Space Exploration News
March 5, 2025
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Mar. 4, 2025 — The discovery of new exoplanets can help scientists understand how planets form and ...
Mar. 4, 2025 — The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show '3 Body Problem.' There's no problem, however, with ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists are designing a satellite and instruments capable of detecting space debris as small as 1 centimeter, less than one-half inch. Debris that small, which cannot currently be detected from the ground, can damage satellites and other ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers don't see is a swarm of nearly three dozen small ...
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Feb. 25, 2025 — On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera blasted off to the Moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission. This aims to map sources of water on the Moon to shed light on the lunar water ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — Astronauts often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other inflammatory conditions while traveling in space. A new study suggests that ...
Feb. 26, 2025 — Researchers are looking underfoot to uncover the mysterious past of Mars: Martian regoliths in the soil. Their water storage capabilities may help us understand the change in water on Mars over ...
Feb. 25, 2025 — New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact of the asteroid with ...
Feb. 25, 2025 — A new study shows a water-rich mineral could explain the planet's color -- and hint at its wetter, more habitable ...
Feb. 25, 2025 — Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers investigate the extreme weather patterns and atmospheric properties of exoplanet LTT 9779 b. New JWST observations with NIRISS reveal a dynamic ...
Feb. 25, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, approximately 14 million years ago. This journey ...
Feb. 24, 2025 — Mars may have once been home to sun-soaked, sandy beaches with gentle, lapping waves according to a new ...
Feb. 20, 2025 — Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...
Feb. 18, 2025 — Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of ...
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Feb. 18, 2025 — Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new way to explore how massive stars interact and evolve, confirming the unique ...
'Out of Science Fiction': First 3D Observations of an Exoplanet's Atmosphere Reveal a Unique Climate
Feb. 18, 2025 — Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...
Feb. 14, 2025 — Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about the ...
Feb. 14, 2025 — A unique dataset of Type Ia Supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of the ...
Feb. 14, 2025 — As more satellites, telescopes, and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for service spacecraft to reach them safely. Researchers are developing a ...
Feb. 13, 2025 — Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as singularities, i.e. points where the laws of physics break down. Identifying ...
Feb. 13, 2025 — Jumping workouts could help astronauts prevent the type of cartilage damage they are likely to endure during lengthy missions to Mars and the Moon, a new study suggests. The researchers found that ...
Feb. 13, 2025 — Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...
Feb. 13, 2025 — New findings explain the Phoenix cluster's mysterious starburst. Data confirm the cluster is actively cooling and able to generate a huge amount of stellar fuel on its ...
Feb. 12, 2025 — Scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force. Understanding tidal ...
Feb. 12, 2025 — Scientists have just detected a neutrino that is thirty times more energetic than any previously detected anywhere in the world. This exceptional discovery opens up new perspectives for understanding ...
Feb. 10, 2025 — Euclid, the European Space Agency's dark Universe detective, has made an astonishing discovery -- right in our cosmic ...
Feb. 7, 2025 — 'Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new ...
Feb. 6, 2025 — Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be ...
Feb. 6, 2025 — A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, shows that the physics of alien oceans could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from reaching places where we can detect ...
Feb. 6, 2025 — Astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have ...
Feb. 5, 2025 — Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial ...
Feb. 5, 2025 — There's a 26 per cent annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight area, according to a recent study. While the chance of debris hitting an ...
Feb. 4, 2025 — A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of satellites and space ...
Feb. 4, 2025 — Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- Einstein Probe Catches X-Ray Odd Couple
- 'Out of Science Fiction': First 3D Observations of an Exoplanet's Atmosphere Reveal a Unique Climate
Friday, February 14, 2025
- Deposits Found on a Nearby Asteroid Point to Salty Water in the Outer Solar System
- 'Game Changing' Release of Type Ia Supernovae Data May Hold Key to the History of the Universe
- New Research Sheds Light on Using Multiple CubeSats for in-Space Servicing and Repair Missions
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Creation of Black Holes Without Singularities Through Pure Gravity
- Jumping Workouts Could Help Astronauts on the Moon and Mars, Study in Mice Suggests
- Astronomers Gauge Livability of Exoplanets Orbiting White Dwarf Stars
- Phoenix Galaxy Cluster in the Act of Extreme Cooling
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Tidal Energy Measurements Help Scientists Understand Titan's Composition, Orbital History
- First Detection of an Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino
Monday, February 10, 2025
Friday, February 7, 2025
Thursday, February 6, 2025
- Multinational Research Project Shows How Life on Earth Can Be Measured from Space
- Alien Ocean Could Hide Signs of Life from Spacecraft
- Largest Radio Jet Ever Seen in the Early Universe
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
- Meteorite Discovery Challenges Long-Held Theories on Earth's Missing Elements
- One in Four Chance Per Year That Rocket Junk Will Enter Busy Airspace
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
- AI-Driven Performance Prediction Model to Advance Space Electric Propulsion Technology?
- Wobbling Stars Reveal Hidden Companions in Gaia Data
- Straight Shot: Hubble Investigates Galaxy With Nine Rings
Friday, January 31, 2025
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- The Hidden Power of the Smallest Microquasars
- Life's Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu Samples
- Exploring Mysteries of Asteroid Bennu
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
- Moon Is Not as 'geologically Dead' As Previously Thought
- Follow the Water: Searching for a Lunar Oasis
- A Super-Earth Laboratory for Searching Life Elsewhere in the Universe
- Explaining Persistent Hydrogen in Mars' Atmosphere
Monday, January 27, 2025
- Innovation 'sifts' Space for Mysteries
- Dwarf Planet Ceres: Building Blocks of Life Delivered from Space
- How Titan Maintains Its Atmosphere
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
- Astronomers Thought They Understood Fast Radio Bursts: A Recent One Calls That Into Question
- Extreme Supersonic Winds Measured on Planet Outside Our Solar System
- First Fast Radio Burst Traced to Old, Dead, Elliptical Galaxy
Friday, January 17, 2025
Thursday, January 16, 2025
- This Tiny Galaxy Is Answering Some Big Questions
- NASA's Pandora Mission One Step Closer to Probing Alien Atmospheres
- Astronomers Observe Real-Time Formation of Black Hole Jets for the First Time
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
- NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble's Discovery of a New Universe
- This Quasar May Have Helped Turn the Lights on for the Universe
- Super-Earth Vs. Sub-Neptune? The Winner Is Super-Venus!
- Not All Hot Jupiters Orbit Solo
- Three Tiny 'stellar-Ghost-Town' Galaxies Discovered
Monday, January 13, 2025
- Hubble Reveals Surprising Spiral Shape of Galaxy Hosting Young Jet
- NASA's Hubble Tracks Down a 'blue Lurker' Among Stars
- New Study Unveils Breakthrough in Understanding Cosmic Particle Accelerators
- X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole Accelerate Mysteriously
Friday, January 10, 2025
- Light, Flexible and Radiation-Resistant: Organic Solar Cells for Space
- 'What Is That?' Scientists Explain White Patch That Appears Near Northern Lights
- New Data on Atmosphere from Earth to the Edge of Space
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Monday, January 6, 2025
- Beyond the 'Dragon Arc', a Treasure Trove of Unseen Stars
- Citizen Science Reveals That Jupiter's Colorful Clouds Are Not Made of Ammonia Ice
Friday, January 3, 2025
- Research May Boost Next-Generation Space Rockets
- The Carbon in Our Bodies Probably Left the Galaxy and Came Back on Cosmic 'conveyer Belt'
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Friday, December 20, 2024
- Mysteries of Icy Ocean Worlds
- Dark Energy 'doesn't Exist' So Can't Be Pushing 'lumpy' Universe Apart
- ESA and NASA Satellites Deliver First Joint Picture of Greenland Ice Sheet Melting
- Clever Trick to Cook Stars Like Christmas Pudding Detected for First Time
Thursday, December 19, 2024
- First Results from 2021 Rocket Launch Shed Light on Aurora's Birth
- Best Glimpse Ever Into Icy Planetesimals of the Early Solar System
- Origins of Lunar Water and Its Connection to Earth's Early History
- Scientists Solving Meteorological Mysteries on Mars
- New Evidence Exists for Hidden Water Reservoirs and Rare Magmas on Ancient Mars
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
- Supermassive Black Holes Halt Rapid Construction in an Ancient Celestial City
- Uncovering a Centaur's Tracks: Scientists Examine Unique Asteroid-Comet Hybrid
- Survey of 26,000 Dead Stars Confirms Key Details of Extreme Stellar Behavior
- Massive Black Hole in the Early Universe Spotted Taking a 'nap' After Overeating
- A 'remelting' Of Lunar Surface Adds a Wrinkle to Mystery of Moon's True Age
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
- Brain Cells Remain Healthy After a Month on the International Space Station, but Mature Faster Than Brain Cells on Earth
- Event Horizon Telescope: Moving Towards a Close-Up of a Black Hole and Its Jets
- Binary Star Found Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole
Monday, December 16, 2024
- New Paper Examines the Elusive Nature of Liquid Brines on Mars
- Does the Exoplanet Trappist-1 B Have an Atmosphere After All?
- Anthropologists Call for Tracking and Preservation of Human Artifacts on Mars
Friday, December 13, 2024
- Astrophysicists Capture Astonishing Images of Gamma-Ray Flare from Supermassive Black Hole M87
- Heart of Jovian Moon's Volcanic Rage
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Monday, December 9, 2024
- NASA's Hubble Celebrates Decade of Tracking Outer Planets
- Mars' Infamous Dust Storms Can Engulf the Entire Planet: A New Study Examines How
- Space-Time Crystals, an Important Step Toward New Optical Materials
- Universe Expansion Study Confirms Challenge to Cosmic Theory
- Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt
Thursday, December 5, 2024
- Astronomers Witness the in Situ Spheroid Formation in Distant Submillimetre-Bright Galaxies
- Researchers Use Data from Citizen Scientists to Uncover the Mysteries of a Blue Low-Latitude Aurora
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Monday, December 2, 2024
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
- Team Unlocks New Insights on Pulsar Signals
- Astronomers May Have Discovered the Answer to a Mysterious Stellar Event
- Magnetic Tornado Is Stirring Up the Haze at Jupiter's Poles