JWST Peeks at Callisto’s Ancient Scars
Reported by Universe Today
Of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, Callisto is the one that gets the least attention. Io is constantly being resurfaced by volcanoes. Europa has a giant liquid water ocean. And Ganymede has its own magnetic field that interacts with its parent planet in w...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:22 +0000
NASA’s B777 Gets New Coat of Paint
Reported by NASA
NASA’s Boeing 777 shows off a new paint job in this Aug. 11, 2026, photo. The B777 was acquired to replace and extend the capabilities of the NASA DC-8, which was retired in 2024. The B777, set to begin operations from NASA’s Langley Research C...
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:10 +0000
A Quantum Trick for Spotting Gravitational Waves
Reported by Universe Today
Gravitational wave astronomy has seen plenty of improvements since the original signal was captured in 2015. Despite that, it remains an engineering challenge to actually create the detectors needed for the precise measurements that gravitational waves req...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:37 +0000
NASA Glenn’s Legacy Forged Through Decades of Flight Research
Reported by NASA
Many of NASA’s most important aerospace breakthroughs that began in the laboratory were ultimately proven in the sky. For decades, experts at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland conducted flight tests — piloting aircraft int...
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:00 +0000
1st ultra-faint Milky Way satellite galaxy found by Rubin
Reported by Space | EarthSky
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has only just begun its survey, yet it has already discovered its first ultra-faint Milky Way satellite, Aquarius IV.
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- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:53 +0000
What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 2: A Machine to Find Another Earth
Reported by Universe Today
The Habitable Worlds Observatory is being built for one purpose: to directly image another living Earth. Inside the coronagraph that must block ten billion times the planet's light, the picometer-stable mirror we don't yet know how to build, and the messy ...
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:16 +0000