A new study has identified a nearby star whose sunspot cycles appear to have stopped. Studying this star might help explain the period from the…
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Illustration of an Artemis astronaut on the Moon. Credit: NASA Upgrade work continues outside the space station … An updated strategy for landing Artemis astronauts…
Lunar caves are not only a geologically pristine record of the Moon’s history, but they could also provide a safe home for future human explorers.…
This illustration shows the merger of two black holes and the gravitational waves that ripple outward as the black holes spiral toward each other. Credit:…
Animation of ESA’s Sun-explorer Solar Orbiter. Credit: ESA/Medialab Solar Orbiter’s latest images shows the full Sun in unprecedented detail. They were taken on March 7,…
J2030 X-Ray and Optical. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./M. de Vries; Optical: NSF/AURA/Gemini Consortium A city-sized collapsed star has generated a beam of matter and antimatter…
Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan preparing to collect samples 73001 and 73002 on the Moon in 1972. Gene Cernan collected the sample from a landslip…
This animation shows the path light will follow as it hits the primary James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mirror, and is reflected to the secondary,…
Pictured from left, are the Soyuz MS-19 crew ship and the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module with the Prichal docking module attached. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in…
The SPHEREx mission will have some similarities with the James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared observatory…
Artist’s impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disc. Credit: ESA/Hubble, ESO, M. Kornmesser Study adds more certainty to theory involving information…
Electrons in Earth’s radiation belts, show as yellow and red cross-sections, typically spiral back and forth, bouncing between the Poles. However, disturbances to the belts…
In this illustration, a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station for docking. Credit: NASA/SpaceX NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Like a time capsule that was sealed for posterity, one of the last unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo…
Small clip of the Thesan simulation. See video in article below. Named after a goddess of the dawn, the Thesan simulation of the first billion…
This image visualizes wintertime sea ice change in the Arctic using data provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Global Change Observation Mission 1st-Water “SHIZUKU”…
An artist’s interpretation of liquid water on the surface of the Europa pooling beneath chaos terrain. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Salt water within the icy shell of…
Klet Observatory sees asteroid 2022 EB5, 13 minutes before impact. Credit: ESA Most asteroids that have impacted Earth were discovered many years, often many millions…
An artistic impression of the high-frequency retrograde (HFR) vorticity waves. These waves appear as swirling motions near the equator of the Sun. The rotation in…
To survive on MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. Iron oxide is prevalent in…