Lunar Samples Identify Exactly When the Moon’s Largest Crater Formed
China’s Chang’e-6 mission has been exploring the largest crater on the Moon. It’s known as Aitken Basin and is found at the South Pole of the Moon where craters are…
Engineering Reality: Lee Bingham Leads Lunar Surface Simulation Support for Artemis Campaign
If you design a new tool for use on Earth, it is easy to test and practice using that tool in its intended environment. But what if that tool is…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Detects Largest Organic Molecules Found on Mars
Researchers analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the Red Planet to date. The finding, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National…
Researchers Test a Completely Flat Telescope Lens
Telescope optics can be made of mirrors or lenses, but in both cases, they’re bulky and need to follow a strict mathematical curve to focus light. Researchers have shown that…
The Most Distant Known Galaxy Already Had Oxygen
One of the surprising discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is that galaxies formed very early in the Universe. JWST has discovered about two dozen galaxies at a…
We’re One Step Closer to a Giant Interferometer on the Moon
What’s on and in a star? What happens at an active galactic nucleus? Answering those question is the goal of a proposed giant interferometer on the Moon. It’s called Artemis-enabled…
Would We Know if a Supernova Was About to Hit the Earth?
We know that regular supernovae pose no existential threat to life on Earth in the near-term. But there are other varieties of supernova that are a little bit harder to…
Aliens abduct space-crazed kid in wild new trailer for Pixar’s ‘Elio’ (video)
U.S. military makes 1st contact with aliens in ‘Elio,’ an intergalactic summertime treatfrom Pixar.
Next-Generation Water Satellite Maps Seafloor From Space
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Located off the coast of Ecuador, Paramount seamount is among the kinds of ocean floor features that certain ocean-observing…
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