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This gives the world a surface temperature of around 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius) and means one orbit of the planet takes around 200 Earth years. The JWST was able …

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It really is the summer of cosmic anniversaries. Following the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing and the anniversary of Space.com opening its doors to the internet, NASA’s Chandra X- …

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So-called “millisecond pulsars” can spin hundreds of times a second and blast beams of electromagnetic radiation from their poles like cosmic lighthouses, which sweep across space. They get their name because when they were …

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The solar system’s tiniest planet may be hiding a big secret. Using data from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have determined that a 10-mile-thick diamond mantle may lie beneath the crust of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun.

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A black and white image of the moon’s surface. A large white pattern is seen. The Reiner Gamma lunar swirl in Oceanus Procellarum, imaged by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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The idea was sparked when Kevin Pimbblet, a professor of astrophysics at the University, was studying facial imagery created by artificial intelligence (AI) art generators Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. He wondered whether he could use physics to …

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The roughly 11-pound (5 kilograms) rover was deployed on the surface of the far side of the moon and imaged the Chang’e 6 spacecraft after it had completed collecting samples but before the precious cargo was blasted into lunar orbit for a journey to Earth …

Spaceflight Now

On Tuesday, the 212-foot-long core stage, nestled inside NASA’s massive Pegasus barge, completed its week-long voyage from eastern Louisiana to Florida. It is part of the second Space Launch …

Scientific American

The VIPER lunar rover promised a revolution in our understanding of the moon’s precious deposits of ice. Then NASA cancelled the mission. By Michael Greshko. NASA’s VIPER – short for the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover – sits assembled …

Scientific American

A novel way of making superheavy elements could soon add a new row to the periodic table, allowing scientists to explore uncharted atomic realms. By Max Springer. A researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory works with a cyclotron and …