NASA’s Perseverance puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in…
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The search for missing young stars
Credit: ESO/F. Nogueras-Lara et al. Hundreds of thousands of stars are contained in this picture, an…
US prestige at stake as Texas company launches for the moon
Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company leading mission “IM-1,” is aiming to become the first company to…
Astronomers discover massive protocluster around luminous quasar
Large scale overdensity of Lyhman-alpha emitters (LAEs) around quasar J0910–0414. Credit: Wang et al., 2024. Astronomers…
Astronomers discover Jupiter-sized objects drawn into each other’s orbit
Free-floating binary Jupiter-mass objects are common even when present stellar and planetary theory cannot account for…
Bad weather forces Japan’s space agency to delay launch of second test-flight of flagship rocket
An H3 rocket lifts off from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima, southern Japan on March 7,…
Why America is betting big on private space
While NASA’s public-private strategy for space has had some success, it also carries the risk of…
Meet NASA’s twin spacecraft headed to the ends of the Earth
The PREFIRE mission will send two CubeSats—depicted in an artist’s concept orbiting Earth—into space to study…
Scientists identify water molecules on asteroids for the first time
Using data from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Southwest Research Institute scientists have discovered,…
Sense the solar eclipse with NASA’s eclipse soundscapes project
An AudioMoth device hangs from a tree branch, ready to capture the sounds of an eclipse.…