NASA’s Webb Telescope Rules Out Two New Dyson Sphere Candidates
The latest Swedish-led search for technosignatures in the form of Dyson Spheres has again come up empty-handed. The…
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Releases New Map Of Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe is a large place, yet despite it being mostly empty space, there are still a lot…
Titan is wider than Mercury, operates a complete methane weather cycle, and contains hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all Earth’s known oil and gas reserves. It is the only known world beyond Earth where you could stand beneath clouds beside a calm lake—provided you remained sealed inside a heated, oxygenated suit.
Titan is one of those places where a list of plain facts starts to sound like a pitch.…
Tidal tomography reveals a thermal anomaly beneath Mars’s crustal dichotomy
Modelling the time-varying gravity field The gravitational potential for Mars, U(r, λ, ϕ), can be expressed as a sum over…
How to See the Partial Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on August 27
If you missed the spectacular solar eclipse earlier this month, you have a chance to catch another stunning…
‘Blood moon’ lunar eclipse will cross U.S. weeks after solar eclipse — here’s when to watch
Two weeks after a total solar eclipse wowed skywatchers in southern Europe, a near-total lunar eclipse is set…
Could the Northern Lights be visible this week? What to know – NBC Chicago
Could the Northern Lights be visible this week as the U.S. prepares for a partial lunar eclipse? It’s…
NASA Sets Spacewalk for Station Maintenance, Live Coverage Planned
NASA will provide coverage as two astronauts step outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to…
Building Foresight for Earth Science, featuring Lindsey Jacobson
NASA’s Earth-observing satellite missions track dozens of features of a changing planet — aerosols, sea levels, land cover,…
NASA Johnson Pilots Chase Moon’s Shadow for Eclipse Science
During the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse over Europe, scientists aimed to study a long-standing mystery: why the Sun’s outer…
Astronomers discover hot watery exoplanet destined to be swallowed by its star
Astronomers have discovered a new ocean world outside the solar system that orbits extremely close to its parent…
Heat shield under fire photo of the day for Aug. 26, 2026
At the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, researchers are testing the capsule heat shield for the Draco…