Biologist Pubudu Handakumbura leads the charge in exploring how plants may behave differently in a microgravity…
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Massive solar wind disturbance caused Earth’s magnetosphere to fly without its usual tail
A coronal mass ejection in April 2023 caused Earth to grow Alfvén wings. (This CME, with…
SpaceX lines up next 2 Space Coast launches on Friday and Saturday
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX shot up three Falcon 9 rockets from three launch pads last…
Study of comet A117uUD data suggests it was put on a ‘hyperbolic trajectory’ during pass by Saturn
Values of the minimum approach distance (color-coded) during the encounter with Saturn (top-left panel) and the…
Venus’ ‘continents’ suggest surprising link to early Earth
Computational simulation of Venus-like mantle convection. Credit: Nature Geoscience (2024). DOI:10.1038/s41561-024-01485-3 New research has revealed that…
A new study shows how the sun could permanently capture rogue planets
This illustration shows a rogue planet traveling through space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC) Interest in interstellar…
JWST imagery shows light from one of the earliest galaxies is due to continuing bursts from star formations
NIRSpec prism spectra of JADES-GS-z14-0. The central panel shows the 1D spectrum (black) and the associated…
Astronomers use AI to find elusive stars ‘gobbling up’ planets
Credit: NASA, ESSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI). Astronomers have recently found hundreds of “polluted” white dwarf stars…
A new ‘guest star’ will appear in the sky in 2024 − a space scientist explains how nova events work and where to look
Art depicts the Roman Emperor Henry III viewing the supernova explosion of 1054. The stars aren’t…
TIC 441725813 is a hybrid pulsating subdwarf star, study finds
The optical spectrum of TIC 441725813. All the available hydrogen and strong helium lines are shown…