To demonstrate the potential of artificial intelligence in space, ESA has been working with partners to…
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100+ cracks on heat shield biggest threat to human moon mission
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The damage to the Orion capsule from the Artemis I mission is…
TESS discovers a rocky planet that glows with molten lava as it’s squeezed by its neighbors
Volcanic exoplanet illustration. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Dani Player UC Riverside astrophysicist Stephen Kane had to…
Self-consistent propagation of flux ropes in realistic coronal simulations
Credit: KU Leuven The effects of space weather extend out across our entire solar system, but…
What questions should we ask?
Geysers of ocean water—potentially containing clues to the origin of life—erupt through ice fractures on Saturn’s…
Image: Sulaiman mountain haze
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this oblique photograph of the Sulaiman Mountains in…
Exoplanet WASP-69b has a cometlike tail, helping scientists to learn more about how planets evolve
Located 163 light-years from Earth, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet named WASP-69b offers astrophysicists a window into the…
Research investigates the environment of globular cluster NGC 6355
Interstellar extinction (E(B − V )) map across the observed NGC 6355 field. The black circle…
Astrophysicists discover a novel method for hunting the first stars
Schematic diagram of Pop III TDEs. In a galaxy at z ≳ 10, a Pop III…
NASA and JAXA XRISM spot iron fingerprints in nearby active galaxy
This artist’s concept shows the possible locations of iron revealed in XRISM’s X-ray spectrum of NGC…