The ongoing effort to under Martian geology and the planet’s history continues. A recent paper from a scientific team in China looks at the data collected by Zhurong, a rover that has been in place on the Red Planet since 2021. While it didn’t find any evidence of water in the basin it was looking in, it did find some interesting buried features and provided more data to our mounting understanding of one of our nearest neighbors.
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Do Diamonds Rain on the Ice Giants?
New research shows diamonds might condense out of Neptune's mantle, but not Uranus', explaining a decades-old discrepancy.
Full moon worms its way into stunning photos from around the world
March's full moon looks stunning in these photographs from around the world. The Worm Moon is the last winter full moon for skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere.
The Mandalorian season 3 episode 2 review: Diving headfirst into Manda-lore
The second chapter of The Mandalorian season 3 wastes no time and moves the main plot forward without losing sight of the show’s signature episodic format.
Navigation Lab exploring Galileo’s future – and beyond
Would you like to know the future of satellite navigation? Try ESA’s Navigation Laboratory. This is a site where navigation engineers test prototypes of tomorrow's user receivers, using simulated versions of the navigation signals planned for the coming decade, such as set to be transmitted from Galileo’s Second Generation satellites.
Two launches for OneWeb this month will enable network’s global coverage
A stack of 36 OneWeb satellites awaiting launch later this month on an Indian GSLV Mk.3 rocket. Credit: OneWeb
OneWeb is in the home stretch of a four-year launch campaign with two more missions — scheduled this week with SpaceX and later this month with NewSpace India Limited — set to give the company enough satellites to provide global internet coverage.
James Webb Space Telescope spots galaxy from early universe rich in star formation
New images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed that a galaxy from the early universe has a previously overshadowed companion that is abundant with star formation.
HOLD FOR WEDS AM: Watch Relativity Space launch Terran 1, world's 1st 3D-printed rocket, on debut flight today
Relativity Space's Terran 1 rocket, the world's first 3D-printed launcher, will fly for the first time today (March 8), and you can watch the action live.
2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: a Bright Comet for the End of 2024?
New Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS may put on a show at the end of next year.
Italian airline signs up for space-enabled flights
Passengers flying on Italy’s national carrier ITA Airways will experience fewer flight delays and greener travel thanks to pilots being able to use satellites to route their planes.
Relativity Space ready to launch first 3D-printed, methane-fueled orbital rocket
Relativity Space’s 110-foot-tall (33.5-meter) Terran 1 rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Relativity Space / Trevor Mahlmann
Relativity Space, a California-based startup that counts billionaire Mark Cuban as one of its early investors, will try to launch the first 3D-printed, methane-fueled rocket into orbit from Cape Canaveral Wednesday.
Launch day timeline for Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket
Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket on Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Relativity Space / Trevor Mahlmann
Relativity Space’s 10-story-tall Terran 1 rocket will encounter the most extreme aerodynamic forces of its eight-minute test flight around 80 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. That’s a key moment when the company’s engineers hope to confirm the 3D-printed rocket can withstand the rigors of launch.
Rare black hole 1 billion times the mass of the sun could upend our understanding of galaxy formation
A rare supermassive black hole found hiding at the dawn of the universe could indicate that there were thousands more of the ravenous monsters stalking the early cosmos.
NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft aced moon mission despite heat shield issue
NASA's Orion spacecraft performed better than expected on its first deep-space flight despite experiencing unpredicted loss of its heat shield material.
Russians will fly on SpaceX's Crew-7, Crew-8 astronaut missions: report
NASA and Roscosmos plan to fly two more Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX missions this year and in 2024.
The big reveal: What's ahead in returning samples from Mars?
The Mars Sample Return mission is an ambitious endeavor that could see Martian geological specimens returned to Earth to search for signs of life on the Red Planet.
A Tadpole-Shaped Cloud of Gas is Whirling Around a Black Hole
In the 1930s, astrophysicists theorized that at the end of their life cycle, particularly massive stars would collapse, leaving behind remnants of infinite mass and density. As a proposed resolution to Einstein’s field equations (for his Theory of General Relativity), these objects came to be known as “black holes” because nothing (even light) could escape them. By the 1960s, astronomers began to infer the existence of these objects based on the observable effects they have on neighboring objects and their surrounding environment.
The Neutron Star That Thinks It’s a Black Hole
Black holes and neutron stars are among the odder denizens of the cosmic zoo. They’re both dense collections of matter and, except for supermassive black holes, are the end states of massive stars. Fundamentally, they’re two different types of objects that are detectable via the activity in the accretion disks that form around them. Astronomers recently observed an object that acted like a black hole but turned out to be a neutron star. The clues lay in the accretion disk surrounding it.
Carina Nebula twinkles in gorgeous new view from Hubble (photo)
Twinkling stars blanket this new view of the Carina Nebula, a vast cloud of dust and gas that lies 7,500 light-years from Earth.
UAE's 1st long-duration astronaut sets sights on moon and Mars
Sultan Al Neyadi blasted off March 2 as part of the SpaceX Crew-6 mission, and says his International Space Station mission will get the UAE ready for the moon and Mars.
