WASHINGTON — NASA has selected the Centaur upper stage currently used on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket for future flights of the Space Launch System. In a procurement filing published
WASHINGTON — NASA has selected the Centaur upper stage currently used on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket for future flights of the Space Launch System. In a procurement filing published
An artist’s impression of 3I/ATLAS is shown as it passes near the Sun, illuminating one side of the comet. On the side of the comet closer to the sun, the
Chemical structures of selected ILs and DES. (a) Anions common to planetary environments could lead to abiotic formation of ILs and DES, including, e.g., NO3 −, HSO4 −, Cl−, ClO4−,
Binary and Planet periods for the detected planets in the synthetic yield of Setup 1 (coloured by planet mass) alongside known circumbinary planets detected by transit or radial velocities. Dashed
Artist concept highlighting the novel approach proposed by the 2025 NIAC awarded selection of Inflatable Starshade for Earthlike Exoplanets concept. — NASA/John Mather — NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Imaging
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved a theory scientists have believed for 45 years: that stars switch
Today’s Picture of the Week, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), seems to have captured a cosmic hawk as it spans its wings.
Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of atomic nuclei, and they possess some of the strongest gravitational
The Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube traveled alongside NASA’s DART to capture the spacecraft’s collision with Dimorphos. In this LICIACube image, taken moments after impact on Sept. 26, 2022, rocky debris
Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in astronomy and a key interest for the public. Addressing






