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Space.com

The solar eclipse map was designed by a member of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS), Michala Garrison, who has a background in geography and cartography. The goal of the map is …

Space.com

Astronomers hunting for water on alien planets have a new tool in their arsenal. This comes in the form of a water-hunting technique that uses an exoplanet’s size to estimate how much …

BBC News

The crew of the final Apollo mission, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, spent the longest on the lunar surface of any astronauts so far: 75 hours in total. Cernan likened it to a camping expedition – they ate and slept, in hammocks, inside the compact …

Phys.Org

For the first time, scientists at the University of Sydney and the University of Basel in Switzerland have demonstrated the ability to manipulate and identify small numbers of interacting photons—packets of light energy—with high correlation.

Popular Science

We know how dark energy behaves, but its nature is still a mystery. … The universe has a dark side—it’s filled with dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is the unseen mass floating around galaxies …

Phys.Org

Liquid water is one of the most important ingredients for the emergence of life as we know it on Earth. Researchers of the ORIGINS Cluster from the fields of astrophysics, astrochemistry and biochemistry have now determined in a novel, …

The Weather Channel

Although the region has long been thought to be volcanically active, there was no direct evidence of recent activity. While scrutinising Magellan radar images, scientists identified a volcanic vent associated with Maat Mons that changed significantly …

Smithsonian

Bright streaks observed Friday were jettisoned equipment from the International Space Station re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. Sarah Kuta. Daily Correspondent. March 20, 2023 2:12 p.m.. Computer-generated image of objects in Earth’s orbit …

Phys.Org

New research conducted as part of the science verification phase of the Visible Spectropolarimeter (ViSP) instrument at the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope is the first to use data from this instrument.

Forbes

A 200-foot (58 meters) wide asteroid is set to fly much closer to our planet than the distance to the moon this Saturday. While asteroid 2023 DZ2 poses no threat of impacting Earth during this visit, there is a miniscule chance it could hit us when it …