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Weird alien world may be a planetary sauna
Stressful day at the office? Muscles need soothing? A trip to a newly described exoplanet—featuring a thick saunalike steam atmosphere—may be in order. Of course, it would be a long trip for a...
After outcry, disgraced sexual harasser removed from astronomy manuscript
Within 2 weeks after a preprint was posted to arXiv on 31 March, outrage erupted on Twitter and multiple co-authors requested their names be removed. The issue wasn’t the science, which focused...
After outcry, disgraced sexual harasser removed from astronomy manuscript
Within 2 weeks after a preprint was posted to arXiv on 31 March, outrage erupted on Twitter and multiple co-authors requested their names be removed. The issue wasn’t the science, which focused...
Damage delays restart of Italy’s giant gravitational wave detector
Later this month, physicists will resume their hunt for astrophysical monsters: black holes and neutron stars going bump in the dark and emitting ripples in space called gravitational waves. But one of the...
Quakes and blasts help scientists understand Earth’s elusive inner core
About the size of Pluto, Earth’s inner core is made of solid iron and helps power the magnetic field that protects life from harmful space radiation. For more than a...
News at a glance: An ancient Mars river, blood screening rules, and sex-research funds blocked
PLANETARY SCIENCE Mars rover spots signs of big river NASA’s Perseverance rover has snapped images indicating a river on Mars once flowed fast and furiously, scientists said last week. The waterway was part...
In first, astronomers see star engulf planet
When a star swallows a planet, does it belch? Leave crumbs? Get bigger? No one could say for sure because no one had witnessed it — until now. Researchers from the Harvard...
NASA’s Webb Takes Closest Look Yet at Mysterious Planet
Portal origin URL: NASA’s Webb Takes Closest Look Yet at Mysterious PlanetPortal origin nid: 487116Published: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 10:39Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A science team gains new insight...
Images From NASA’s Perseverance May Show Record of Wild Martian River
Portal origin URL: Images From NASA’s Perseverance May Show Record of Wild Martian RiverPortal origin nid: 487134Published: Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 07:36Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Evidence left in rocks...
Hubble Captures a Light-Bending Galaxy Cluster
Portal origin URL: Hubble Captures a Light-Bending Galaxy ClusterPortal origin nid: 487121Published: Friday, May 12, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A vast galaxy cluster lurks in the center of...
NASA’s Webb Finds Water, and a New Mystery, in Rare Main Belt Comet
Portal origin URL: NASA’s Webb Finds Water, and a New Mystery, in Rare Main Belt CometPortal origin nid: 487186Published: Monday, May 15, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Using Webb’s...
NASA’s Juno Mission Getting Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Io
Portal origin URL: NASA’s Juno Mission Getting Closer to Jupiter’s Moon IoPortal origin nid: 487195Published: Monday, May 15, 2023 - 12:01Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The gas giant orbiter has flown...
Extra! Extra! The Daily Minor Planet Needs Your Help Spotting Asteroids
Image credit: Catalina Sky Survey This just in: NASA’s new Daily Minor Planet project seeks your help discovering and tracking asteroids—in a dazzling new data set. Remember asteroids, those lumps of rock tumbling...
NASA’s Spitzer, TESS Find Potentially Volcano-Covered Earth-Size World
Portal origin URL: NASA’s Spitzer, TESS Find Potentially Volcano-Covered Earth-Size WorldPortal origin nid: 487212Published: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet, or...
NASA Releases New Solar Eclipse Educational Materials
Portal origin URL: NASA Releases New Solar Eclipse Educational MaterialsPortal origin nid: 487254Published: Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 12:30Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: To help learners of all ages understand how...
Hubble Peers into a Glistening Star Cluster
Portal origin URL: Hubble Peers into a Glistening Star ClusterPortal origin nid: 487237Published: Friday, May 19, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The densely packed globular cluster NGC 6325 glistens...
50 years ago, cosmic rays may have caused Apollo astronauts to see lights
Light flashes no danger for short space flights – Science News, May 12, 1973 The light flashes and streaks seen by [Apollo] astronauts have long been attributed to high-energy, heavy cosmic particles (HZE)...
The first radiation belt outside the solar system has been spotted
For the first time, astronomers have spotted a band of radiation surrounding an object outside our solar system. A belt of energetic electrons encircles a Jupiter-sized body about 18 light-years from Earth, astronomers...
TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets could harbour significant amounts of water
All seven worlds circling a red dwarf could be habitable, say astronomers
Webb finds water, and a new mystery, in rare main-belt comet
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has enabled another long-sought scientific breakthrough, this time for Solar System scientists studying the origins of the water that has made life on Earth...
Webb finds water, and a new mystery, in rare main-belt comet
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has enabled another long-sought scientific breakthrough, this time for Solar System scientists studying the origins of the water that has made life on Earth...
Origami heat shield: reusable for reentries
Image: Origami heat shield: reusable for reentries
Earth from Space: Oslo, Norway
Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Oslo, Norway’s capital and largest city, and host of the 2023 Global Space Conference on Climate Change, taking place on 23–25 May.
ESA recruits – and not only astronauts. Apply now!
In 2023, ESA will be recruiting over 200 new colleagues to join our teams and support our mission of the peaceful exploration and use of space for the benefit of...
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NASA picks Bezos' Blue Origin to build lunar landers for moonwalkers
Jeff Bezos' rocket company has won a NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon, two years after it lost out to SpaceX.
Radiant protostars and shadowy clouds clash in stellar nursery
The massive, star-forming interstellar cloud Lupus 3 is captured with the 570-megapixel US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NSF's NOIRLab's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The dazzling...
New images released by Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope released eight new images of the sun, previewing the exciting science underway at the world's most powerful ground-based solar telescope....