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Scientists and engineers on campus and Lab wished NASA's Europa Clipper mission a bon voyage on October 14 as it launched from Earth toward Jupiter's frozen moon, Europa.

An international team including UCL researchers have received €3 million from the European Union to complete a conceptual study of a telescope that could become operational in Chile after 2040.

An artist's concept of NASA's Europa Clipper shows the spacecraft in silhouette against Europa's surface, with the magnetometer boom fully deployed at top and the antennas for the radar instrument extending out from the solar arrays.

The method could help communities visualize and prepare for approaching storms. Visualizing the potential impacts of a hurricane on people's homes before it hits can help residents prepare and decide whether to evacuate. MIT scientists have developed a method that generates satellite imagery from the future to depict how a region would look after a potential flooding event.

New results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal that a young star, FU Orionis (FU Ori), is circled by a disk of material that is much hotter than expected-16,000 Kelvin, or nearly three times our Sun's surface temperature. That sizzling temperature is nearly twice as hot as previously believed.

Albert Einstein's transformational prediction about how gravity behaves has been backed by an international team of researchers who studied how the force acts on cosmic scales.

A prototype of a robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons is reflected in the water's surface during a pool test at Caltech in September.

Building off the first analyses of the largest 3D map of the universe released earlier this year, scientists working with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) have pulled additional information from the map.

The Lincoln Laboratory-developed laser communications payload operates at the data rates required to image these never-before-seen thin halos of light.

Professor of the practice Alan Lightman's new book digs into the wonder of striking visual phenomena in nature.

The rover captured a 360-degree panorama before leaving Gediz Vallis channel, a feature it's been exploring for the past year.

A new index, based on measures of so-called resilience, is needed to help gauge the success of policies aimed at preserving humanity's ability to live within Earth's resources, finds a new study involving a UCL researcher. In a paper published in the journal One Earth , researchers from UCL, the University of Southampton and the University of East Anglia outlined the case for moving towards an 'holistic' approach to gauging policy success which incorporates environmental and societal wellbeing measures in addition to economic ones.

NASA's EMIT collected this hyperspectral image of the Amazon River in northern Brazil on June 30 as part of an effort to map global ecosystem biodiversity.

A team of astrophysicists, led by our Institute for Computational Cosmology, have developed a new model that could estimate how likely it is for intelligent life to emerge in our Universe and beyond.

A photon detector module designed, assembled and programmed at University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) launched into space earlier this week aboard a SpaceX flight and will soon arrive at the International Space Station.

The NISAR mission will help researchers get a better understanding of how Earth's surface changes over time, including in the lead-up to volcanic eruptions like the one pictured, at Mount Redoubt in southern Alaska in April 2009.

A weak magnetic field likely pulled matter inward to form the outer planetary bodies, from Jupiter to Neptune. Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have analyzed particles of the asteroid Ryugu, which were collected by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 mission and brought back to Earth in 2020.

Aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, the terminal will beam data over laser links during the first crewed lunar mission since 1972.

The gruesome palette of these galaxies is owed to a mix of mid-infrared light from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and visible and ultraviolet light from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes integration and testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in April 2024. The space telescope will use a technique called spectroscopy across the entire sky, capturing the universe in more than 100 colors. Credit: BAE Systems" The space telescope will detect over 100 colors from hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies.

A SWOT data visualization shows water on the northern side of Greenland's Dickson Fjord at higher levels than on the southern side on Sept.

The tiny, potato-shaped moon Phobos, one of two Martian moons, cast a silhouette as it passed in front of the Sun, creating an eye in Mars' sky.

Honorees include the agency's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, the Deep Space Optical Communications experiment, and Europa Clipper.

With one of its solar arrays deployed, NASA's Lunar Trailblazer sits in a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space.

MIT Kavli Institute scientists and collaborators will produce a concept study to launch a $1B experiment to investigate the X-ray universe.

On its way up the side of Jezero Crater, the agency's latest Red Planet off-roader peers all the way back to its landing site and scopes the path ahead.

The Roman Coronagraph is integrated with the Instrument Carrier for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in a clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Cardiff scientists are key participants in a $1bn space mission being considered by NASA to explore the secrets of the universe.

NASA's Europa Clipper was launched on October 14, 2024, on its mission to conduct a detailed study of Jupiter's moon Europa.