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Spain becomes 25th nation to sign NASA's Artemis Accords
Spain on Tuesday became the 25th nation to sign NASA's Artemis Accords, a set of principles that guide space exploration among nations that join the U.S. agency's ambitious plan to...
Scientists observe hypernuclei collective flow in heavy-ion collisions
Scientists from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators in the RHIC-STAR experiment have observed the collective flow of hypernuclei in...
Watch China's Shenzhou 16 astronauts enter Tiangong space station (video)
A new video shows the three astronauts of China's Shenzhou 16 mission entering the Tiangong space station on Tuesday (May 30).
Watch SpaceX Dragon carrying private Ax-2 astronauts return to Earth tonight
The four astronauts of the private Ax-2 mission are scheduled to return to Earth in their SpaceX Dragon capsule tonight (May 30), and you can watch the action live.
Watch SpaceX launch 52 Starlink satellites to orbit early Wednesday
SpaceX plans to launch 52 of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit early Wednesday morning (May 31), and you can watch the action live.
A massive sunspot is currently visible to the unaided eye. Here's how to see it safely before it's gone
A massive new sunspot is visible without using a telescope or binoculars, but you'll still need to protect your eyes when observing it.
Software offers new way to listen for signals from the stars
The Breakthrough Listen Investigation for Periodic Spectral Signals (BLIPSS), led by Akshay Suresh, Cornell doctoral candidate in astronomy, is pioneering a search for periodic signals emanating from the core of...
SpaceX could launch this origami-inspired folding heat shield later this year
A private company has plans to test a revolutionary new heat shield that folds and unfolds like origami, and it could conduct a test flight aboard a SpaceX rocket later...
New record! 17 people are in Earth orbit right now
The total number of people in Earth orbit is now at a record high, though only for a short time. With Monday's (May 29) launch of China's Shenzhou 16 mission,...
Axiom crew on SpaceX Dragon successfully undocks from ISS, heads to Earth
The SpaceX Dragon crewed spacecraft successfully undocked from the International Space Station Tuesday morning and is making its way back to Earth.
A closer look at galaxy M64's outer disk shows that it came from a smaller dwarf galaxy
An international team of astronomers, astrophysicists and cosmologists, has found evidence of galaxy M64's outer disk originating from a smaller, nearby, dwarf galaxy. The team has written a paper describing...
Giant plume spotted erupting from moon of Saturn might contain ingredients for life
NASA’s JWST space telescope has observed a 10,000-kilometer-long plume of water vapor jetting into space from Saturn’s moon Enceladus—the largest spray ever detected from the icy world, which is just one-seventh the diameter...
Europe's JUICE Jupiter probe finishes deploying its instruments
Europe's JUICE spacecraft is now in its full flight configuration, six weeks after the flagship mission launched for Jupiter.
Deriving a general expression for the bispectrum in cosmologies rules out most bouncing models
A team of cosmologists from the University of Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, Jagiellonian University and the University of Geneva derived a general expression for the bispectrum in bouncing cosmologies and then compared...
Webb telescope finds towering plume of water escaping from one of Saturn's moons
Two Southwest Research Institute scientists were part of a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) team that observed a towering plume of water vapor more than 6,000 miles long—roughly the distance...
Webb Maps Surprisingly Large Plume Jetting From Saturn's Moon Enceladus
Enceladus--a tiny, icy moon of Saturn--is one of the most intriguing objects in the search for signs of life beyond our own planet.
Webb maps surprisingly large plume jetting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus
Interaction between moon’s plumes and Saturn’s ring system explored with WebbA water vapour plume from Saturn’s moon Enceladus spanning more than 9600 kilometres — long enough to stretch across the...
Astronomers discover the last three planets the Kepler telescope observed before going dark
More than 5,000 planets are confirmed to exist beyond our solar system. Over half were discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, a resilient observatory that far outlasted its original planned...
Hubble captures jellyfish galaxy JW39
The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies over 900 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices and is...
Antarctic Dry Valleys haven't always been dry, study suggests
When were the Dry Valleys of Antarctica last wet?
Simulations suggest interstellar objects could be captured by Earth's gravity
A quartet of space scientists, two from Carnegie Mellon University and two from Harvard University, has found via simulations that it should be possible for interstellar objects to be captured...
Look Back in Time to the Early Universe!
As the universe expands, it stretches out the waves of light coming from distant galaxies. Now you can measure this stretching, or “redshift” and use it to look back in time. The...
Astronomers discover eight new cataclysmic variables
An international team of astronomers has analyzed the data from the latest phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). They discovered eight new cataclysmic variables (CV) systems. The finding...
First Measurements of Hypernuclei Flow at RHIC
Physicists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have published the first observation of directed flow of hypernuclei -- short-lived, rare nuclei that contain at least one...
Watch private Ax-2 astronauts head back to Earth in SpaceX Dragon today
The four astronauts of the private Ax-2 mission are scheduled to head home to Earth today (May 30), and you can watch the action live.
The ultimate guide to planning epic stargazing road trips in the US southwest
Explore the U.S. Southwest's best sites for stargazing with our helpful guide. From canyons and valleys to snow-capped mountains and world-class observatories.
Hungry black hole shoots out bright X-ray jet 60,000 times hotter than the sun
Observing a powerful feeding black hole in X-ray light has allowed astronomers to peer into the inner workings of what is the brightest quasar seen in the last 9 billion...
Golden Knights dominate Stars, advance to Stanley Cup Final
Star forward William Karlsson scored twice and logged an assist to lead the Vegas Golden Knights to a 6-0 domination of the Dallas Stars and into the 2023 Stanley Cup...