China’s Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples. Tianwen 2 launched from Xichang on a Long March
Illustration of the range of possible internal compositions for temperate sub-Neptunes like K2-18 b, and a roadmap to characterize them through atmospheric observations. A liquid-water ocean separating the atmosphere from
Rebecca Romijn’s Number One (aka Una Chin-Riley) and Christina Chong’s La’an Noonien-Singh have gone through some transformational character changes over the past two seasons of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”
A NASA Mars mission’s long and winding road to the launch pad is nearing its end. The twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) Mars probes had been
Chang’E-5 lunar soil sitting at the bottom of a photothermal reactor. Credit Sun et al. Scientists have developed a technology that may help humans survive on the Moon. In a
Earth’s atmosphere — NASA Water vapour is highly subsaturated in much of the Earth’s atmosphere. This has important consequences for water vapour feedback, and also for general phenomena such as
NASA has discovered that 7 out of 10 astronauts returning from the International Space Station have been unable to see clearly, with vision problems that can last for years! As
Graphical Abstract — Bar-Ilan University A new study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University has uncovered that certain ocean viruses—specifically RNA viruses—may disrupt how carbon and nutrients are recycled in the
Using a cutting-edge magnetic wave detection technique, a new study in Nature Communications has identified lithium in Mercury’s exosphere for the first time.
Best fit results from a joint transit and RV fit using a quasi-periodic GP model to account for the excess RV scatter in the RVs. a) Top: NEID (yellow) and
