RainCube, due to fly in 2017, forced JPL's engineers to get creative in order to squeeze an antenna into a CubeSat. Credit: Tyvak/Jonathan Sauder/NASA/JPL-Caltech
Black magic.
That's what radiofrequency engineers call the mysterious forces guiding communications over the air. These forces...
Mars as viewed by the Visual Monitoring Camera on Mars Express. Credit: ESA/D. O'Donnell - CC BY-SA IGO
Scattered pockets of magnetism across the surface of Mars have a significant influence on the planet's upper atmosphere, according to observations from...
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; acknowledgement: J. Schmidt (geckzilla.com)
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope had imaged NGC 6818 before, but it took another look at this planetary nebula, with a new mix of colour filters, to display it in all its...
NGC 299 is an open star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud just under 200,000 light-years away. Open clusters such as this are collections of stars weakly bound by the shackles of gravity, all of which formed from...
Photons are emitted from a galaxy QSO B0218+357 in the direction of the Earth. Due to the gravitational effect of the intervening galaxy B0218+357G photons form two paths that reach Earth with a delay of about 11 days. Photons...
Dazzling eyelid-like features bursting with stars in galaxy IC 2163 formed from a tsunami of stars and gas triggered by a glancing collision with galaxy NGC 2207 (a portion of its spiral arm is shown on right side of...
Image Credit: Flickr/costachico
We’re about to see the biggest since 1948, the closest full moon in the 21st century.
If you go outside on November 14, you might notice the moon is looking bigger and brighter than usual. Bigger in fact, than...
Artist concept of a binary system similar to the one that originated the nova Sagittarii 2015 N.2. Credit: David A. Hardy y PPARC.
Large amounts of beryllium-7, an element that decays into lithium, have been found inside nova Sagittarii 2015...
The dark, golf-ball-size object in this composite, colorized view from the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is a nickel-iron meteorite, as confirmed by analysis using laser pulses from ChemCam on Oct. 30, 2016.Credits: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/LPGNantes/CNRS/IAS/MSSS
Laser-zapping of a...
Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
The primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope consisting of 18 hexagonal mirrors looks like a giant puzzle piece standing in the massive clean room of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Appropriately,...
Engineers conduct a white light inspection on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn
Engineers and technicians working on the James Webb Space Telescope successfully completed the first...
