Key moments during BepiColombo’s fourth Mercury flyby on 4 September 2024. The ESA/JAXA spacecraft will pass…
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Scientist discusses the MESSENGER mission to Mercury
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Twenty years ago, the MESSENGER mission revolutionized our understanding of Mercury. We…
Engineers smash rocks to see what occurs when top layer of an asteroid-like object is hit with extreme external force
Credit: Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins engineers have uncovered new details about how granular materials such…
Astronomers await a once-in-80-year stellar explosion
An illustration of a system like T Coronae Borealis that Piro made when he was a graduate…
Origins of variability in X-ray photons from a symbiotic binary star as revealed by dimensionality reduction
Artist’s impression of binary system, in which a compact star accreting material from a giant star.…
Two solar probes are helping researchers understand what phenomenon powers the solar wind
This artist’s rendition shows NASA’s Parker Solar Probe approaching the sun. Credit: Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA…
FAA lets SpaceX get back to launches, but Polaris Dawn awaits good weather
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX got the OK to fly again from the Federal Aviation Administration…
NASA lines up return date for Boeing Starliner minus humans
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Butch- and Suni-less Boeing Starliner has been given a date to…
Christa McAuliffe, still pioneering, is first woman with a statue on New Hampshire capitol grounds
This Sept. 26, 1985 photo made available by NASA shows astronaut Christa McAuliffe. Credit: NASA via…
Inside the ‘golden age’ of alien hunting at the Green Bank Telescope
If intelligent life exists beyond Earth, there’s a good chance the teams analyzing the data from…