A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State.

An Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team has developed a deep learning model that uses AI image recognition to efficiently and accurately detect bubble-like structures in the universe, including many previously unlisted in astronomical databases.

The Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Technology, Tel Aviv University, and nine municipalities across Israel have announced an unprecedented milestone in space research and scientific education: a constellation of nine research nanosatellites—the largest Israeli satellite constellation ever—has been launched into space from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The nanosatellites, each measuring 10×10×11.3 cm, were designed and built by high school students from across the country. They were launched into low Earth orbit at an altitude of 500 kilometers aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Under the nighttime California sky, NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14. Taking off from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara, the EZIE mission’s trio of small satellites will fly in a pearls-on-a-string configuration approximately 260 to 370 miles above Earth’s surface to map the auroral electrojets, powerful electric currents that flow through our upper atmosphere in the polar regions where auroras glow in the sky.

 

The H.E.R.M.E.S. Constellation of the Italian Space Agency (ASI).  The High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites - Pathfinder Mission was successfully launched into orbit aboard the Space X Transporter 13. The launch took place this morning at 7:43 Italian time from Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) in California, USA. The six CubeSats in the constellation were grouped on an ION release platform made by the Italian company D-Orbit, positioned on a Falcon 9 vector. The six nanosatellites are clustered in a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 500-520 km, with an inclination of 97.44 degrees, and will be deployed about a week after launch with the release of one per day.