A new paper from NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the...
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of Thebe, the second largest of Jupiter’s inner moons, during a...
This series of images shows NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the...
Some of the most beautiful creatures to grace the ancient seas, the ammonites, disappeared in the end-Cretaceous...
Across the Milky Way galaxy, a planetary odd couple is circling a star some 190 light years...
The mechanism that can cause a rapidly expanding plasma—the superhot state of matter harnessed in fusion energy...
Also known as Endurance, MK1 is an uncrewed cargo lander. It’s a commercial demonstration mission to advance...
A new publication from Bielefeld University sets a benchmark in optimization research. Together with an international team,...
A team of professional and amateur Japanese astronomers have found evidence for a thin atmosphere around a...
Cell walls are a crucial structure of plant life, protecting cells from damage, giving plants shape, and...
Moonlight determines when the red-necked nightjar feeds, migrates and raises its young. A groundbreaking long-term study from...
Using MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of researchers led...
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower soon will light the sky with debris from Halley’s comet. But a...
We’re focusing on space news this week, but we did cover the usual amount of local news...
Millions of people watched the historic launch of Artemis II and were captivated by the mission’s 10-day...
Seeing an eclipse from Earth is awe‑inspiring—for astronauts in space, the scene was even more grand
The astronauts on Artemis II’s trip to the moon in April 2026 didn’t just have an amazing...
Chinese astronomers report the discovery of DESI-HVS1, which may be an old metal-poor hypervelocity star of galactic...
Expose an animal to extreme physical stress, and the expectation is simple: It will break down. But...
When you’re looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, it helps to know what you’re looking for and...
One of the most powerful radar systems ever launched into space has mapped the ground moving beneath...