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Scientists simulate cosmic crashes to test whether icy moons gain or lose their ability to sustain life
Even the biggest cosmic crashes don't destroy the hidden oceans on icy moons, new simulations show.
Closing the space gap: A more precise way to measure distance between quasar pairs
A new method pins quasar pair distances to within half a million light-years, down from millions.
NASA’s Moon orbiter finds a 728-foot crater that wasn’t there before
A 728-foot crater appeared on the Moon — the biggest new crater ever found in the solar system.
The Antenna That Folds Its Way to a 73 dB Boost
Folding an antenna like origami unlocked 73 dB of performance — no enlargement needed.
New krypton-88 data narrow a key gap in stellar strontium models
A first-ever experiment reveals how stars make strontium, solving a mystery in stellar models.
A glimpse of the solar system's origins: Striking details on the molecules inside a meteorite
A 5.5-billion-year-old space rock contains tens of thousands of molecules, just as complex as
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida
A $100 detector can see invisible particles raining down from space
A $100 pocket device lets anyone see invisible cosmic particles raining through our bodies.
JWST’s mysterious little red dots may be black holes growing at incredible speeds
JWST's mysterious red dots may be black holes growing dozens of times faster than any today.
NASA’s New Horizons spots signs of liquid nitrogen flowing on Pluto
Pluto, a frozen dwarf planet, may have liquid nitrogen flowing beneath its icy crust.
Newfound 'baby' planet smashes record for youngest known world
A planet under a million years old is the youngest world ever found, still growing in its dusty
Scientists “truly astonished” by discovery that challenges Earth’s origin story
Earth's building blocks may all come from the inner Solar System, not from beyond Jupiter.
Moon to Mars | NASA's Artemis Program - NASA
Four astronauts flew 252,756 miles from Earth, the farthest humans have ever traveled in space.
Kennedy Space Center
CubeSat instrument extends solar storm warnings 10x
A tiny CubeSat now warns of solar storms 10 times earlier than before.
Africa: Growing Budgets Show Africa Keen to Defend Its Place in the Space Race - allAfrica.com
Africa's space budgets tripled since 2018, and 20+ nations now have their own space programs.
Africa
Dense galaxies are carving out a bubble in the early universe
JWST spotted 18 early galaxies packed 4 times closer than average, blowing a bubble that lit up the
JWST ruled out finding tiny moons around an exoplanet—that's great news
JWST can spot tiny moons around faraway planets — if it looks in the same place over and over.
Astronomers unmask a supernova impostor
A star teased astronomers for a decade — but a hidden companion, not an explosion, is behind its
Masked tectonic structures suggest Mercury contracted 40% more than its visible scars alone indicate
Mercury actually shrank up to 30% more than its scars show, scientists found.
Gravitational-wave analysis narrows the search for black hole impostors
A new analysis used ripples in spacetime to prove a cosmic object was a real black hole, not a
NASA's next great observatory could spot oceans on distant worlds
We've found over 5,500 exoplanets but never a real ocean on another world. NASA may change that.