A first-of its-kind space weather “tabletop” exercise has revealed major weaknesses in America’s preparedness for severe solar storms. In May 2024, participants representing local and national government agencies gathered at
A first-of its-kind space weather “tabletop” exercise has revealed major weaknesses in America’s preparedness for severe solar storms. In May 2024, participants representing local and national government agencies gathered at
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Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2002 JX8 close encounter and (4) Vesta: online observation – 8 May 25 – YouTube Watch On On May 9, a stadium-sized potentially hazardous asteroid will pass
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Anne McClain is pictured near one of the International Space Station’s main solar arrays during a spacewalk. NASA/Nichole Ayers In this May 1,
Astronaut Anne McClain setting up the APEX-12 facility an EXPRESS rack — NASA Anne McClain: How does space radiation affect plants? NASA’s Advanced Plant EXperiment-12 (APEX-12) seeks to find out.
https://earthsky.org/upl/2025/05/HD-219134.mp4 Artist’s concept of the HD 219134 system. Sound waves propagating through the stellar interior – the nearby star’s music as it were – were used to measure its age
Scientists have made the first-ever identification of a supermassive black hole roaming the darkness between stars instead of in a galaxy’s core. This artist’s concept shows the glowing remnants of
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