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Space.com

There’s a whole universe out there that we can’t see — without a little help from our machines, that is. Comments (0). Even if you were to theoretically travel to the darkest desert on Earth, wait until after sundown and peer up at the night sky, …

Space.com

Scientists studied the Squid Galaxy, Messier 77, to determine how chemicals swirl around its shrouded central black hole. Comments (0). a spiral galaxy with an orange/yellow center and arms with pink and blue. An illustration shows the distribution of …

NPR

The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful telescope ever put into space. As such, its helping usher in a new era of astrophysics. Astronomers can now study farther, earlier galaxies than ever before. “If you were a paleontologist, …

Space.com

The CME is expected to hit tomorrow (Sept. 19) and could spark impressive aurora displays.

Spaceflight Now

Rocket Lab is gearing up to launch the second of four next-generation radar-imaging satellites for Capella Space atop an Electron rocket from New Zealand at 6:30 p.m. NZST (2:30 a.m. EDT / 0630 UTC) on Tuesday. After lifting off from pad B at Rocket …

Phys.Org

In a paper published today (Sept. 18) in Nature Communications, researchers from the Paul-Drude-Institut in Berlin, Germany, and the Instituto Balseiro in Bariloche, Argentina, demonstrated that the mixing of confined quantum fluids of light and GHz …

Phys.Org

A total of 73 genera of land-dwelling vertebrates, Ceballos and Ehrlich found, have gone extinct since 1500 AD. Birds suffered the heaviest losses with 44 genus extinctions, followed in order by mammals, amphibians, and reptiles.

SpaceFlight Insider

Scheduled for no earlier than late 2024, the core stage, along with two massive solid rocket boosters, will provide the thrust required to get the Artemis 2 mission and its four-person crew into space.

CU Boulder Today

She explained that when water mixes with iron-rich minerals deep within the planet’s crust, the ensuing reactions can generate pockets of hydrogen gas. These deposits could, theoretically, become a gold mine for sustainable energy: When hydrogen is burned …

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Believed to be a remnant of powerful ancient debris flows, Gediz Vallis Ridge is a destination long sought by the rover’s science team. Three billion years ago, amid one of the last wet periods on Mars, powerful debris flows carried mud and boulders …