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How and why NASA gives a name to every spot it studies on Mars

1 week ago from Physorg

Martian maps are full of monikers recognizing places on Earth, explorers, and even cartoon characters.

CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) captures charge-sign dependent cosmic ray modulation

1 week ago from Physorg

The movement of cosmic ray particles across space, such as electrons and protons, is influenced by the sun's magnetic field, causing fluctuations in the intensity of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs)...

The UArizona 12-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak Is Part of Something Much Bigger: the Event Horizon Telescope

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

In the past few years, scientists with the Event Horizon Telescope consortium have managed to successfully image not just one, but two supermassive black holes using a technique known as...

Radiotelescopio de Kitt Peak se une a la red del gran Telescopio Event Horizon

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

En los ultimos anos, los cientificos del consorcio del Telescopio Event Horizon lograron obtener imagenes no solo de uno, sino de dos agujeros negros supermasivos utilizando una tecnica conocida como...

Crops grown without sunlight could help feed astronauts bound for Mars

1 week ago from Science NOW

Riverside, California— For the first astronauts to visit Mars, what to eat on their 3-year mission will be one of the most critical questions. It’s not just a matter of taste. According...

Boeing sued for allegedly stealing intellectual property related to NASA's Artemis moon rocket

1 week ago from Space.com

Aerospace giant Boeing faces a federal lawsuit accusing it of intellectual property theft and misuse of critical components involved in assembling NASA's Artemis moon rocket.

California's Gov. Newsom wants constitutional amendment for gun safety

1 week ago from UPI

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday proposed a 28th U.S. constitutional amendment that would give gun-safety measures constitutional protection while preserving Second Amendment rights.

Enormous structure discovered near doomed galaxy group is the longest galactic 'tail' ever seen

1 week ago from Live Science

The 1.5-million-light-year-long gas trail was caused by a group of galaxies moving 3 million miles per hour

Long space missions take a toll on astronaut brains, study finds

1 week ago from Space.com

Long spaceflights can cause astronauts' ventricles — cavities in the brain that hold cerebrospinal fluid — to enlarge by up to 25%. And it apparently takes years for the swelling...

Monitoring night-time cloud cover at the Muztagh-ata site

1 week ago from Physorg

For optical astronomical observatories, the cloud coverage during night-time directly determines the available observing time (AOT) of a telescope, the most basic parameter in astronomical observations.

New keen-sighted satellite will view distant stars, assist Webb telescope

1 week ago from Physorg

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful telescope ever launched into space, will soon get a new "sidekick"—a small but nimble satellite that borrows its name from a...

Watch: Assassin Zoe Saldaña works for Nicole Kidman in 'Special Ops: Lioness'

1 week ago from UPI

Paramount+ released the teaser for Taylor Sheridan's latest series, "Special Ops: Lioness," starring Zoe Saldaña, Nicole Kidman and Morgan Freeman.

Brain cavities that swell in space may need at least 3 years to recover

1 week ago from Sciencenews.org

Spacing out spaceflights may benefit astronauts’ brains. While outside Earth’s atmosphere, fluid-filled chambers in the brains of astronauts tend to adapt to microgravity by expanding. But after a space mission, these structures might...

Scientists Make Best-Yet Map of Solar System's Interstellar Boundaries

1 week ago from Scientific American

Researchers have gained a new view of the journey ahead for the twin Voyager spacecraft and other probes bound on one-way trips into interstellar space

New tool 'cleans' ever-increasing satellite trails from Hubble photos

1 week ago from Space.com

Scientists have developed a new tool that can keep Hubble Space Telescope photos free of the bright streaks caused by fast-moving satellites.

Frequent lengthy space travel takes a toll on astronauts' brains, study shows

1 week ago from Physorg

As we enter a new era in space travel, a study looking at how the human brain reacts to traveling outside Earth's gravity suggests frequent flyers should wait three years...

Research sheds light on new model of cosmological dark matter

1 week ago from Physorg

Newcastle University researchers used insights gained from the study of ultracold atomic Bose Einstein condensates to analyze the behavior of fuzzy dark matter, a new model for cosmological dark matter...

Researchers detect elusive planets with CHEOPS

1 week ago from Physorg

With the help of the CHEOPS space telescope an international team of European astronomers managed to clearly identify the existence of four new exoplanets. The four mini-Neptunes are smaller and...

New study further narrows the search for elusive pairs of monster black holes

1 week ago from Physorg

Although astrophysicists have never sensed supermassive black hole binary systems, a galaxy-sized detector composed of dead stars is hot on their trail.

Inside Blue Abyss’s plan to build super-deep pools for astronauts and military bots

1 week ago from PopSci

Ard Su VLADIMIR PLETSER stands in front of an eclectic audience—a group of people attending the Analog Astronaut Conference in Arizona. Analog astronauts are folks who simulate the lives of spacefarers, for science,...

Julianne Hough, Skylar Astin to host Tonys live pre-show

1 week ago from UPI

"Dancing with the Stars" alum Julianne Hough and "So Help Me Todd" star Skylar Astin are set to host "The Tony Awards: Act One," a live pre-show with exclusive content.

Repeated signals from the center of the Milky Way could be aliens saying hello, new study claims

1 week ago from Space.com

A new search for extraterrestrial life has scientists looking inward — toward the center of our galaxy.

Brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen, the largest known explosion since Big Bang, has a unique jet structure unlike any other

1 week ago from Space.com

The gamma-ray burst dubbed "the BOAT," or the brightest of all time, has a unique jet structure that may explain its extreme nature and why its afterglow persisted for so...

Cheops explores mysterious warm mini-Neptunes

1 week ago from European Space Agency

Image: ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops confirmed the existence of four warm exoplanets orbiting four stars in our Milky Way. These exoplanets have sizes between Earth and Neptune and orbit their stars closer than...

25 years of Copernicus

1 week ago from European Space Agency

Video: 00:05:05 25 years ago, Copernicus set out to transform the way we see our planet. It is the largest environmental monitoring programme in the world. Learn more about the Copernicus...

Researchers discover chemical evidence for pair-instability supernova from a very massive first star

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

The first stars illuminated the Universe during the Cosmic Dawn and put an end to the cosmic "dark ages" that followed the Big Bang. However, the distribution of their mass...

Schools, museums, libraries can apply to receive artifacts from NASA

1 week ago from UPI

NASA is giving STEM programs across the country the opportunity to receive historical objects from the agency to be used for educational purposes.

Turkish lira plummets as Erdogan reshuffles Cabinet

1 week ago from UPI

Turkey's lira plummeted more than 7% to record lows Wednesday in a second massive sell-off since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected last month.