Can Earth survive the Sun’s death? The odds just improved
Scientists have long predicted that when the Sun runs out of fuel in roughly five billion years, Earth…
A Star Dying by the Wrong Rules
How do you watch a star die? If it lives alone, like our Sun, it’s rather more difficult.…
NASA’s TESS Mission Reveals the “Puffiest” Planets Ever Found
Data from NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has revealed two new “super-puff” planets, giant worlds so…
NASA’s Lucy finds a wobbling peanut-shaped asteroid with signs of ancient water
Even relatively small asteroids can have surprisingly eventful histories. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft recently revealed that asteroid Donaldjohanson is…
A Turquoise Tint for the Black Sea
The Black Sea sits at the boundary between Europe and Asia and connects to the Mediterranean Sea via…
Some of the water sitting in your glass is older than the Sun having formed inside interstellar clouds billions of years before the solar system existed
A glass of water looks like one of the most local things in the world. It comes from…
Why Mars May Remain Uninhabitable for Centuries
Realistic image of a completely terraformed Mars. Credit: Daein Ballard Making Mars Earthlike is not impossible in principle,…
13 years and $500 million for a stage adapter? Report justifies NASA cancellations.
In a written response to the report, the chief of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Directorate, Lori Glaze, said the…
Detection of anisotropic cosmic structures on a gigaparsec scale
Weinberg, S. Cosmology (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008). Aghanim, N. et al. Planck 2018 results. V. CMB power spectra…
NASA to Share Latest Moon Base Mission Progress
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host a virtual conversation at 2:30 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 30, to share…
NASA’s aging infrastructure can’t handle Artemis launches without $1 billion in upgrades, watchdog warns
NASA’s plan to return astronauts to the moon and bolster a rapidly growing commercial space industry is facing…
Euclid View of Milky Way Heart Previews Core Survey by NASA’s Roman
A new look at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy by Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency)…