Should we put a frozen backup of Earth’s life on the moon?

Shackleton crater, at the moon’s south pole, has areas of permanent shadow LROC/ShadowCam/NASA/KARI/ASU A backup of…

Predicting Solar Storms Before They Leave the Sun

When giant solar storms hit Earth, they trigger beautiful auroral displays high in Earth’s atmosphere. There’s…

Discovery of ancient stars on the stellar thin disk of the Milky Way

Rotational motion of young (blue) and old (red) stars similar to the Sun (orange). Credit: Background…

Glimpses of Hera’s target asteroids inspire new science

Space Safety 31/07/2024 13 views 0 likes As ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence completes its…

NASA counting down to most powerful human spaceflight ever

Credit: Pixabay from Pexels The launch clock isn’t set yet, but the hardware is lined up…

NASA’s First-Ever Quantum Memory Made at Glenn Research Center

Bringing bright minds together has once again proven to be the key to unlocking the mysteries…

Additional planet orbiting the star TOI-1408 discovered

Photometry from TESS for TOI-1408 c. Credit: Korth et al., 2024. Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

How to SUPPPPRESS Light From a Star That Is Ten Billion Times Brighter Than Its Habitable Exoplanet

Searching for Earth 2.0 has been an obsession of almost all exoplanet hunters since the discipline’s…

Mercury may have a 10-mile-thick layer of diamonds

View larger. | This enhanced-color image of Mercury comes from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft. The colors bring…

Ancient life on Mars? Rover finds intriguing ‘leopard spots’

View larger. | The Perseverance rover found this rock – nicknamed Cheyava Falls – on Mars…