Orbital science, astronomy, remote sensing, and what lies beyond the atmosphere.
NASA’s Fermi mission has revealed a hidden relationship between two stellar wrecks in Gemini, where a faint supernova remnant appears to share a dramatic origin story with the famous Jellyfish Nebula. Using 16 years of gamma-ray data, researchers traced high-energy emission from the overlooked remnant and found evidence that both explosions may have come from…
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The European Space Agency has approved a broad new push for European space science, extending 13 missions and adopting Arrakihs as its next fast-class mission, according to an official announcement following a Science Programme Committee meeting in Tenerife on June 10 and 11, 2026. The decisions reach across the Solar System and beyond. They keep…
NASA’s Fly Foundational Robots mission is giving scientists a rare chance to test a hard-to-measure form of cosmic light in orbit. According to a NASA announcement, a prototype detector called AstroPix will fly on the agency’s upcoming robotic arm demonstration, which is expected to launch in late 2027. The small payload could help advance future…
Using the James Webb Space Telescope to probe one of the Solar System’s strangest moons, Caltech researchers have found that Neptune’s moon Nereid may be an original survivor from the planet’s early satellite system. The work, reported in Science Advances, points to a dramatic history in which Triton’s arrival reshaped Neptune’s family of moons. The…
