Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Thought to make up 85% of matter in the universe, dark matter…
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Psyche gamma-ray instrument hums to life, marking next generation for space exploration
A portion of the Psyche GRNS and JPL instrument and operation teams at NASA’s Jet Propulsion…
How astronomers are searching the sky for alien probes near Earth
A still from footage showing Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Credit: US Department of Defense/US Navy There has…
Measuring the distances to galaxies with space telescopes
An illustration of measuring a photometric redshift using six broadband imaging filters (left panel). A model…
Earth may have had all the elements needed for life—contrary to theories that they came from meteorites
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For many years, scientists have predicted that many of the elements that…
Four eruptive young stellar objects discovered
Light curve of SPICY 99341. Photometric data from Gaia (green circles), is shifted by −7 magnitudes.…
Cow dung fuels Japan’s space ambitions
Japan’s space industry opens potentially an udder-ly new chapter with a start-up testing a prototype rocket…
Physics behind unusual behavior of stars’ super flares discovered
Modeled flare atmosphere and synthesized TESS light curves. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal (2023). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad077d Our…
NASA finds likely cause of OSIRIS-REx parachute deployment sequence
Credit: NASA NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule landed under parachute in the Utah desert on Sept.…
NASA’s Psyche delivers first images and other data
This mosaic was made from “first light” images acquired by both of the cameras on NASA’s…