1+ hour, 55+ min ago  (435+ words) May 28, 2026, 7: 00 AM PDT The Plaster City Open Area in Southern California. | blmcalifornia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons / Wikimedia Commons A BLM-managed area in the Southern California desert is helping NASA test a lunar lander." According to a report in Imperial…...

39+ min ago  (677+ words) Most known exoplanets are located within a couple thousand light-years of Earth. But "one of Roman's core surveys will peer all the way through the Milky Way's galactic bulge, the central hub where stars are packed more densely than anywhere…...

1+ hour, 44+ min ago  (307+ words) This was not a minor engineering footnote. It was a challenge to the physical plausibility of the entire concept. A megastructure requiring continuous active station-keeping is one that demands an unbroken technological civilization to maintain it indefinitely " a condition that…...

2+ hour, 21+ min ago  (854+ words) A sky-survey satellite completed its first year of data collection in 2018, capturing brightness records for tens of millions of stars. Astronomers worked through the brighter targets and moved on to confirming worlds. Most of what the spacecraft had recorded just…...

1+ hour, 38+ min ago  (535+ words) A solar flare captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in October 2014. Observations and questions have continued to accumulate. Why is the corona hundreds of times hotter than the surface below it? What drives the solar cycle? How do the electromagnetic…...

2+ hour, 1+ min ago  (776+ words) With approximately 5, 300 kilometers in diameter, Ganymede surpasses even Mercury in size. Among the more than one hundred known moons of Jupiter, it stands out for a rare characteristic: it is the only confirmed natural satellite with its own magnetic field....

1+ hour, 55+ min ago  (224+ words) An astronaut captured a view from the International Space Station (ISS) that will take your breath away. In January, Yui returned from space after completing the nearly five-month Space X Crew-11 mission to the ISS. This view "only happens when…...

6+ hour, 22+ min ago  (491+ words) Astronomers discover new method to estimate masses of planets using the dust in the protoplanetary disk image: Simulation of a planet embedded in a protoplanetary disc, causing disc material to pile up in a ring exterior to its orbit " Credit:…...

4+ hour, 55+ min ago  (361+ words) The research focused on permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) near the lunar south pole " areas that never receive sunlight and remain among the coldest places in the solar system. Within these regions, scientists closely examined what they describe as "doubly shadowed…...

4+ hour, 55+ min ago  (621+ words) This fire sky sunset was taken by Jan Curtis on Nov. 24, 2017, in Cheyenne. Curtis and Stan Gedzelman explain the source and cause of all the wondrous colors and fine rippled cloud structure in their e-book "Wonders of the Atmosphere." Look…...