NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter: We’re Going Big for Flight 9
Since Ingenuity’s historic first flight on April 19, where it hovered about 10 feet (3 meters) above the Martian surface for 30 seconds, we have…
Since Ingenuity’s historic first flight on April 19, where it hovered about 10 feet (3 meters) above the Martian surface for 30 seconds, we have…
NEOWISE has provided an estimate of the size of over 1,850 near-Earth objects, helping us better understand our nearest solar system neighbors. For two more…
Perseverance’s First Autonav Drive: Perseverance relies on left and right navigation cameras. The view seen here combines the perspective of two cameras rover during the…
Scientists from the University of Graz (Austria), Skoltech, and their colleagues from the US and Germany have developed a new neural network that can reliably…
The international James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review for its launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in…
NASA is taking additional steps to investigate the Hubble Space Telescope’s payload computer issue that began on June 13, suspending science observations. In parallel with…
An international group of astronomers has created images with never-before-seen detail of a galaxy cluster with a black hole at its center, traveling at high…
Study offers evidence, based on gravitational waves, to show that the total area of a black hole’s event horizon can never decrease. There are certain…
With a competitive bracket contest, there was no risk of “Mooni McMoonface” being the winner. “Commander Moonikin Campos” is the official name of the manikin…
New research shows how the fundamental law of conservation of charge could break down near a black hole. Singularities, such as those at the center…
Astronomers have discovered the smallest and most massive white dwarf ever seen. The smoldering cinder, which formed when two less massive white dwarfs merged, is…
First successful use aboard International Space Station of new technique for studying DNA repair in yeast. Researchers have developed and successfully demonstrated a novel method…
New analysis by University of Chicago astronomer finds agreement with standard model in ongoing “Hubble tension.” Our universe is expanding, but our two main ways…
Scientists offer new theory to explain the origin of monsters of the cosmos. When astronomers use telescopes to look back in time—toward objects in the…
A new paper finds more radar signals suggesting the presence of subsurface ‘lakes,’ but many are in areas too cold for water to remain liquid….
Astronomers studying stellar pairs uncover evidence that there could be many more Earth-sized planets than previously thought. Some exoplanet searches could be missing nearly half…
Why do some science instruments detect the gas on the Red Planet while others don’t? Reports of methane detections at Mars have captivated scientists and…
Mix pair is “elusive missing piece of the family picture of compact object mergers.” A long time ago, in two galaxies about 900 million light-years…