Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Up to 60% of near-Earth objects could be dark comets, mysterious asteroids…
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Astronauts confident Boeing space capsule can safely return them to Earth, despite failures
In this image from video provided by NASA, astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore give…
Deep-mapping the night sky for hot stars
UVEX is NASA’s next ‘Astrophysics Medium-Class Explorer’ mission designed to survey the entire sky in the…
Researchers more precisely calculate how much faster time passes on the moon
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of physicists with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California…
Modeling study proposes a diamond layer at the core-mantle boundary on Mercury
Proposed scenario for the formation of diamond at Mercury’s core-mantle boundary. (a) Crystallization of the carbon-saturated…
Study investigates the nature of very-high energy gamma-ray source TeV J2032+4130
Spectral energy distribution of HAWC J2031+415. Credit: Alfaro et al., 2024. Using the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov…
XL-Calibur telescope launched to study black holes
Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis have launched XL-Calibur, a balloon-borne telescope, to unlock the…
Auroras caused by head-on blows to Earth’s magnetic field could damage critical infrastructure, scientists say
Credit: Harrison Haines from Pexels Auroras have inspired myths and portents for millennia—but only now, with…
Increasing the understanding of early life on Earth could shape the search for life on other planets
Rocks along the shoreline of Lake Salda in Turkey were formed over time by microbes that…
Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket blasts off for first time
Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket ahead of blastoff in French Guiana. Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket blasted…