Category: 2. Space

Priors for the population of IMBH binaries

It is more realistic to consider all relevant parameters for GWs from IMBH binaries, including orbital eccentricity and spin precession. However, recent studies^43,44 have found that these two factors have…

The Yarkovsky effect is a thermal radiation force that gradually alters an asteroid’s orbit. This effect depends on several factors, including the asteroid’s size, orbital parameters, rotation state, and surface thermal properties². The force…

Intracluster light is a diffuse glow of stars stripped from galaxies during a galaxy cluster’s formation.

TAMPA, Fla. — Strong government demand helped send Eutelsat’s low Earth orbit (LEO) revenues soaring 84% over the past 12 months, although the French operator expects its legacy geostationary business to continue weighing on profits…

Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer and Rover Planner at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 1, 2025.

Now that we have reached August, our “landiversary” (anniversary of landing…

NASA has selected six companies to produce studies focused on lower-cost ways to launch and deliver spacecraft of various sizes and forms to multiple, difficult-to-reach orbits.

The firm-fixed-price awards comprise nine studies with a maximum…

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission with agency astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov is preparing to return to Earth in early August after…

On July 16, 2025, more than 400 public library staff from across the United States joined a powerful webinar, Serving Neurodiverse Library Patrons and Colleagues, hosted by two NASA Science Activation program teams: NASA@ My Library and