NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica
Reported by NASA
Description Data from the Earth-orbiting U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite’s L-band radar was used to produce an image of Nunatak Zaterjavshijsja — a mountaintop in East Antarctica — poking out amid a stream of ice flowi...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:33 +0000
NASA's Psyche Spacecraft Captured a Time-Lapse Video of its Mars Flyby
Reported by Universe Today
NASA's Psyche mission used a gravity assist maneuver at Mars to gain velocity and adjust its trajectory to its eventual target. The asteroid 16 Psyche is a metal-rich asteroid that may be the remnant rocky core of a protoplanet. The flyby not only shepherd...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:28 +0000
NASA to Host Media Briefing on Roman Telescope, Launching Next Month
Reported by NASA
Media are invited to join NASA for a virtual news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, July 29, to preview the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, scheduled to launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 30. NASA will ...
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:07 +0000
Astronomers Are Still Trying to Understand How a Galaxy's Spiral Arms Form
Reported by Universe Today
Spiral galaxies, including grand spirals like the Whirlpool galaxy, are plentiful. But it's still a mystery how their spiral arms form and persist for hundreds of millions of years, and why some galaxies have one, two, or three or more arms. New research b...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:38 +0000
Astronomers Catch a "Dark Comet" Red-Handed
Reported by Universe Today
Our ability to track and visualize small rocks in space is still improving. And occasionally we’ll find a space rock that will remind us of that fact. One such rock is detailed in a new paper, led by Davide Farnocchia of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laborator...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:10 +0000
US-India Satellite Delivers Data, Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica
Reported by NASA
As of July 20, the public can access data from the two powerful radar instruments aboard the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite. Teams in the United States and India will release files processed from the satellite’s L-band and S-band ra...
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:14 +0000