Jupiter’s moon Europa may have pockets of water in its icy shell that could support life, study finds Researchers studied images of features on the surface of Jupiter’s frozen moon They predict these pockets contain liquid water and saline to slow their freezing The team say these liquid pockets are about a mile beneath the … Read more
Japanese fashion billionaire pays up to $40 MILLION for ticket to the International Space Station in December Yusaku Maezawa has purchased a flight to the International Space Station He is a Japanese billionaire who has made his wealthy in the fashion industry Maezawa is set to launch aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in December He is … Read more
China is set to land its Zhurong rover, currently strapped to the Tianwen-1 orbiter, on Mars ‘in the next five days ‘as part of the country’s first interplanetary mission, Beijing’s space agency said Friday. Zhurong, named after an ancient god of fire, is tucked in the belly of China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft that entered parking orbit around Mars in … Read more
China is set to land its Zhurong rover, currently strapped to the Tianwen-1 orbiter, on Mars tonight as part of the country’s first interplanetary mission. Officials revealed Thursday that the capsule will embark on its ‘seven minutes of terror’ around 19:11 ET (00:11 BST), enduring the same tumultuous conditions NASA‘s Perseverance rover went through to land … Read more
China is set to land its Zhurong rover on Mars Friday for its first interplanetary mission that will make it the third country to touchdown on the Red Planet. Officials revealed Thursday that the capsule will embark on its ‘seven minutes of terror’ around 7:11pm ET, which is the same tumultuous conditions endured by NASA‘s … Read more
Infrared images of the gas giant Jupiter show the massive planet’s churning atmosphere like never before – beyond what we can see with the human eye. Hawaii‘s Gemini North observatory and the NASA Hubble space telescope captured the largest planet in the solar system in a range of light wavelengths. The images show the planet at … Read more
NASA‘s Perseverance rover has switched from photographing the Ingenuity helicopter’s test flights, to searching for signs of long gone Martian life. The US space agency confirmed that the SUV-sized rover has started to test the ancient lakebed in the Jezero crater by focusing its science instruments on rocks. A camera called WATSON on the end … Read more
NASA has unfolded the giant mirror of its James Webb Space Telescope ‘like a piece of origami artwork’ one last time ahead of its launch to space in October. The orbiting observatory has been designed as a successor to the highly successful Hubble space telescope and can see from the near ultraviolet to the near … Read more
NASA is eyeing the 2030s to put the first human boots on Mars, but a scientist suggests the American space agency may have already sent forms of life aboard its Perseverance rover to the Red Planet. Christopher Mason, a geneticist at Weill Cornell Medicine, suggests that although NASA takes extreme measures to clean spacecraft and … Read more
The Kepler mission has spotted thousands of exoplanets since 2014, with 30 planets less than twice the size of Earth now known to orbit within the habitable zones of their stars. Launched from Cape Canaveral on March 7th 2009, the Kepler telescope has helped in the search for planets outside of the solar system. It … Read more