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Here are SPHEREx’s First Images
SPHEREx stands for the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices…
Webb Scans Asteroid 2024 YR4, it’s 60 Meters Across
The threat of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), while generally low, remains a significant concern due to the…
Studying Uranian Moons using Passive Radar Sounding
By Laurence Tognetti, MSc April 2, 2025 How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its…
Galaxies Were Already Dying Just 700 Million Years After the Big Bang
According to the most widely accepted cosmological model, the first stars and galaxies began forming around…
LOOKING GLASS: Exploring Titan’s Icy Hydrocarbon Cycle
Though wildly different in so many ways, Earth and Saturn’s moon Titan have something important in…
Perseverance is Trying Out Spacesuit Materials on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance Rover is an ambitious mission. In addition to its day-to-day exploration, the rover carried…
Students Designed a Mission to Venus on the Cheap
By Andy Tomaswick April 2, 2025 Sometimes, the best way to learn how to do something…
Ultralight Dark Matter Could Explain Early Black Hole Formation
A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not…
Spaceflight Weakens Our Weight-Bearing Bones the Most
Human beings evolved on Earth under the 1G pull of gravity. Travelling out into space has…