Saturn has a magnetic field very different from Earth’s magnetosphere, new research suggests. The ringed gas’s wonky magnetic shield may be caused by its rapid rotation (a day on Saturn lasts only 10.7 hours), and the effects of its moons, especially the sea ice moon Enceladus. The team that conducted this research reached these findings … Read more
Written by Manya Saini April 1 (Reuters) – The global IPO market has been in need of a win for years and Elon Musk’s SpaceX may be the breakthrough. The last company to hit the market with a valuation exceeding a billion dollars was Saudi Aramco in 2019. A trillion-dollar valuation, a CEO with a … Read more
In a calm environment, five autonomous robots are drilling into the moon, digging up loose rock and dust and leaving lines of parallel tracks. Stopping only to charge at a central solar power station, the car-sized machines process lunar debris internally to extract a form of helium so rare on Earth that the palm-sized container … Read more
Every job in deep space is fraught with danger. Hardware failure during launch, equipment malfunctioning far from Earth, or a small space rock hitting the vehicle are all scenarios that astronauts will train for. As humans embark on Artemis II, their first visit to the Moon in more than 50 years, one constant threat they … Read more
Unlike many children born and raised during the Moon’s arrival, Daniel Tani did not dream of becoming an astronomer. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING He was very interested in building things like radios and toothbrushes. However, in the end, his life choices and his career path led him to the place. He received an engineering degree, started working … Read more
A little more than an hour before sunset on Florida’s Space Coast, up to 400,000 beachgoers and boarders will look to the skies Wednesday to see a fiery wonder that hasn’t been seen in nearly 54 years: a complete NASA rocket returning to the moon. The launch of Artemis II, scheduled for 6.24pm ET if … Read more
The planet Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, and the most difficult for spacecraft to visit and explore. This is because as the spacecraft approaches Mercury, the Sun’s gravity pulls on the spacecraft, greatly increasing its speed and making it difficult to decelerate without a lot of fuel. But what if a spacecraft … Read more
The planet Venus is often called “Earth’s Twin” because of its similar size, but the truth could not be further from the truth. Unlike Earth, which is estimated to host billions of living creatures, Venus does not host life as we know it, at least not on it. This is because the surface of Venus … Read more
If anyone can offer advice to the four NASA astronauts scheduled to launch Wednesday on a mission to orbit the moon, it’s Harrison Schmitt. Subscribe to read this story without ads Get ad-free articles and exclusive content. Schmitt, 90, left his shoes on the lunar surface in 1972, as part of Apollo 17 – the … Read more
NASA’s X-ray spacecraft XRISM, which stands for X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, has observed how fast winds from a distant galaxy are exploding in the form of stars. These winds appear to travel at an incredible speed of 2 million miles per hour (3.21 million kilometers per hour). A very hot gas comes out of … Read more