Broken Cable Damages Arecibo Observatory
On Monday, a three-inch auxiliary cable at Arecibo Observatory snapped, whipping through the dish panels and causing a 100-foot gash.
SpaceX closes out busy week with launch of more Starlink satellites
SpaceX launched the ninth batch of version 1.0 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on August 7 at 5:12 am UTC using a five-time flight-proven first stage.
Earth observation and research satellites ride Chinese rocket into orbit
On August 6 at 4:00 am UTC China launched a Long March 2D from Jiuquan Satellite Center. Onboard were two satellites: Gaofen-9 04 and Tsinghua Science Satellite.
Dawn XM2 at Occator crater
Today’s space headlines are all shouting a single name: Ceres. This week the journal Nature Astronomy has dedicated an entire issue to trying to explain this world.
Prepare for the Perseids
We’d like to remind you that it is time to get out and see the Perseids. This particular meteor shower is one of the highlights of summer for many.
Stellar Egg Hunt with ALMA — Tracing Evolution from Embryo to Baby Star
In another case of more data makes for better understanding, astronomers have pointed the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array’s (ALMA) inner cluster of 7-meter dishes at the Taurus Molecular Cloud and gone searching for points of future star formation.
Hubble Uses Earth as Proxy for Identifying Oxygen on Exoplanets
During the January 2019 lunar eclipse, astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at the Moon.
Arecibo Observatory Returns from Tropical Storm Isaias Lockdown to Track Asteroid for NASA
In early July, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, discovered a potentially hazardous asteroid, 2020 NK1.
NASA’s InSight Lander Used for Deep Mars Measurements
New results, published in Geophysical Research Letters, find that Mars has three subsurface boundaries – places where the density of the planet shifts.
Decades-Long Deep Giant Cloud Disruption Discovered on Venus
Today in the Geophysical Research Letters, a new paper announces the discovery of undulating structures in Venus’ clouds that last for decades at a time.
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