Boeing will try to launch its first crew on Starliner, again

Following checks by engineering teams, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are “go” for launch…

An outlandish molecule may be lurking inside Uranus and Neptune, affecting their magnetic fields

Crystal structures and electronic localization function of H4⁢O⁢F2 and H4⁢O⁢F2·HF. Credit: Physical Review B (2024). DOI:…

First Sentinel-5 instrument leaves RAL Space for satellite integration

​Sentinel-5 in front of the vacuum chamber after a successful test campaign. Credit: STFC RAL Space The…

AI helps scientists understand cosmic explosions

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists at the University of Warwick are using artificial intelligence (AI) to…

A new deep-learning algorithm can find Earth 2.0

Artist’s impression of Proxima Centauri b, which orbits Alpha Centauri C in the triple-star system, Alpha…

Martian meteorites deliver a trove of information on red planet’s structure

The Chassigny meteorite in cross-polarized light. This meteorite is dominated by the mineral olivine. Grains are…

Study suggests dark matter may have collisional properties after all

Credit: Astronomy & Astrophysics (2024). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348000 Contrary to what is established by the standard model,…

New telescope images of Jupiter’s moon Io rival those from spacecraft

The UArizona-managed Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham is the only one of its kind, with…

Dark matter could make our galaxy’s innermost stars immortal

The new population of dark main sequence of stars (top) on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram found by…

X-ray binary Swift J1727.8-1613 has a large relativistic jet, observations show

MAXI light curve of the evolution of Swift J1727.8-1613 at the beginning of its 2023 outburst.…