NASA landed an ice-drilling robot on the moon south successfully
An illustration of the private Nova-C moon lander built by Intuitive Machines with NASA’s Polar Resources Ice-Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) attached to the spacecraft. (Image credit: Intuitive Machines) NASA…
Don’t be fooled – A giant space rock instead of a small planet is flying to Earth
The ALMA ground-based radio telescope helped astronomers refine the albedo and diameter of the nucleus of the giant comet C/2014 UN271 Bernardinelli-Bernstein from the Oort cloud. It…
Should not exist – “Giant arc” stretches 3.3 billion light years across the universe
A newly discovered crescent of galaxies spanning 3.3 billion light-years is one of the world’s largest known structures, challenging some of astronomers’ most fundamental assumptions about the…
Danger is near – Scientists have discovered more than 30,000 asteroids around the Earth
We have now discovered 30,039 near-Earth asteroids in the solar system—rocky bodies orbiting the sun on a path that brings them close to Earth’s orbit. The majority…
In only 24 hours, A massive sunspot doubled in size and is now directly pointing at Earth
A massive sunspot that has doubled in size in less than 24 hours is currently facing Earth, which means it is expected to unleash a solar flare…
BREAKING: Our galaxy has been “seen” for the first time
It’s a frequent cliche to say that we can’t see the forest for the trees, but we might just as easily say that we can’t see the…
Earth has just started emitting Giant Magnetic Waves from its Core
Earth’s interior is a far from quiet place. Deep below our surface activities, the planet rumbles with activity, from plate tectonics to convection currents that circulate through…
This X-Ray View of The Night Sky Reveals a Whole New Way of Seeing The Universe
Based on this recently released snapshot of the night sky captured by NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), we can safely assume Superman gets no sleep…
Keep your brains – NASA shares extremely creepy “realistic sounds” of black holes
If you really want to intensify your Monday existential dread, NASA has made the sound a black hole makes available. The Alien catchphrase, “In space no one…
Rose Ferreira: the astrophysicist who went from living on the street to studying the stars
Anyone looking at Rose Ferreira, an astronomy student at Arizona State University and a NASA intern, cannot imagine the road she has taken. As a child, the…