How the solar wind really works The sun, our nearest star, never stops breathing. Every second of every day, it…
ZTF discovers a new mass-transferring brown dwarf binary system Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and elsewhere report…
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Scientists detect magnetic waves deep within the sun, helping predict solar activity Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi have discovered new…
He suddenly couldn’t speak in space. NASA astronaut says his medical scare remains a mystery The astronaut who prompted NASA’s…
On the launchpad NASA launches a new plan, Artemis II returns to the launchpad, and a new rocket gets a…
Catastrophe markets Americans love to gamble. But placing bets on wildfires, floods and storms comes with serious moral and social…
NASA’s Artemis II mission will take an astronaut crew around the Moon: The long road to launch NASA is once…
Earth’s magnetic field creates a previously undetected pocket of protection from radiation on the moon High-energy particles called galactic cosmic…
Helping to enable efficiencies in aviation through smarter fluids The aviation industry must operate on tight margins, with a new…
Distant galaxy fades 20-fold in just two decades, challenging how supermassive black holes evolve An international team led by a…
Interstellar Choices: Where to Look for Habitability? A recent conversation with a friend who works the futures markets has me…
AI approach uncovers dozens of hidden planets in NASA’s TESS data Astronomers at the University of Warwick have validated over…
Shift in key cosmic inflation measurement could be a statistical artifact For the last few decades, researchers have been studying…
All 5 fundamental units of life’s genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample A new study reveals all…
Newly discovered photos show astronaut Neil Armstrong after the Gemini 8 emergency Sixty years after Neil Armstrong barely survived an…
A self-sufficient Mars garden? How cyanobacteria-based fertilizer could grow edible biomass A research team from the Center for Applied Space…
Builders and boulders Spacecraft are being built, and boulders are solving puzzles. Go to Source Author: The latest stories from…
Bitch: a history The word can morph from noun to verb to adjective, from dog to human, from female to…
NASA’s Artemis missions promise a return to the moon—but when? NASA’s Artemis II mission plans to fly around the moon…
NASA’s Artemis missions promise a return to the moon—but when? NASA’s Artemis II mission plans to fly around the moon…
How two dim stars came together to shine brightly Brown dwarfs get a bad rap in the stellar world, often…
Biology on a Rogue Planet’s Moon? I don’t write science fiction, but I have several friends who think I do…
From dust to planets: Parabolic flight reveal a turbulent path How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately…
A 60-year old mystery about the moon’s magnetosphere is finally solved One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that…
CHEOPS discovery defies planetary formation rules We’re starting to see just how exceptional our own solar system and its history…
Dry ice detected in a planetary nebula for the first time An international team of astronomers has employed the James…
Dragonfly mission begins rotorcraft integration, testing stage Dragonfly integration and testing—the activities involved in assembling the mission’s rotorcraft lander and…
The view from the top The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has a great view of the Cosmos — and of…
A duty to oneself African philosophical values of harmony and vitality have much to offer our thinking about what we…
AI accelerates elucidation of nuclear forces with explosive neutron star data A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand…
NASA clears its Artemis moon rocket for an April launch with four astronauts following repairs NASA cleared its moon rocket…
The Rubin Observatory’s LSST will detect imminent impactors before they crash into Earth The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) has barely…
How jagged moon dust could support future astronauts Lunar dust can be a pain—but it’s also literally the ground we…
Starshot Is a Success (Part II) The second part of Jim Benford’s examination of Breakthrough Starshot concludes our look at…
Evaluating landing sites for China’s manned moon mission Observations of the Rimae Bode region on the moon reveal five distinct…
Space launches are changing the chemistry of Earth’s atmosphere, studies warn. Here’s what can be done Look up on a…
Red dwarf stars might starve alien plants of the ‘quality’ light they need to breathe Red dwarfs make up the…
Stars like our sun may maintain the same rotation pattern for life, contrary to 45 years of theoretical predictions Researchers…
Stellar death and an Artemis overhaul A planetary nebula teaches us about how stars die, and a new Artemis architecture…
Savage care Neat ethical principles have nothing to say to doctors like me, faced with the brutal, bloody compromises of…
NASA now officially has no plans to use new mobile launcher for Artemis When NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the…
Starshot Is a Success: Part I The fortunes of Breakthrough Starshot have been the subject of so much discussion not…
Europe’s answer to Starship In the summer of 2023, something happened that engineers had talked about for decades but few…
A ‘Cosmic Positioning System’ in the outer solar system There have been plenty of attempts to resolve the “Hubble Tension”…
