A barrage of space misinformation risks stoking anti-US perceptions in China. A historic lunar mission has…
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New study reveals comet airburst evidence from 12,800 years ago
Shocked quartz grains, with fissures filled with meltglass. Credit: UC Santa Barbara Researchers continue to expand…
Surprising phosphate finding in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample
A tiny fraction of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, shown in microscope…
Looking for atmospheres in the ultimate quest for extraterrestrial life
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) To look for atmospheres around planets outside our solar…
NASA’s Juno probe gets a close-up look at lava lakes on Jupiter’s moon Io
The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured two volcanic plumes rising above the horizon of…
Detective work enables Perseverance Mars rover team to revive SHERLOC instrument
Perseverance’s team used the SHERLOC instrument’s Autofocus and Context Imager to capture this image of its…
Why NASA astronauts are delayed at the space station after Boeing Starliner launch
This photo provided by NASA shows the Starliner spacecraft docked to the Harmony module of the…
NASA, SpaceX launch NOAA’s latest weather satellite
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational…
The space bricks have landed
Inspired by LEGO, ESA scientists have used dust from a meteorite to 3D-print LEGO-style “space bricks”…
Study reveals twisted origin of dead stars’ mysterious ‘heartbeats’
The quantum vortex network model proposed by the study authors. The p-wave inner core (pink) surrounds…