxy: Seen 367 Million Years After the Big Bang
Staring off into the ancient past with a $10 billion space telescope, hoping to find extraordinarily faint signals from the earliest galaxies, might seem like a forlorn task. But it’s only forlorn if we don’t find any. Now that the James Webb Space Telescope has found those signals, the exercise has moved from forlorn to hopeful.
SpaceX destacks Starship to prep for epic 33-engine test fire (photos)
SpaceX destacked its Starship Mars rocket on Wednesday (Jan. 25) to continue gearing up for the giant vehicle's first-ever orbital test flight.
SpaceX Starlink launch spawns gorgeous dawn clouds in Florida sky
Noctilucent clouds hovered over parts of Florida's Space Coast after SpaceX rocketed 56 Starlink satellites to orbit early Thursday morning (Jan. 26).
Perseverance Takes a Selfie to Show off Some of its Samples
One of the main jobs for the Perseverance Mars rover past few weeks has been collecting carefully selected samples of Mars rock and soil. These samples have been placed and sealed in special sample tubes and left in well-identified places so that a future sample return mission can collect them and bring the Martian samples back to Earth.
Car-sized asteroid will pass extremely close to Earth tonight
The space rock, called 2023 BU, was discovered less than a week ago.
