Astronomy
What time is the 'Blood Moon' total lunar eclipse tonight?
Watch Blue Ghost Test its Vacuum and Drill Experiments on the Moon
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission has successfully touched down on the lunar surface and is now undertaking various experiments. Two of these experiments have been captured on video; the first is the LISTER drill, capable of penetrating the lunar regolith to depths of up to 3 meters. It will provide scientists with data to measure the Moon's cooling rate. Additionally, footage has been obtained of the PlanetVac experiment, which is evaluating regolith sample collection methods under the Moon's vacuum conditions.
Major ship collision in UK waters sparks fears of toxic chemical leak
Major ship collision in UK waters sparks fears of toxic chemical leak
Largest all-electric flying machine begins sea trials
Largest all-electric flying machine begins sea trials
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet flew in front of the sun so NASA could take this incredible shock wave photo
Microplastic Pollution Is Messing with Photosynthesis in Plants
Microplastics can cut a plant’s ability to photosynthesize by up to 12 percent, new research shows
Remember that Asteroid That Isn't Going to Hit Earth? We Could Send A Mission to Explore it!
In a recent paper, Adam Hibberd and Marshall Eubanks explore the feasibility of sending a mission to rendezvous with YR4, the asteroid that may pose a hazard to Earth someday.
There's a total lunar eclipse coming. How will these 2 solar-powered moon probes survive the darkness?
NASA cutting programs, workforce to comply with Trump order
NASA’s Dawn Sees Crescent Ceres
Hubble Telescope rocks out with cosmic guitar | Space photo of the day March 10, 2025
16 years before 'Mickey 17''s mission to the stars, 2009's 'Moon' was already sending in the clones
Finding White Dwarf-Main Sequence Binaries in Gaia Data with Machine Learning
Despite having recently officially ended its science operations in January, Gaia, one of the most prolific star explorers ever, is still providing new scientific insights. A recent paper pre-published on arXiv (which has not been peer-reviewed but was submitted to the Astrophysical Journal) took another look at some Gaia data to try to find a unique type of astronomical entity - white dwarf stars that are paired up in a binary with a main sequence one. By applying a machine learning technique called a "self-organizing map," they found 801 new white dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binaries, increasing the total number ever found by over 20%.