NASA Starts Phase One of a Sprawling Moon Base Build
Imagine tractors, drones and rovers unpacking themselves under a cold, slow sun. That image is no longer a prop from a s...
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NASA's New AI Chip Could Let Spacecraft Make Decisions
Imagine a palm-sized computer that can sift through terabytes of sensor data, decide in an instant which images matter, ...
Asteroid Craters May Have Nurtured Earth's First Oxygen
Imagine a shallow lake stirred not by wind but by the afterglow of an asteroid strike. Warm, mineral-rich, and oddly she...
Psyche’s Mars Flyby: A Gravity Boost and New Views
A robotic probe skimmed past Mars on May 15 and left the Red Planet with more than a faster orbit. It left with pictures...
A Black Hole Crash May Be Closer Than We Think
Half a billion light-years away, a galaxy called Mrk 501 may be staging one of the most dramatic events in the universe—...
Why This ‘Forbidden’ Giant Planet Has Astronomers Stumped
A planet this big has no business circling a star this small. And yet TOI 5205b is right there, forcing astronomers to r...
Study: Hidden Plume Under Mars Could Be Speeding Rotation
Mars is trimming fractions of a millisecond off its day. It sounds trivial, but for planetary scientists, that tiny chan...
Mars' 'Pyramid' in Candor Chasma: Nature, Not Aliens
A dramatic triangle of shadow and light catches the eye: a three-sided peak tucked into the folds of Candor Chasma, one ...
Inside NASA's First Astronaut Medical Evacuation Revealed
It began with a routine day aboard the International Space Station and ended with an unusually fast trip home. Mike Finc...
Moonquakes Found Across the Maria: A New Global Map
When the Moon creaks, it does so in more places than we imagined. New mapping shows that the dark basalt plains — the ma...
A Tiny Martian Storm, A Big Leak: Water Lost to Space
Something small on Mars caused something large. An intense but localized dust storm, the kind that would be easy to miss...
Why SpaceX's Next Starship Launch Matters for Artemis
March promises to be a pivotal month at Starbase. Elon Musk has confirmed on X that SpaceX will attempt the twelfth Star...
Scientists Catch the Big Bang’s Primordial Soup in Motion
Imagine a sea so hot and dense you cannot point to a single particle and say, "There it is." Instead, everything flows t...
A Pulsar Ticking Near Sagittarius A* Could Test Gravity
Something is ticking deep inside the Milky Way's crowded heart, and astronomers want to know if it will help them rewrit...
Cosmic Volcano: Black Hole Jets Restart After 100M Years
A sleeping giant has stirred. In radio waves stretching nearly a million light-years, astronomers have caught a supermas...
Astronomers Find Strongest Candidate Dark Galaxy Yet
Darkness can be loud. In a crowded galaxy cluster, a faint whisper of light—no brighter than a handful of stars clustere...
NASA Restarts Moon Rocket Fueling for Artemis II Test
A full Moon hangs over the launch pad as technicians wheel back into place the procedures that could send humans past th...
Four Astronauts Restore Full ISS Crew After Evacuation
They floated in with laughter and handshakes, a moment that felt less like a crew exchange and more like the station tak...
Parker Probe Rewrites the Mystery of Solar Wind Heating
The sun is not a simple furnace; it is a dynamic, magnetic ocean of plasma that keeps scientists arguing, revising model...
Space Turns Skulls Into Moving Rooms: Brain Shifts
Imagine your brain drifting a few millimetres inside your skull. It sounds like science fiction, but recent MRI analyses...