Within the Margin: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Kicks Off New Campaign on Mars
Perseverance begins the Margin Campaign on Mars, exploring the origins and significance of Jezero Crater’s marginal carbonates over the next 230 sols. This week on…
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Gobbling Galaxies: Black Holes’ Speedy Feast Shocks Scientists
New research reveals that supermassive black holes consume surrounding material faster than previously believed. This insight, derived from high-resolution simulations, could explain why quasars flare…
Why Is Juice Taking Sooo Long? Straight Lines in Space Are a Massive Waste of Energy
Juice: Why’s It Taking Sooo Long At their closest point in orbit, Earth and Jupiter are separated by almost 600 million kilometers (375 million miles)….
Record-Setting NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio Has Reached One Full Year in Space
Expedition 69 crew members on the ISS marked a busy week with cleaning, maintenance, and experiments. Frank Rubio, Sergey Prokopyev, and Dmitri Petelin celebrated a…
Solar Orbiter Closes in on Sun’s Biggest Secret: Solving a 65-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery
A cosmic alignment and a little bit of spacecraft gymnastics have provided a ground-breaking measurement that is helping solve the 65-year-old cosmic mystery of why…
Venus on Earth: NASA’s VERITAS Science Team Explores Iceland’s Volcanic Terrain
The JPL-led international team used the island as a stand-in for Venus to test radar technologies that will help uncover the planet’s ground truth. With…
NASA’s Record-Breaking Astronaut: Scientific Highlights of Frank Rubio’s Year in Space
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is set to return to Earth this fall after setting the record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut….
Protostars in Unique Triple Formation Illuminate Stellar Feeding Mechanisms
An international research team used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe the triple protostar system IRAS 04239+2436, to investigate the detailed structure of…
Shackleton Shadows Unveiled: NASA Stunning Moon Camera Mosaic Sheds Light on Lunar South Pole
LROC and ShadowCam collaboratively unveil the Shackleton Crater’s mosaic, providing unparalleled insights into the lunar South Pole and its potential ice deposits, aiding future lunar…
ISS Activity Surge: Ultraviolet Earth Glows, Sleep Science, Microbial Research, and Crew Handovers
Ten orbital residents had a full schedule on Wednesday, September 20, attending to a mix of tasks including eye exams, station maintenance, and training. While…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Makes Final Course Adjustment Before Asteroid Sample Delivery
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft fired its thrusters to adjust its trajectory to refine its sample capsule’s landing location on Earth, set for September 24, targeting the…
800-Year-Old Math Trick Could Help With Navigating the Moon
Navigation systems suitable for lunar surface exploration to chart future expeditions. Kamilla Cziráki, a geophysics student from the Faculty of Science at Eötvös Loránd University…
Full House in Space: 10 Astronauts, Circadian Lighting, and Chocolate Mousse
It’s a full house aboard the International Space Station as 10 residents are living on orbit following Friday’s arrival of a new crew. Tuesday, September…
The Search for Dark Matter – A Promising New Method
Approximately 80% of the universe’s matter is composed of a mysterious and unseen substance. This “dark matter” was first theorized nearly 90 years ago. “This…
Weighing the Universe: Astrophysicists Measure the Total Amount of Matter, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy
A research team relies on measuring the number of galaxy members to determine the mass of galaxy clusters. One of the most pressing questions in…
NASA’s Big Reveal: Asteroid Sample Collected in Space, Delivered to Earth
NASA’s Johnson Space Center will reveal the US’s first asteroid sample from the seven-year OSIRIS-REx mission on October 11. This sample will provide insights into…
Unprecedented Radio Wave Detection From a Type Ia Supernova
Astronomers have, for the first time, detected radio waves from a Type Ia supernova, uncovering new clues about white dwarf explosions and their helium-rich environments….
A Spectacular Rare Green Comet Lighting Up the Sky? An Expert on What To Expect From Nishimura
Of all the objects in the Solar System, perhaps the most spectacular are the great comets that occasionally grace our skies. If you’ve been on…
