JWST hunts for an ‘Earth-moon’ twin in a habitable zone, but the star has other plans The moon has played…
Two blazing quasars caught waltzing into a merger Astronomers, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have confirmed the existence…
Contribution to Artemis II Moon mission sees successful test of a space camera under cosmic ray conditions The GSI Helmholtzzentrum…
The most energetic neutrino ever detected could be primordial In the exotic world of particle physics, neutrinos may be the…
Save NASA Science returns to Capitol Hill The 2026 Day of Action brought more than 130 space advocates from 34…
Does reading do us any good? Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an…
Milky Way’s ‘little cousins’ may hold clues about infant universe Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies—tiny satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way—have long…
Moon dust could stop being a nuisance and start reshaping how humans may build beyond Earth As space agencies and…
Image: Belts of green in the Washington suburbs Along the northeast side of the Capital Beltway in Maryland, green spaces…
Mapping the hidden structure of the universe The universe has a hidden structure, and a University of Virginia professor is…
What makes Mars’ magnetotail flap? Two spacecraft point to magnetic reconnection The sun continuously blasts charged, magnetic field-carrying particles, or…
Sulfur-rich Mercury magmas behave differently than Earth’s do Mercury is a small, rocky planet about which researchers know relatively little….
Extraction of oxygen from lunar regolith using solar pyrolysis Experimental apparatus of an experiment to characterize solar pyrolysis of lunar…
DESI completes planned 3D map of the universe and continues exploring The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has successfully completed…
Volunteers discover rare space weather events using their ears Our planet rests inside a magnetic cocoon filled with plasma—but it’s…
Triumph and turmoil The successful conclusion to Artemis II; the threat of termination to many other missions. Go to Source…
The invention of the soul Humans weren’t given souls by God or genes. We made them ourselves with language –…
New open-source Python-based software boosts space-weather modeling University of Birmingham experts have created open-source computer software that helps scientists understand…
New open-source Python-based software boosts space-weather modeling University of Birmingham experts have created open-source computer software that helps scientists understand…
No Signs of Atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 b or c Waiting to learn what next generation telescopes will reveal is tantalizing…
‘Interstellar glaciers’: NASA’s SPHEREx maps vast galactic ice regions NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of…
Research helps power safe return of astronauts in historic Orion splashdown When NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific…
Self-interacting dark matter may solve three cosmic puzzles A study led by UC Riverside physicist Hai-Bo Yu suggests that a…
How Artemis II’s Earthset photo compares with the iconic Earthrise image from 1968 As NASA’s Artemis II mission completed its…
Astronomers find evidence for three subpopulations of merging black holes Astronomers analyzing gravitational-wave data from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration have reported…
Chang’e mission samples reveal how exogenous organic matter evolves on the moon Elements essential to life, such as carbon, nitrogen,…
What a view! Artemis II brings us amazing views of Earth, the Moon, and the Cosmos beyond. Go to Source…
Patterns without desires The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world….
Medieval Japanese poetry and buried trees help elucidate volatile space weather On Earth, extreme solar activity often appears as beautiful,…
Artemis II astronauts describe their lunar voyage as surreal and profound ahead of Earth return Drawing ever closer to Earth,…
Interstellar Probes: Moving Beyond Bracewell Lately we’ve been discussing interstellar probes, the kind that an extraterrestrial civilization might use to…
Student research on coronal holes improves space weather forecasting Fast solar winds originating from the sun can have direct impacts…
Parabolic flight test shows lasers can propel graphene aerogels in microgravity Lasers could one day steer solar sails and adjust…
If life exists in Venus’s atmosphere, it could have come from Earth The theory of panspermia holds that life is…
On Artemis and Starshot Watching Artemis lofting skyward I relived the Apollo launches, experiencing feelings that no subsequent missions ever…
Artemis astronauts begin fifth day on historic moon mission The four astronauts on NASA’s Artemis 2 mission began their fifth…
Two’s company: Scientists identify new class of star remnants In about 5 to 8 billion years, our sun is expected…
The depths of Neptune and Uranus may be ‘superionic’ The interiors of ice giant planets like Uranus and Neptune could…
What is the skinny budget and what does it mean for NASA? The White House Office of Management and Budget…
When trauma becomes trope Humanitarian journalism is a moral calling to document human suffering. But in practice, it’s an ethically…
The unseen challenges of life on the moon For the first time since the Apollo era, humans are preparing not…
The unseen challenges of life on the moon For the first time since the Apollo era, humans are preparing not…
Mercury scout mission concept with solar sail propulsion The planet Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, and also…
Thinking about Bracewell Probes Sometimes I jog my perspective on thorny physics issues by going back to earlier work. At…
Seven missions launched to test optimized data transfer from space Eight CubeSats and one payload supported by the European Space…
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…
Room with a view on the Moon Artist rendering of what could be the first hotel on the Moon. Credit:…
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”…
What is an exoplanet? An astrophysicist explains why they are vital for finding alien life Scientists might have just found…
Assessment of rare ‘teenage’ planetary system deepens understanding of cosmic evolution Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds…
