NASA brings Crew-11 home early in rare medical evacuation
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission has successfully concluded with a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean early Thursday morning, just off the coast of San Diego. The landing brought to a…
10 quintillion hydrogen bombs every second: Webb detects massive galactic eruption
Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine have identified what appears to be the largest stream of super-heated gas ever observed in the universe, flowing out of a nearby galaxy…
New moonquake discovery could change NASA’s Moon plans
A recently published study reports that shaking from moonquakes, rather than impacts from meteoroids, was the main force behind the shifting terrain in the Taurus-Littrow valley, the site where Apollo…
NASA’s x-ray telescope finds bizarre features in a cosmic hand
In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. i> X-rays from Chandra have been combined with…
Ancient solar system crash may explain Bennu and Ryugu’s origin
A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the hypothesis that they were originally part of the Polana collisional family in the…
A strange fossil at the edge of the solar system just shook up Planet Nine theories
Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer Solar System. The object was found…
Martian dust to dream homes: How microbes can build on the red planet
Inhabiting Mars has long been a futuristic fantasy fueled by science fiction. However, successful landings on our neighboring planet over the past half-century have made this seemingly far-fetched idea increasingly…
Tiny bright objects discovered at dawn of universe baffle scientists
A recent discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) confirmed that luminous, very red objects previously detected in the early universe upend conventional thinking about the origins and evolution…
Sleeping supermassive black holes awakened briefly by shredded stars
A new investigation into an obscure class of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects, or CSOs, has revealed that these objects are not entirely what they seem. CSOs are active…
Hubble sights a galaxy with ‘forbidden’ light
A whirling image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million light-years from Earth. In addition to being a well-defined spiral galaxy, MCG-01-24-014 has…