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Space habitat design could shape astronaut mental health on long missions by influencing sleep, privacy, connection, and homesickness.
MIT engineers mapped how lighting, layout, privacy, and reconfigurable spaces can affect crews living far from Earth.
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Theia remnants inside Earth may survive as two giant mantle blobs left by the collision that created the Moon.
SpaceScientists discover remnants of Theia, the planet that collided with Earth 4.5 billion years agoJoseph Shavit
JWST detects water around IRS 3, a dying star shedding huge amounts of gas and dust near the Milky Way’s central black hole.
SpaceJWST finds water around a dying star near the Milky Way’s central black holeJoshua Shavit
A JWST black hole star candidate may explain mysterious little red dots and how massive black holes grew in the early universe.
SpaceStrange red object from the early universe could be the first ‘black hole star’Joseph Shavit
Face-on projections of the stacked surface density distribution of stars and gas in the X-Y plane.
SpaceDark matter and star clusters work together to reshape the centers of galaxiesJoseph Shavit
Gaia star clusters challenge the universal initial mass function used to estimate galaxy mass, star formation and evolution.
SpaceNew Gaia data is challenging a 50-year-old assumption about how stars and galaxies formJoseph Shavit
Captured at a wavelength of 416 nanometers by the Inouye Solar Telescope, this is the highest-resolution image ever taken of the Sun's visible surface. It reveals ultra-fine magnetic structures and distorted boundaries shaped by the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.
SpaceSmall whirlpool-like structures reveal how the Sun stores and releases energyJoshua Shavit
Illustration of solar wind streaming from a fuming Sun drives auroras bright enough to be seen far from the poles, a dazzling signature of an extreme geomagnetic storm
SpaceScientists discover solar storms could hit Earth much harder than previously thoughtJoseph Shavit
Dark markings on Pluto’s largest glacier may be evidence that liquid nitrogen recently rose and flowed across its surface.
SpaceNew Horizons images reveal signs of flowing liquid nitrogen on PlutoJoseph Shavit
This image shows the host galaxy of the recently detected supernova SN 2026gzf.
SpaceRare x-ray flash reveals the first moments of a powerful supernova without a gamma-ray burstJoseph Shavit
A new cosmology model describes a universe without dark matter while matching key measurements of galaxy spacing and ancient light.
SpaceNew cosmology model finds that dark matter doesn’t existJoseph Shavit
Scientists have proposed one pathway little red dots can follow as the universe matures based on their analysis of spiral galaxy WISEA J123635.56+621424.2, nicknamed the “Saguaro.” They suggest little red dots may be a temporary phase of highly active supermassive black holes.
SpaceNASA’s Webb telescope may have solved the mystery of the universe’s ‘little red dots’Joseph Shavit
A close-up of the polygon fractures discovered by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover highlights their honeycomb-like textures.
SpaceNASA’s Curiosity rover finds a vast field of honeycomb fractures on MarsJoseph Shavit
A faint giant planet hid near Beta Pictoris b for over a decade before astronomers recognized it in archived images.
SpaceJWST captures stunning images of one of the lightest known exoplanetsJoseph Shavit
A photon experiences no time while crossing space, a result that reveals how relativity connects light, motion and the flow of time.
SpaceA beam of light can cross the entire universe in no time at allJoseph Shavit
NASA’s Juno spacecraft made the first direct measurements of the temperature beneath the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io using the Microwave Radiometer, (MWR), invented and designed by Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Scott Bolton.
SpaceNASA’s Juno spacecraft finds temperatures surging just below Io’s volcanic surfaceJoseph Shavit
A meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home contains rare evidence of ancient salty water and organic molecules tied to life’s origins.
SpaceRare meteorite crashes into New Jersey home revealing clues to the origin of lifeJoseph Shavit