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On the night of 7–8 September 2025 a total lunar eclipse will turn the full Moon a deep red for observers across large p...

The Sun as a Natural Particle AcceleratorThe Sun is not only the source of light and heat for the Solar System; it also ...

Why finding Earth’s twins is so difficultDetecting an Earth-sized planet orbiting a Sun-like star is fundamentally a pro...

Why finding Earth’s twins is so difficultDetecting an Earth-sized planet orbiting a Sun-like star is fundamentally a pro...

Introduction: Strategic power on the MoonOn August 5, 2025, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced an accelerate...

Space Coast momentum: 70th launch keeps 2025 record paceSpaceX continued its rapid cadence on the Florida Space Coast wi...

Venus shares size, mass and bulk composition with Earth, yet its environment is radically different: a dense CO2 atmosph...

Jupiter’s formation left molten fingerprints in early solar system debrisNew research shows that the rapid growth of Jup...

Superheavy dark matter and planetary collapseDark matter makes up roughly 85 percent of the Universe's matter by mass, y...

Astronomers at the University of Missouri have sifted through James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) infrared images and flag...

Stellar death as a window into planet formationThe stunning chaos at the core of the Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302) is givi...

New seismic analysis reveals preserved crustal chunks deep beneath MarsA recent seismic study of Mars shows the planet's...

Discovery and contextThe Petralona skull, first recovered in 1960 from a sheltered chamber of Petralona Cave near Thessa...

Mars' interior: a preserved, blocky record of early impactsAn international team of planetary scientists has used seismi...

Breakthrough High-Resolution Imaging of an X-Class Solar FlareThe Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) in Hawaii has...

Introduction — Bennu as a Time CapsuleThe OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission has begun to deliver on its promise: laborato...

Ancient fragments and a surprising fingerprintThe solar system formed roughly 4.6 billion years ago from a rotating disk...

Origins: a private challenge to an established launch monopolyElon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with the explicit aim of ...

Probing the pre-Big Bang frontier with supercomputersA new review by cosmologist Eugene Lim (King's College London) and ...

Uranus’ thermal mystery: a planet unlike the othersUranus stands out in the Solar System: it rolls on its side so each p...