JWST Identifies LAP1-B as the Most Chemically Primitive Galaxy on Record: Chemistry of Universe’s First Stars
A tiny galaxy observed just 800 million years after the Big Bang has yielded the strongest observational evidence…
Scientists studied rare meteorites that survived millions of miles to reach Earth and found a shortlist of asteroids worth mining
Fragile and chemically complex, carbonaceous meteorites rarely survive the long fall to Earth intact. When they do, they…
NASA Satellite Images Show Huge Colored Plumes Staining the Ocean
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What Are the Closest Galaxies to Earth?
A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter. The observable universe holds…
India’s Mars orbiter cost less than the movie Gravity and reached its destination on the first attempt, and what that says about who actually owns the future of space exploration.
In November 2013, the Indian Space Research Organisation launched its Mars Orbiter Mission from Sriharikota on a Polar…
Saturn’s rings are disappearing — NASA estimates they’ll be gone within 100 million years — which means we happen to be alive during the brief window of cosmic history when Saturn has rings at all
The figure most people remember from the 2018 ring rain study is the Olympic swimming pool. Saturn, according…
Peak Milky Way viewing begins in Arab World
JEDDAH: The Arab world has entered a peak period for Milky Way observation, a window that will remain…
650-foot mega-tsunami is captured by satellites and sends seismic waves around the world for nine days
For years, Greenland’s rugged eastern coast sat in near silence. Then, in an instant, seismic sensors around the…
Science breakthrough: NASA logs record-breaking solar burst as scientists forecast dangerous space weather events
NASA has logged a record-breaking solar burst as scientists forecast dangerous space-weather events. The longest solar radio burst…
Spacecraft to probe how Earth fends off raging solar winds
A joint European-Chinese spacecraft is set to blast off Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and…
Intuitive Machines is buying a global ground-station network for $49.6 million after landing two probes on their sides — and the sequencing tells you which moats the CLPS contracting model rewards first
On the same week NASA opened bidding on its eighth Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order, the Houston-based…
Geologists drilled a very deep hole in West Antarctica and retrieved rocks that date back 23 million years, the deepest sample of its kind
Out on the edge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a group of scientists spent weeks living in…