Credit: CC0 Public Domain With multiple rovers landed and a mission set to return samples to Earth, Mars has dominated the search for life in the solar system for decades. But Venus has some fresh attention coming its way. In a new report published today, a team led by MIT researchers lays out the scientific … Read more
Coming off flawless back-to-back launches, the Virgin Orbit team has settled into a steady flight preparation rhythm with LauncherOne. The fully assembled rocket that will carry our next customers’ satellites to space left our rocket factory in Long Beach and headed up to the bare concrete pad at the Mojave Air and Space Port that … Read more
The view from the DC-8 research aircraft as flies through the marine boundary layer, the portion of the atmosphere close to the ocean’s surface where the ocean affects processes like cloud formation. Sam Hall Jetting through the sky in a NASA aircraft, scientists discovered that about one-third of fresh cloud seedlings that originate in the … Read more
Some rare exoplanet clouds were discovered using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. These new clouds are floating in the atmosphere of an exoplanet called WASP-127b. (Photo : Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)Picture released 04 October 2006 by the European Space Agency shows an artist’s impression of a unique type of exoplanet discovered with … Read more
Clouds are one of the biggest wildcards in predictions of how much and how fast the Arctic will continue to warm in the future. Depending on the time of the year and the changing environment in which they form and exist, clouds can both act to warm and cool the surface below them. For decades, … Read more
Review of The White Lotus, the six-episode HBO miniseries created by Mike White that is now available in full on the streaming platform. The White Lotus It is one of those series that seems to be explained as plate tectonics: colossi enter the scene that are going to collide until one is above the other, … Read more
An astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photo while orbiting over Thailand and Malaysia. This region of the world is not often photographed from space due to persistent clouds. While still cloudy, this view offers a rare peek at both coasts of the Malay Peninsula. This photo was taken near the end … Read more
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is the first spacecraft to successfully achieve controlled flight on another planet.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Ingenuity, NASA’s pint-sized Mars helicopter, has kicked up some surprising science on its flights over the red planet. When whizzing through the Martian air, its blades sometimes stir up a dust cloud that envelops and travels along with the … Read more