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A year inside a sealed habitat can sound like science fiction, but NASA is treating it as preparation.
NASA wants four volunteers to live in isolation for a year, simulating travel to the Moon and Mars from Houston.
Amyn Bhaiupda
Conceptual illustration of Penrose’s proposal for extracting energy from a rotating black hole.
SpaceCUNY researchers bring black hole theory to life in the labShy Cohen
MIT research outlines a way to detect possible nuclear weapons aboard suspicious satellites in low-Earth orbit.
SpaceMIT scientist reveals a new method to detect nuclear weapons in spaceJoseph Shavit
New research suggests dark matter could be born ultrafast during reheating and still cool enough to build galaxies.
SpaceNew study reveals how dark matter formed shortly after the Big BangJoseph Shavit
AI crater catalogs for the Moon often perform worse than published metrics suggest when tested by human scientific standards.
AIAI can quickly spot and catalog lunar craters, but accuracy remains a major problemShy Cohen
Lunar regolith geopolymers survived six months outside the ISS, and some samples returned stronger than Earth-based controls.
SpaceISS test finds that moon dust could be effective as a lunar building materialJoseph Shavit
Strange isotope signals in 3I/ATLAS suggest the interstellar comet formed around an ancient, metal-poor star.
SpaceInterstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may come from a solar system much older than our ownJoshua Shavit
This artist’s impression shows a quasar: a brief period of life for a big, bright galaxy during which large quantities of material spiral into its central supermassive black hole, releasing energetic light as it does so.
SpaceEuclid finds 31 distant quasars dating back 800 million yearsJoseph Shavit
MIT-led modeling suggests human-caused ozone depletion may have begun in 1957 in the tropical upper stratosphere.
SpaceOzone depletion actually began decades before holes in the ozone layer were first discoveredShy Cohen
NASA and Katalyst are attempting a robotic rescue of the Swift telescope before solar drag pulls it into Earth's atmosphere.
SpaceNASA’s risky bid to save Swift telescope before solar drag pulls it into Earth’s atmosphereJoseph Shavit
Webb images suggest mergers helped shut down star formation in distant galaxies during a peak era of cosmic growth.
SpaceJWST reveals why some distant galaxies suddenly stop forming starsShy Cohen
This artist’s impression depicts the structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA's Gaia and illustrates how scientists have revised the position of its outer arms thanks to observations from ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra.
SpaceXMM-Newton gamma-ray detection shows the Milky Way is bigger than previously thoughtJoshua Shavit
Artist concept of the gas giant planet WD1856b orbiting a white dwarf star. The planet is 7 times larger than the Earth-sized white dwarf it orbits.
SpaceJWST solves the mystery of the giant planet orbiting a dead starJoseph Shavit
This image shows satellites crossing the night sky above the northern Atacama Desert in Chile, over a period of just one hour.
Space1.7 million satellites and space mirrors may put the night sky at riskJoshua Shavit
Webb reveals a warm giant planet orbiting a white dwarf, offering clues to how planets survive after their stars die.
SpaceUniversity of St Andrews scientists discover what will happen when our sun diesJoseph Shavit
GJ 3378 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a M-type star. Its mass is 2.3 Earths, it takes 21.5 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.09673 AU from its star.
SpaceNearby exoplanet just got more Earth-like and promising for lifeJoseph Shavit
New Horizons data shows the solar wind slows 13% to 15% in the outer heliosphere as it picks up interstellar material.
SpaceAstronomers discover why solar winds gradually slow down on their way out of the solar systemJoshua Shavit