Day: October 8, 2024

A unique asteroid mission is underway. The European Space Agency‘s Hera mission launched today (Oct. 7) at 10:52 a.m. EDT (1452 GMT), riding a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in coastal Florida. ESA’s Hera spacecraft soared into a cloudy sky above Florida to begin a multimillion-mile trek across the solar …

SpaceX Rocket Launches Europe’s Hera Planetary Defense Probe To Visit Asteroid Smacked By NASA. Read More »

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have gained a more detailed picture of the turbulent “pancakes” of gas and dust surrounding young stars, feeding them and facilitating their growth before birthing planets. JWST gathered new details about the “winds of change” flows of gas that blow through these protoplanetary disks, carving out their …

James Webb Space Telescope Studies Dusty ‘Pancakes’ Feeding Baby Stars And Birthing Planets. Read More »