Read More Scince News Space a month ago Could Our Instruments Be Missing Signs of Alien Life? Astrobiologists warn that our instruments and assumptions may produce false negatives, causing us to miss signs of life on Mars and exoplanets. New research calls for redesigned missions, lab tests, and AI-aided pattern searches.
Read More Scince News Space a month ago NASA Starts Phase One of a Sprawling Moon Base Build NASA has awarded contracts to begin Phase 1 of a lunar base near the Moon's south pole: landers, moon buggies and drones will arrive ahead of Artemis crews, paving the way for infrastructure and long-term habitats in the 2030s.
Read More Scince News Space a month ago NASA's New AI Chip Could Let Spacecraft Make Decisions NASA and Microchip's HPSC is a radiation-hardened, palm-sized system-on-chip that boosts onboard AI and computing for deep-space missions. JPL tests show dramatic performance and power-management gains for future rovers and orbiters.
Read More Scince News Space a month ago Asteroid Craters May Have Nurtured Earth's First Oxygen Researchers found stromatolites in South Korea's Hapcheon impact crater, suggesting post-impact hydrothermal lakes offered refuge for oxygen-producing microbes and could illuminate Earth's early oxygen rise and astrobiological targets.
Read More Scince Space a month ago Psyche’s Mars Flyby: A Gravity Boost and New Views NASA’s Psyche used a May 15 flyby of Mars — passing 2,864 miles away — to gain speed, reorient itself and capture rare crescent and surface images while validating instruments for its 2029 rendezvous with asteroid Psyche.
Read More Scince Space 2 months ago A Black Hole Crash May Be Closer Than We Think Astronomers believe Mrk 501 may host two supermassive black holes on the verge of collision, offering a rare chance to witness a cosmic merger and its gravitational waves in near real time.
Read More Scince Space 3 months ago Why This ‘Forbidden’ Giant Planet Has Astronomers Stumped James Webb Space Telescope observations of TOI 5205b reveal a bizarre giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf, with an unusual atmosphere that challenges current theories of planet formation.
Read More Scince Space 3 months ago Study: Hidden Plume Under Mars Could Be Speeding Rotation New analysis of InSight and Viking data suggests a buoyant mantle plume beneath Mars’ Tharsis region could be moving mass equatorward, slightly speeding the planet’s rotation and fueling volcanic activity.
Read More Scince Space 3 months ago Mars' 'Pyramid' in Candor Chasma: Nature, Not Aliens A Mars formation in Candor Chasma drew viral attention as a "pyramid." High-resolution HiRISE images and geological analysis show it is a natural erosional knob, not an artificial structure.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Inside NASA's First Astronaut Medical Evacuation Revealed Veteran astronaut Mike Fincke confirmed he was the ISS crew member whose medical issue led to NASA's first medical evacuation, highlighting the role of on-orbit ultrasound and the need for stronger space-medicine protocols.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Moonquakes Found Across the Maria: A New Global Map A new global map of small ridges across the lunar maria reveals widespread, geologically young tectonic activity. The findings reshape our view of moonquakes and have implications for future lunar bases.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago A Tiny Martian Storm, A Big Leak: Water Lost to Space A regional Martian dust storm in 2022–2023 lofted unusually large amounts of water to high altitudes, driving a spike in hydrogen escape and altering estimates of how Mars lost its water over time.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Why SpaceX's Next Starship Launch Matters for Artemis SpaceX has scheduled the twelfth Starship test for March from Starbase, using a taller third-generation Super Heavy booster. The flight is a critical step toward proving Starship for NASA's Artemis III lunar landing.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Scientists Catch the Big Bang’s Primordial Soup in Motion Researchers at MIT and CERN used Z-boson-tagged collisions in the LHC to reveal that quark-gluon plasma behaves like a liquid, producing wakes and swirls when struck by a quark—offering fresh insight into the Universe's first microseconds.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago A Pulsar Ticking Near Sagittarius A* Could Test Gravity A candidate 8.19-ms pulsar near Sagittarius A* could become a precise clock to probe General Relativity and the environment around our Galaxy's supermassive black hole; follow-up and public data release are underway.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Cosmic Volcano: Black Hole Jets Restart After 100M Years A supermassive black hole in galaxy J1007+3540 has reignited after nearly 100 million years. New LOFAR and uGMRT radio images show fresh jets nested inside ancient lobes, bent and compressed by cluster gas.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Astronomers Find Strongest Candidate Dark Galaxy Yet Astronomers report CDG-2, a compelling dark galaxy candidate in the Perseus cluster, detected through its globular clusters using Hubble, Euclid and Subaru, shedding light on dark-matter-dominated systems.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago NASA Restarts Moon Rocket Fueling for Artemis II Test NASA restarted a second wet dress rehearsal after fixing liquid hydrogen leaks on its SLS Moon rocket. Teams aim for a leak-free fuel test before a potential March launch for Artemis II.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Four Astronauts Restore Full ISS Crew After Evacuation SpaceX delivered four astronauts to the ISS on Feb. 14, restoring a full seven-person crew after a rare medical evacuation. The arrivals let NASA resume paused spacewalks and science operations aboard the orbiting laboratory.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Parker Probe Rewrites the Mystery of Solar Wind Heating Parker Solar Probe's close passes reveal how the solar wind gains heat and speed. New analyses using real particle distributions and the ALPS solver revise theories of energy transfer in the sun's plasma and sharpen space weather forecasts.
