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A 'Cosmic Positioning System' in the outer solar system

There have been plenty of attempts to resolve the "Hubble Tension" in cosmology....

Would Earth still be habitable without us?

Here's a thought experiment that keeps planetary scientists awake at night. Stri...

How long do civilizations last?

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend h...

MeerKAT discovers record-breaking cosmic laser halfway ...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered th...

The stars that lit up the early Milky Way

Imagine trying to reconstruct the history of a city by studying only its oldest ...

NASA adds mission to Artemis lunar program, updates arc...

As part of a golden age of exploration and discovery, NASA announced Friday the ...

Rare Type Icn supernova SN 2024abvb is among the most l...

An international team of astronomers has carried out photometric and spectroscop...

Get ready for the Rubin Observatory's deluge of discove...

It's been about eight months since the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) saw first li...

NASA's MAVEN detects first evidence of lightning-like a...

While sifting through the extensive data collected by NASA's Mars Atmosphere and...

ISS photo captures Atlantic sunglint 263 miles up, show...

"Sunlight" beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the In...

How to weigh a killer asteroid at 22 kilometers per second

Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the sing...

Research reveals cosmic tug-of-war behind the Crab Puls...

For the past two decades, scientists have wondered about a bright, distinct stri...

Europe's answer to Starship

In the summer of 2023, something happened that engineers had talked about for de...

Asteroid Ryugu samples offer new insights into early so...

To uncover the history of our solar system, it is necessary to study the dynamic...

A 690-million-kilometer journey through space ends for ...

After more than 25 months of successful operations in space, the SpIRIT mission ...

Life forms can planet hop on asteroid debris—and survive

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other ...