Daily News update on – Science

Space.com

The Solar Orbit watched Mercury as it crossed the face of its usual observing target, the sun. The transit of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun on Jan 3, 2023, offered the European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft an opportunity to sharpen its view …

The Planetary Society

Io is the innermost and third-largest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Io is covered in hundreds of volcanoes. It is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System. Io can help us understand volcanism and tidal heating throughout the Solar …

Space.com

NASA managed to image an asteroid larger than the Empire State Building and with similar proportions as it hurtled past Earth at the beginning of February, 2023. The asteroid, designated 2011 AG5, passed safely past our planet at a distance of around …

Space.com

Japan’s cubesat EQUULEUS, which hitched a ride to the moon aboard NASA’s Artemis 1 mission in November last year, took a video of Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) earlier this month, about two weeks after the ice ball’s closest approach to Earth.

Space.com

Russia has wrapped up its investigation of two leaky spacecraft and will launch its next Soyuz spacecraft in February after all. Russia will now launch the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday (Feb.

Space.com

The moon will visit Venus, the second planet from the sun, first, and then will move close to the solar system’s largest planet, the gas giant Jupiter, shortly after this. For …

CNN

The Red Stone region in Chile’s Atacama Desert is similar to an ancient lake site and river delta on Mars. Armando Azua-Bustos. Sign up for …

The Washington Post

The Atacama Desert is just about the driest place on Earth. In spots, it looks a lot like Mars. But it’s not lifeless, even in the hyper-arid regions. Using state-of-the-art equipment to probe the desert rocks, researchers found bits of DNA from an …

Phys.Org

In the past, we have only ever observed these radio shockwaves directly from collisions between galaxy clusters. However, we believe they exist around small groups of galaxies, as well as in cosmic filaments. There …

Phys.Org

This undated handout photo released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation shows A Russian spacecraft is docked at the International Space Station (ISS). The Russian space corporation Roscosmos said Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023 that Russia will extend its …