Daily News update on – Science

Space.com

Thanks to the nearly 50 flights across the Jezero Crater landscape conducted by the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, much has been learned to help soup-up a future rotorcraft for the Red Planet, and there are plenty of add-ons that will be included in the next …

Spaceflight Now

The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE, spacecraft is buttoned up for launch inside the payload fairing of an Ariane 5 rocket. The illustration on the Ariane 5 payload fairing was the winning submission in a children’s art …

CNN

The European Space Agency is about to send a spacecraft to explore Jupiter and three of its largest and most intriguing moons. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, or Juice, is expected to launch Thursday at …

Astronomy Magazine

Humanity has long looked at the stars and dreamed of what kind of life might exist elsewhere in the universe. In their book Extraterrestrials: A Field Guide for Earthlings (Camden House, 1994), popular astronomy author Terence Dickinson and science …

Space.com

The photo shows the black hole, known as M87*, surrounded by a fuzzy ring of light, which is emitted by fast-moving gas and dust falling into its maw. That …

BBC News

The European Space Agency (Esa) is set to launch a satellite to the planet Jupiter, one of the organisation’s most ambitious missions ever. The satellite will leave Earth on Thursday on an eight-year journey to reach the giant planet’s major moons.

Spaceflight Now

The liftoff of Europe’s first mission to Jupiter aboard an Ariane 5 rocket was scrubbed Thursday in French Guiana due to a high risk of lightning at the launch site, delaying until Friday the start of the JUICE spacecraft’s voyager of exploration.

NPR

A rare fireball was spotted streaking across the northern Maine sky in broad daylight last week. Experts hoping to study the meteorite are now offering a financial reward to anyone who can recover a piece of it. NASA says this was the first …

Space.com

The “fuzzy orange donut” seen in the first image of a black hole ever taken has slimmed down to a thinner “skinny golden ring” with the aid of machine learning. The …

Scientific American

the contest is firmly in the former’s favor—10 to one, at last count. The question is one of profound importance: Are the galaxies the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is seeing in the early universe really as astonishingly remote as we think they are? So …