The asteroid 4 vesta, left, and Tatooine, as seen in Star Wars, on the right. Credit:…
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From the moon’s south pole to an ice-covered ocean world, several exciting space missions are slated for launch in 2024
An artist’s conception of the Hera mission to literally measure the impact of NASA’s DART mission…
LST-1 discovers the most distant active galactic nucleus at very high energies
LST-1 during observations at CTAO-North, La Palma, Spain. Credit: CTAO gGmbH (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) On 15…
Astronomers inspect a peculiar nuclear transient
AT 2019avd: Unabsorbed X-ray luminosity in the 0.3–2 keV band. The black dots, the light blue…
ESA is stockpiling simulated regolith for the ultimate lunar playground
Credit: NASA Testing interplanetary landers means putting them in an environment as close to their destination…
Ancient stars could make elements with atomic masses greater than 260
R-process nucleosynthesis. Credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The first stars of the universe were monstrous beasts.…
Astronomers detect new pulsar wind nebula and its associated pulsar
Composite image of the Galactic plane region and Potoroo, with the red layer showing the ASKAP…
Japan moon lander enters lunar orbit
Side view of the crater Moltke taken from Apollo 10. Credit: Public Domain Japan’s SLIM space…
Hubble sights a galaxy with ‘forbidden’ light
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is…
Researchers use VLT exoplanet hunter to study Jupiter’s winds
Image of Jupiter taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft in February 2022. The dark spot is the…