Samples of Lunar Rock Are Leading Scientists to Rethink the Moon’s History
Based on a new analysis of the Chang’e-6 lunar samples, scientists are again questioning the timing and intensity of the Late Heavy Bombardment period.
Swift reboost mission encounters attitude control problems
A spacecraft launched nearly a month ago in a high-risk bid to boost the orbit of a NASA astrophysics satellite is suffering attitude control problems that could jeopardize its mission.…
Astrobiology Offers Crucial Window Onto Earth’s Distant Past And Future
The search for extrasolar rocky planets circling other stars is more than mere science. It offers researchers a chance to gain crucial insight into how our own planet functions.
DJI Lito 1 drone review
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NASA fuels its next-gen Roman Space Telescope for August launch
NASA announced on Tuesday (July 28) that it has officially fueled-up the Roman Space Telescope — a magnificent new observatory expected to generate over 500 terabytes of cosmic data per…
ESA opens call to repurpose Gateway communications module
JOHANNESBURG — The European Space Agency is moving ahead with plans to examine the feasibility of repurposing Lunar Link, a communications system developed for NASA’s now-paused Gateway space station, as…
Our Milky Way galaxy appears to have flipped 90 degrees long ago. But why?
The Milky Way’s spiral disk may have flipped over by 90 degrees, in turn altering the solar system’s orbit around the center of the galaxy. Spiral galaxies such as the…
Galaxy Mergers May Not Stifle Star Formation After All, According to Illustris TNG
In recent years, the idea that galaxy mergers are responsible for quenching galaxies has grown in importance. This paradigm says that galaxies merge, their black holes form a powerful quasar,…
A Distant Primordial Object May Be a Newborn Little Red Dot
Little Red Dots are among the most intriguing discoveries made to date by the infrared-sensitive James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). They are distant, small objects that appear red in the…
‘Silo’ season 3’s Ashley Zuckerman and Jessica Henwick share the secret to their on-screen chemistry (interview)
In Apple TV’s “Silo” season 3, we lunge back 352 years to the Before Times to see how the greatest engineering project in the history of the world began… and…