A giant flare from a highly magnetized star called a magnetar can produce heavy elements such as gold and platinum, new research shows. The magnetar’s strong, twisted magnetic field lines
A giant flare from a highly magnetized star called a magnetar can produce heavy elements such as gold and platinum, new research shows. The magnetar’s strong, twisted magnetic field lines
Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This “twin” of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion
Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — DARPA is seeking proposals for a small lunar orbiter that
SpaceX continues its steady pace of Starlink launches, ever growing the company’s orbital internet constellation. A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX‘s Starlink 6-74 mission Thursday night, April 24, out of
Astronomers have caught an immensely ancient galaxy piercing the veil of darkness that shrouded the early universe. It’s surprising any light from distant galaxy JADES-GS-Z13-1-LA reached Earth at all. Photons
The Apollo (prefix A), Luna (prefix L), and Chang’e-5 (CE5) missions collected samples in and around the Procellarum KREEP Terrane which exhibits notably higher thorium (Th) than the Feldspathic Highlands
Schematic illustration of our proposed carbon cycle on early Mars. Evaporation of water (pink shading) from subsurface pore spaces initially deposits siderite, which sequesters atmospheric CO2 (black downward arrow). Increasing
China’s latest astronaut crew has reached its orbital destination. The three-person Shenzhou 20 mission arrived at China’s Tiangong space station today (April 24) at 11:49 a.m. EDT (1549 GMT), beginning
The iconic Whirlpool galaxy Messier 51 is pictured along with the smaller galaxy NGC 5195 at the top of the image. (Image credit: Dr. Michele Hernandez Bayliss) Vermont-based astrophotographer Michele
Applications 17/04/2025 517 views 13 likes Satellite observations show that sea-surface temperatures over the past four decades have been getting warmer at an accelerated pace. Between 1985 and 1989, a






