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InSight reveals marsquakes travel through mantle, not crust
Researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland and Imperial College London confirmed that seismic waves…
Falcon-9 debris lights up European skies before crashing into Poland
The second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket from the Starlink Group 11-4 mission failed to…
Sampling Enceladus’ Subsurface Ocean with TIGRE Mission Concept
How can we explore Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, to include its surface and subsurface ocean, with the…
How Astronomers Make Deep Maps of the Milky Way
Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it’s so…
NASA Downgrades the Risk of 2024 YR4 to Below 1%
NASA astronomers have been continuing to monitor the trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4. The initial calculations…
Strange Winds Blow Through this Exoplanet’s Atmosphere
Some exoplanets have characteristics totally alien to our Solar System. Hot Jupiters are one such type.…
Fluffy Molecular Clouds Formed Stars in the Early Universe
Stars form in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs), vast clouds of mostly hydrogen that can span tens…
Neutral Hydrogen: The Next Big Game in Cosmology
The majority of the universe remains unmapped, but we have a potential window into it through…
Asteroid 2024 YR4’s impact probablity drops to 0.16%
Asteroid 2024 YR4, which has been making headlines since January as the “city killer,” has finally…