The exceptional quasar J0529−4351. Credit: Nature Astronomy (2024). A new study published in Nature Astronomy describes…
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Fresh insights from rocks formed 3.5 billion years ago
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Our Earth is around 4.5 billion years old. Way back in its…
Have a look at the whos, whats and whens of leap year through time
A calendar shows the month of February, including leap day, Feb. 29, on Saturday, Feb. 24,…
Why it took the US 51 years to get back on the moon
Credit: CC0 Public Domain For the first time since 1972, the United States is back on…
Anti-satellite systems are indiscriminate, posing a risk to everyone’s spacecraft
Space is already crowded with human-made objects and anti-satellite weapons can make the situation much worse.…
Private US spacecraft is on its side on the moon with some antennas covered up, the company says
On Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 the Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lunar lander captures a wide field of…
Lander ‘alive and well’ after company scores first US moon landing since Apollo era
This photo provided by Intuitive Machines shows the company’s IM-1 Nova-C lunar lander in Houston in…
How we could snoop on extraterrestrial communications networks
A 3-pulsar navigation system for an ET civilization. Credit: Ross Davis (2022) The conditions for life…
Researchers find destruction of oceans’ worth of water per month in Orion Nebula
The inner region of the Orion Nebula as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam…
Astronomers detect a new short-period brown dwarf
The full NGTS lightcurve for NGTS-28AB with the transit positions marked by the red dashed lines.…