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Blue Origin Plans A Pair Of Low-Flying Prospectors Around The Lunar South Pole

The water locked up in the Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSRs) of the Moon’s south pole is a critical resource if we are ever going to get a permanent lunar presence off the ground. But while we know the water ice there exists, we don’t really know how much. We have to move from general estimates to mineable-scale prospecting data. That is what Oasis-1, the newly proposed lunar prospecting mission from Blue Origin that was recently introduced at the 2026 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) is meant to do. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/i4SqjUx via IFTTT
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JWST Spies Once-hidden Treasures in the W51 Starbirth Crèche

Star formation is a dramatic and complex process that erupts throughout the Universe. Yet, a lot of the action gets hidden by clouds of gas and dust. That's where observatories such as the James Webb Telescope JWST and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) come in handy. They use infrared light and radio waves, respectively, to pierce the veil surrounding the process of starbirth. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/LhyRD1C via IFTTT
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Artemis II Mission Shares First Photo of Earth

NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/OUCyWnY via IFTTT
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If Life Exists in Venus' Atmosphere, It Could Have Come From Space

A new study presented at the 2026 LPSC suggests that if life does exist in Venus' clouds, there's a chance it came from Earth. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/ojDMGJa via IFTTT
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An Aerobot With ISRU Capabilities Could Explore Venus' Atmosphere for Years

In a new proposal, a team of scientists explores how aerial robotic platforms (areobots) with in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) capability could operate for years in Venus' atmosphere. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/iDN1fHC via IFTTT
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The Habitable Worlds Observatory Will Need Astrometry To Find Life

We’re getting closer and closer to finding a real Earth-like exoplanet. But finding one is only half the battle. To truly know if we’re looking at an Earth analog somewhere else in the galaxy, we have to directly image it too. That’s a job for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), a planned space-based telescope whose primary job is to do precisely that. But even capturing a picture and a planet and getting spectral readings of its atmospheric chemistry still isn’t enough, according to a new paper available in pre-print on arXiv by Kaz Gary of Ohio State and their co-authors. HWO will need to figure out how much a planet weighs first. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/3KAx2pr via IFTTT
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The Artemis Generation Begins! Artemis II Launches for the Moon

At 06:25 p.m. EDT (03:25 p.m. PDT) on April 1st, the Artemis II mission lifted off from the historic Launch Pad-39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This mission will send astronauts on a ten-day journey around the Moon and will be the first crewed mission to venture beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) since the Apollo Era. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/Pp7fT1B via IFTTT
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