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One Instrument on the Failed Lunar Lander Did a Little Science
When Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus Lander launched for the Moon in February 2024, it faced a number…
NASA Astronauts Set to Return to Earth on SpaceX Capsule: Live Updates
Updated March 17, 2025, 9:01 p.m. ET When the NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore…
What’s the Deadliest Part of a Supernova Explosion?
What’s the deadliest part of a supernova explosion? To estimate this we have to look at…
Exploding Stars May Have Caused Two of Earth’s Mass Extinctions
Nothing can withstand a powerful supernova explosion. Only distance can dull their power, and that distance…
A New Company Plans to Prospect the Moon
By Andy Tomaswick March 17, 2025 Helium-3 (He-3) on the Moon’s surface has drawn attention for…
NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-9 Return, Splashdown
Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated March 17, 2025, to add new NASA+ links for the…
Giant Exoplanets Have Elliptical Orbits. Smaller Planets Follow Circular Orbits
We are so familiar with our solar system that we often presume it is generally how…
NASA astronauts stranded in orbit set for long-awaited return after nine months on ISS
For nearly nine months, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore have remained aboard the International…
Most quakes on Mars happen during the summer – and we don’t know why
A fracture on Mars’s surface, taken in January 2018 by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express…