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Dimorphos streaks offer first direct evidence that binary asteroids can exchange debris through slow impacts.
Bright streaks on Dimorphos suggest Didymos shed debris that drifted over and landed in slow-motion impacts.
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Study finds Earth-sun distance helps drive the Pacific cold tongue, a key player in El Niño and global weather.
SpaceEarth’s distance from the Sun found to dramatically alter seasonsJoshua Shavit
James Webb observations confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will safely pass the Moon in 2032, eliminating a previous collision risk.
SpaceAsteroid 2024 YR4 once feared to strike the Moon now appears harmlessJoseph Shavit
Scientists grew chickpeas in simulated moon soil, offering a possible step toward feeding future lunar astronauts.
Green ImpactResearchers successfully grow chickpeas in ‘moon dirt’Rebecca Shavit
The oldest stars in the Milky Way provide information about the age of the universe.
SpaceAncient Milky Way stars challenge the age of the universe and the Hubble tensionJoseph Shavit
Section of the Line Intensity Map created by charting the distribution and concentration of excited hydrogen via the Lyman alpha wavelength in the universe 10 billion years ago.
SpaceAstronomers built the largest and most accurate 3D map of the ultraviolet universeJoshua Shavit
ESA orbiters watched a May 2024 solar superstorm flood Mars’ upper air with electrons and trigger spacecraft glitches.
SpaceESA orbiter reveals strange behavior within Mars’ upper atmosphere during a solar superstormJoseph Shavit
Ryugu asteroid samples preserve magnetic signals from the early solar system, revealing clues about the solar nebula.
SpaceAsteroid Ryugu fragments carry a magnetic record from the birth of the solar systemJoseph Shavit
Lab impacts show a tough microbe can survive pressures linked to rock ejection from Mars, supporting planet-hopping ideas.
SpaceMartian microbes can survive being blasted into space by a large asteroid strikeJoshua Shavit
Image of WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI). ESO/K.
SpaceA giant star’s sudden shift signals it might be ready to supernovaJoseph Shavit
Illustration of the distant galaxy 8 billion light-years away (red), magnified by an unrelated foreground disk galaxy, resulting in a red ring. Splitting up the radio light into different colors, as a prism does, reveals the hydroxyl gigamaser (top-right rainbow-colored line).
SpaceMeerKAT discovers largest-ever cosmic laser 8 billion light-years awayJoshua Shavit
Five physical barriers may prevent civilizations from ever meeting, from light speed limits to cosmic timing gaps.
SpaceInterstellar travel is impossible and aliens haven’t visited Earth, physicists sayJoseph Shavit
Ancient sediments reveal Earth’s magnetic poles once took 70,000 years to reverse, far longer than scientists expected.
SpaceEarth’s magnetic poles once took 70,000 years to reverseJoseph Shavit
Scientists used lasers to turn simulated moon dust into durable material, offering a path for building structures directly on the Moon.
Space3D printed moon dust structures could be the future of lunar constructionJoshua Shavit
Some Mars soil simulants quickly halted active tardigrades, but washing one simulant with water largely removed the damage.
SpaceTardigrades and water reveal potential for food growth on MarsJoseph Shavit
This image shows the complex distribution of molecular gas in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way. It was obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner.
SpaceLargest image of its kind reveals the Milky Way’s core looks like a web of cold gasJoseph Shavit
Researchers tested what happens when a nutrient-rich liquid made from recycled waste meets fake Moon and Mars dirt.
SpaceRecycled waste could make the moon or Mars suitable for growing foodJoseph Shavit