An SwRI-led team used NASA’s Webb telescope, shown in the bottom right corner of this illustration,…
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Novel anemometer tracks sound travel for speedier, more precise wind speed calculations on Mars
Authors Robert White (left), Ian Neeson (center) and Don Banfield (right) in the Mars Simulation Wind…
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on ISS reveals surplus of cosmic rays
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (center left) on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Cosmic rays confound…
SpaceX’s Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump for president—what this could mean for US space policy
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Elon Musk officially endorsed Donald Trump for president of the United States…
NASA just shut down a planetary defense mission that tracks asteroids. Now what?
Artist’s impression of NEOWISE spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Caltech-JPL Launched in 2011, NASA’s NEOWISE mission operated in Earth’s…
A galactic ‘comet’ called Terzan 5 illuminates a 100-year-old puzzle about cosmic rays
When my colleagues and I set to work on a century-old cosmic mystery, we found an…
Astronomers detect a blazar exhibiting sinusoidal radio variability
The light curve of PKS J0805−0111. Credit: De La Parra et al., 2024. An international team…
SpaceX announces new private mission on 1st human polar orbit spaceflight
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX has lined up more business for its human spaceflight program with…
Earth hit by ‘severe’ solar storm
Photo of the Sun taken by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager of the European Space Agency’s Solar…
Astronomers ask public to help find newly formed black holes
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The Dutch Black Hole Consortium has launched an eight-language version of the…