NASA once celebrated her, then fired her, and then tried to erase her story: The rise and fall of Rose Ferreira |
Image: Brooke Owens Fellowship Rose Ferreira’s life story reads like a tale of resilience against impossible odds. Born…
Solar Orbiter traces Sun’s energetic electrons to dual eruptions
The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has traced floods of energetic electrons hurled out by the Sun…
Voyager 2’s journey into interstellar space raises more questions than answers!
Voyager 2 continues to travel at over 55,000 kilometres per hour, moving deeper into interstellar space. Its power…
5 mysteries of the solar system that still baffle scientists
In 2017, astronomers detected ‘Oumuamua, an interstellar object passing through our solar system. Its unusual shape and acceleration…
What did NASA’s Juno mission discover about Jupiter? Here are 5 mind-blowing findings..
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, peeling back layers of mystery around the Solar System’s…
Could you survive HD 189733b, the 927°C world that rains razor-sharp glass?
From afar, HD 189733b glimmers like a tranquil jewel, a sapphire-coloured world suspended in the darkness of space.…
Mars has a lumpy interior caused by 4.5-billion-year-old collisions, study shows
An artist’s illustration of the lumps within Mars’ mantle (Image source: NASA and JPL-Caltech; cropped) Using data from…
What Starship’s Success Means For SpaceX’s Future
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at SpaceX’s successful Starship flight, IBM and AMD’s plan…
Inside the massive storm bigger than Earth
Voyager 2’s observations transformed planetary science. For the first time, astronomers could study the Great Red Spot as…
What did Voyager 2 discover on Neptune’s moon Triton and why did it shock scientists?
Before 1989, expectations for Triton were minimal. Scientists anticipated a cratered, frozen moon, similar to other outer Solar…
How Voyager 2’s discoveries at Uranus and Neptune changed planetary science forever
Voyager 2’s closest approach to Neptune came on August 25, 1989, at just under 5,000 kilometres from the…
Webb Captures the First-Ever Image of the Butterfly Nebula’s Hidden Heart
Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302 (Webb & ALMA image) |ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Matsuura, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), N. Hirano,…