Roscosmos returns astronauts to earth from ISS amid quarantine conditions
Сарматы» на Земле (Roscosmos, in Russian) Soyuz with crew of three lands safely in Kazakhstan (SpaceFlightNow) On April 17th at 5:16 AM UTC, Jessica Meir, Oleg Skripochka, and Andrew Morgan landed near Jezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Andrew Morgan being extracted from...
Data collected by MESSENGER above Venus’ surface, demonstrates the planet’s atmosphere isn’t uniformly mixed.
Nitrogen concentration through Venus’ atmosphere. New analysis of MESSENGER data shows an uptick in nitrogen concentration around Venus’ upper cloud deck roughly 30 miles (50 kilometers) up, upending a long-held idea that nitrogen is distributed equally throughout....
New research may help solve the question of whether our atmosphere was formed by gases naturally emitted by the Earth’s interior or was added later
The Yellowstone Caldera was one of the sites from which scientists collected samples. CREDIT: Peter Barry/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute UCLA-led study may explain the source of nitrogen in Earth’s atmosphere (UCLA) The way so many elements like to go to gas when...
Hubble Observes Aftermath of Massive Collision
Hubble imaged a vast ring of icy debris encircling the star Fomalhaut. Shown on the right are computer simulations of the expanding and fading cloud. The cloud of very fine dust particles is estimated to stretch more than 200 million miles across. CREDIT: NASA, ESA,...
The California Nebula is the final mosaic image taken by Spitzer
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope took this image of the California Nebula on Jan. 25, 2020, five days before the spacecraft was decommissioned. The red and blue bands on either side of the image represent two different wavelengths of light; the gray area shows both...
Studies of a comet from beyond our Solar System have yielded insights into how other star systems may have formed
Comet 2I/Borisov. CREDIT: NASA, ESA, K. Meech (University of Hawaii), D. Jewitt (UCLA) Hubble Observations Show Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Rich In Carbon Monoxide (Planetary Science Institute) Objects colliding a breaking apart is apparently the way of things...
Impact cratering both produces new regolith and causes seismic events that can degrade and erase small craters on the surface of asteroids
A shaded-relief map of a surface cratering simulation of near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros, color-coded according to surface elevation (blue = -125 meters, pink = +125 meters). The surface is shown after 400 million years of exposure to the Main Asteroid Belt, where...
May 27th mission will launch astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken (left) and Doug Hurley rehearse their Demo-2 test flight on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceflight ahead of a May 27, 2020 launch to the International Space Station. CREDIT: NASA SpaceX, NASA target May 27 for 1st Crew Dragon test flight with...
An international team lead by researchers of the University of Geneva has discovered a six-planets system
In the planetary system HD 158259, all pairs of subsequent planets are close to the 3:2 resonance : the inner one completes about three orbits as the outer completes two. CREDIT: UNIGE/NASA Astronomy: six planets (almost) in rhythm (U of Geneva) In every...
Cheops, ESA’s new exoplanet mission, has many exciting discoveries to come
An image of the star known as HD 88111, taken by ESA's Cheops exoplanet watcher during its in-orbit commissioning in early 2020. CREDIT: ESA/Airbus/CHEOPS Mission Consortium Cheops observes its first exoplanets and is ready for science (ESA)CHEOPS space telescope...
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