How Pluto got its heart

EarthSky’s Deborah Byrd created this 1-minute video summary for you. How Pluto got its heart! New…

Meet Gaia BH3, our galaxy’s most massive stellar black hole

EarthSky’s Deborah Byrd created this 1-minute video summary for you on Gaia BH3! The most massive…

AI for Earth: How NASA’s Artificial Intelligence and Open Science Efforts Combat Climate Change

“To build a foundation model at scale, we realized early on that it’s not feasible for…

Artemis Astronauts Will Deploy New Seismometers on the Moon

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Apollo astronauts set up a collection of lunar seismometers to…

NASA’s Juno gives aerial views of mountain and lava lake on Io

The JunoCam instrument on NASA’s Juno captured this view of Jupiter’s moon Io — with the…

Sols 4159-4160: A Fully Loaded First Sol

3 min read Sols 4159-4160: A Fully Loaded First Sol This image was taken by Chemistry…

Ice Deposits on Ceres Might Only Be a Few Thousand Years Old

The dwarf planet Ceres has some permanently dark craters that hold ice. Astronomers thought the ice…

Researchers quantify the ideal in situ construction method for lunar habitats

Based on the technical mechanisms of bonding and cohesion between particles, regolith solidification and formation technologies…

55 Years Ago: Three Months Until the Moon Landing

The rapid pace of preparations for the first Moon landing continued in April 1969. The successful…

NASA’s Juno Gives Aerial Views of Mountain, Lava Lake on Io

This animation is an artist’s concept of Loki Patera, a lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io,…