NASA has reached one of its key steps on the road to returning humans to the moon, as NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems team successfully lifted and integrated the Orion spacecraft
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | These green aurora blobs in front of the more distant red and green forms are proton auroras. The images on this page of the
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View larger. | Artist’s concept of a rocky planet like Earth with colorful microbes in its clouds. The microorganisms have biopigments similar to ones on Earth. New research shows that
A baby galaxy is throwing one heck of a tantrum, and it’s shaking up our understanding of the earliest galaxies. Recently, an international team of astronomers used the James Webb
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over one of Earth’s most extreme environments: the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia. Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at
Family portrait of the five planets in the L 98-59 system showing their transit (or absence of transit) observed by TESS in the top panels and their Doppler signature from
Core 1494Da Hemoglycin, ball and stick model. Atom labels: Hydrogen white, Carbon black, Nitrogen blue, Oxygen red, Iron green. — physics.chem-ph The empty, extensive low-density lattice topology of hemoglycin is
Astrochemistry Status Report astro-ph.EP July 16, 2025 The final solid surface density of various elements in disks around 1 M⊙ stars. Select elements are shown using three different units and
On Wednesday (July 16), the largest Mars meteorite on Earth was auctioned off at Sotheby’s in New York City for $4.3 million. The jagged, 54-pound (25-kilogram) chunk of the Red
Want to bring the world closer? The best telescopes are one option but you shouldn’t underestimate the power and portability of binoculars. With many night sky phenomena happening this week
The Seahorse Nebula (left) was captured alongside the Fireworks Galaxy and the ‘Ghost Bush’ open star cluster (right). (Image credit: Greg Meyer) Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a spectacular image
a The energy diagrams above the polymers show the heights of the kinetic barriers for bond formation/dissociation in various regions. Dark- vertical bars are hydrogen bonds with high kinetic barrier,
Andy Burroughs (left) and Paul Friz in the roles of air taxi pilots running through air taxi integration simulations focusing on urban air space at NASA’s Langley Research in Hampton,
Example evolution of an unstable system with 5 one-Neptune-mass planets. Top: the semi-major axes of individual planets are plotted as solid lines. Orbits’ radial extents between pericenter and apocenter are
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered an oddball galaxy, dubbed the Infinity Galaxy, that could be host to a “direct collapse black hole.” That is, a
