Astronomers Witness a White Dwarf Devouring a Planet
A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...
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Martian moon caught on camera during Hera flyby
Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...
Will life on Earth come to an end anytime soon? The planet's inner core is slowing down and can affect its magnetic field
By analyzing seismic waves from earthquakes from the 1960s, researchers from Peking University deduced that the Earth's inner ...
Dawn probe
Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...
Satellite images reveal how Andalusia's forests have changed over the past three decades
The first Landsat series satellite was launched by NASA in the summer of 1972 with the aim of tracking changes in the Earth's ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens to hit Earth, but we can still hit it — for science!
Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn't likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to ...
A tiny moon photobombs Mars as Europe’s Hera mission swoops past
Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...
Webb telescope's images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," NASA says
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
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Firefly Aerospace successfully completes 14 days of surface operations on the Moon
Longest commercial Moon mission using Firefly’s composites-intensive Blue Ghost lander completes more than 346 hours of ...
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Innovative Dutch Technology Captures Historic Image of Mars and Deimos During ESA’s Hera Mission flyby
The worldwide tech leading Dutch firm, cosine, is making a big impact in space exploration. The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission by providing a ...
How did Earth get such a strange moon? Exploring the giant impact theory
The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...