The third Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite, Sentinel-1C, launched aboard a Vega-C rocket, flight VV25, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 5 December 2024 at 22:20 CET (18:20 local time). Sentinel-1C extends…
ESA – Methane concentrations near Cheltenham
This sequence of images shows the methane concentrations near Cheltenham, England, from 27 March, 20 April…
Hubble Gets its Best Look At the First Quasar
The term quasar comes from quasi-stellar objects, a name that reflected our uncertainty about their nature.…
Mary W. Jackson Portrait Revealed
A portrait of Mary W. Jackson is seen after it was unveiled, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024,…
Rare double lunar impact flashes captured hours apart on the same night
Two lunar impacts were recorded by Japanese astronomer and curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum Daichi…
Hubble celebrates a decade of tracking the outer planets
From 2014 to 2024, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been studying the outer planets under…
Station Science Top News: Dec. 6, 2024
Astronaut cognitive performance remains generally stable Researchers found that astronauts on six-month missions to the International…
Mercury during BepiColombo’s fifth flyby
This image of Mercury was captured by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 1 December 2024, as…
Do We Really Know What Becomes a Type Ia Supernova?
Lots of things out in the Universe can cause a supernova, from the gravitational collapse of…
The year in pictures | The Planetary Society
This year, space was brought down to Earth. Our planet had front-row seats to dazzling cosmic…