Simulating extraterrestrial environments on Earth has always been a challenge. Our planet has a pleasant atmosphere, reasonable temperatures, and a moderate amount of gravity, unlike the rest of the solar
Simulating extraterrestrial environments on Earth has always been a challenge. Our planet has a pleasant atmosphere, reasonable temperatures, and a moderate amount of gravity, unlike the rest of the solar
Captain Kirk always had a reputation as a ladies’ man. Throughout the Enterprise’s famous five-year mission, he frequently set phasers to love, punctuating the important business of boldly going with
Water-equivalent content by weight in the Solar System and model predictions. Left upper panel: Midplane temperature of the disk using T1au = 145, 180, 200 and 300 K (from light
Mysteries abound in space. In the Tarantula Nebula, which lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, astronomers used simulations to reconstruct how three stars were ejected from the star cluster R136,
HELSINKI — Chinese startup Space Pioneer has completed a launch pad at Jiuquan spaceport for its Tianlong-3 liquid propellent rocket ahead of a first orbital launch. To continue reading this
Perhaps it’s fate that Marvel’s Fantastic Four made their comics debut in 1961 as the era of human spaceflight began. Or it could just be a cosmic coincidence. Either way,
This spectacular spiral galaxy is Messier 83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel. New research on this galaxy may help explain how galaxies are able to sustain star formation over
Near-UV to visible reflectance spectrum of 3I/ATLAS obtained with OSIRIS/GTC and normalized to unity at 5500 Å. Normalized reflectance of 1I/’Oumuamua (in brown) from Fitzsimmons et al. (2018) and 2I/Borisov
Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any explorers that might land there one day, a new study finds.
NASA/Aubrey Gemignani A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft Endeavour lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 1, 2025.






