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Mapping vertical land motion across the New York City area, researchers found the land sinking (indicated in blue) by about 0.06 inches (1.6 millimeters) per year on average. They also detected modest uplift (shown in red) in Queens and Brooklyn. White dotted lines indicate county/borough borders. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Rutgers University.

Geology

Satellite data shows New York City is sinking — and it’s not just because of the skyscrapers

October 9, 2023 - Updated on October 11, 2023

Future

New AI can make ‘zoom and enhance’ satellite imagery, making it sharper and more useful

September 4, 2023

Environment

NASA reveals first pollution maps from its new space instrument

August 29, 2023

Astronomy

James Webb Telescope spots a rare sight on an extraterrestrial body: clouds

December 5, 2022

Environment

Satellite data shows climate change pushing the entire boreal biome towards the north

April 11, 2022 - Updated on May 4, 2022

Environment

Radar satellites could show areas where sinkholes are forming, predicting the collapse before it happens

News

The devastation of Mariupol in Ukraine is visible on satellite data

March 17, 2022 - Updated on March 18, 2022

Archaeology

Archaeologists uncover hidden citadel in ancient Maya city

October 4, 2021

Remote sensing

A neural network has learned to identify tree species from satellite

September 28, 2021

Climate

Satellite images show the massive extent of August’s wildfires

August 23, 2021

News

Martian buried lakes may actually just be clay

Remote sensing

Ingenuity helicopter makes its first one-way flight on Mars

This image shows an artist’s impression of what the surface of the 2I/Borisov comet might look like. 2I/Borisov was a visitor from another planetary system that passed by our Sun in 2019, allowing astronomers a unique view of an interstellar comet. While telescopes on Earth and in space captured images of this comet, we don’t have any close-up observations of 2I/Borisov. It is therefore up to artists to create their own ideas of what the comet’s surface might look like, based on the scientific information we have about it. (SO/M. Kormesser)

Astronomy

Interstellar visitor 2I/Borisov is the most pristine comet ever observed

This image shows an artist’s impression of winds in Jupiter’s stratosphere near the planet’s south pole, with the blue lines representing wind speeds. These lines are superimposed on a real image of Jupiter, taken by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Jupiter’s famous bands of clouds are located in the lower atmosphere, where winds have previously been measured. But tracking winds right above this atmospheric layer, in the stratosphere, is much harder since no clouds exist there. By analysing the aftermath of a comet collision from the 1990s and using the ALMA telescope, in which ESO is a partner, researchers have been able to reveal incredibly powerful stratospheric winds, with speeds of up to 1450 kilometres an hour, near Jupiter’s poles.

Astronomy

Jupiter’s Supersonic Stratospheric Winds Make it a Unique Beast

Original images ESO/Y. Beletsky/ ESO/M. Kornmesser. adjusted by Robert Lea

Astronomy

Astronomers witness the ‘death’ of a galaxy

January 11, 2021

Baby universes branching off of our universe shortly after the Big Bang appear to us as black holes. (Kavli IPMU)

Astronomy

Primordial black holes could hide a multiverse of possibilities

January 6, 2021

Astronomy

Water Found on the Moon’s Sunlit Surface

October 26, 2020

It's getting crowded up there. A plot of space debris around the Earth. (NASA)

Astronomy

Scientists spot space debris in daylight, helping satellites ‘social distance’

September 1, 2020

Biology

How satellite data can help us save struggling forests

October 7, 2019

Leaf.

Alien life

Earth’s green history may help scientists spot plant life on alien planets

September 25, 2018

This photo shows the view from asteroid Ryugu from the Minerva-II1A. The probe is one of two that landed on Ryugu from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 spacecraft. It's the first time two mobile rovers landed on an asteroid. The image is blurred because it was taken during the rover's descent. Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

Remote sensing

History in the making: Japan lands two rovers on asteroid

September 24, 2018

Florence wide lens 2.

AstroPicture

Astronaut tweets incredible pictures of Hurricane Florence heading for the US East Coast

September 13, 2018

Credit: Breakthrough Listen image.

News

SETI project uses AI to track down mysterious light source

September 11, 2018

Jupiter magnetic field.

Astrophysics

Jupiter’s magnetic field is extremely bizarre, potentially due to unknown processes in its core

September 6, 2018

The image shows the distribution of surface ice at the Moon's south pole (left) and north pole (right), detected by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument. Blue represents the ice locations, plotted over an image of the lunar surface, where the gray scale corresponds to surface temperature (darker representing colder areas and lighter shades indicating warmer zones). The ice is concentrated at the darkest and coldest locations, in the shadows of craters. This is the first time scientists have directly observ.ed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface. Credits: NASA

Astronomy

NASA finds ice on the Moon — raising prospects of a lunar colony

August 21, 2018

Illustration of the Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA.

News

NASA will soon launch a probe that will travel through the sun’s atmosphere — here’s what you need to know

Young Stephen Hawking. Source: The New Yorker.

Alien life

Why Stephen Hawking Was Afraid of Aliens

LS1 is the the farthest individual star scientists have ever witnessed. Right panels: region of the sky from 2011 when LS1 wasn't visible and the same patch in 2016 when gravitational lensing enabled observation. Credit: P. Kelly, University of Minnesota/NASA/ESA.

News

Astronomers find the most distant star ever, looking through a galactic magnifying glass

This model reproduces key features of melting snowflakes that have been observed in nature: first, meltwater gathers in any concave regions of the snowflake's surface. These liquid-water regions merge as they grow and eventually form a shell of liquid around an ice core, finally developing into a water drop. Credit: NASA.

News

NASA creates stunning visualization of melting snowflake

March 29, 2018 - Updated on March 30, 2018

Planet.

Astronomy

Hunt for planets through Kepler’s data with this newly released Google code

Jupiter's winds are tightly connected to the planet's gravitational and magnetic fields. Image credits: NASA / ESA / UC Berkeley.

News

New NASA data reveals many of Jupiter’s hidden secrets

After the satellite, researchers used drones to count the penguins. Image credits: T. S. McChord / H. Singh /NU / WHOI.

Animals

Large, previously unknown penguin colony discovered through satellite

Universal Simulation

Chemistry

Three Old Scientific Concepts Getting a Modern Look

February 20, 2018

Jodrell Bank.

News

Jodrell Bank, Earth’s oldest radio telescope, nominated as UNESCO Site

January 31, 2018

Artist's concept of a top-down view of the K2-138 system discovered by citizen scientists, showing the orbits and relative sizes of the five known planets. Orbital periods of the five planets, shown to scale, fall close to a series of 3:2 mean motion resonances. This indicates that the planets orbiting K2-138, which likely formed much farther away from the star, migrated inward slowly and smoothly. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Astronomy

Crowdsourcing astronomy: Citizen scientists discover new rocky planets locked in resonance

January 15, 2018 - Updated on February 15, 2019

Via Pixabay/12019

Astronomy

Supermassive black holes eventually stop star formation

January 3, 2018

Credit: University of Oxford / Jon Wade.

News

Not so dry after all: Mars lost much of its water to the crust

December 22, 2017 - Updated on April 24, 2019

Artist impression of plumes gushing out of Enceladus' south pole. Credit: NASA.

Alien life

Enceladus’ hidden ocean is kept warm by porous core

November 7, 2017

Drawing by Valderrama of the solar flare he observed on 10 September 1886 on a sunspot (with the penumbra shown with hashed lines and the umbra in black). Credits: Library of the Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute. / Credit: IAC.

Physics

How Spanish scientists described a solar flare in 1886

October 23, 2017

Lava tube on Earth, in the Hawaii National Park. Image credits: Hermann Luyken.

Geology

Researchers believe they’ve found a great place for a moonbase — thanks to a volcano

October 19, 2017

Credits: Google / NASA.

Remote sensing

You can now use Google Maps to explore other moons and planets

October 18, 2017

planet-nine

News

Evidence keeps pilling up in favor of the mysterious Planet Nine

October 18, 2017 - Updated on October 26, 2017

Building up a picture of CO2 is a complex business that requires a lot of modelling. Image credits: NASA / JPL.

Climate

NASA observatory highlights the importance of studying CO2 on Earth: it’s connected to everything

October 13, 2017

Martian gravity can reveal a lot of the planet's secrets. Credits: NASA/Goddard/UMBC/MIT/E. Mazarico.

Geology

Gravity map reveals Martian crust might be lighter than we thought

September 14, 2017

Credit: YouTube capture.

News

NASA will fly jets to chase the upcoming total eclipse to learn more about the sun

Artist impression of two supermassive black holes orbiting a common center of mass. Credit: Josh Valenzuela/UNM

News

Orbiting supermassive black holes confirmed by astronomers for the time

The quasi-zenith satellite Michibiki. Image credits: JAXA.

News

Japan launches satellite to generate its own, better GPS

News

Halos on Mars suggest the red planet may have been hospitable for far long longer than thought

Artist illustration of Cassini diving through Saturn's rings. Credit: NASA.

News

Cassini heard ‘the big empty’ when it dived through Saturn and its rings

neptune aurora

Great Pics

NASA snaps unprecedented image of auroras on gas giant Uranus

April 11, 2017 - Updated on April 13, 2017

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