The enormous storms of impenetrable clouds covering Jupiter’s surface make it nearly impossible for us to get a glimpse of what lies below. Any spacecraft attempting to get a closer look would be vaporized, melted, or crushed if it attempted to sail through. NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, for instance, went dark almost immediately when it intentionally
Following a fueling test of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket at the launch pad for the Artemis II Moon mission, leaders will discuss initial results during a news conference at 12 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 3. The agency’s SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft arrived at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
File – SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands in the vertical launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the launch of the Starlink 17-5 mission on Aug. 18, 2025. This was the ninth flight for Falcon 9 booster, tail number B1088. Image: SpaceX Update Feb. 2, 9:53 a.m.
Bright white rocks. Scattered across the rusty red plains of Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted them in Jezero crater which the scientists have been staring at them ever since. At first glance, they might seem ordinary. But analysis tells a different story that these rocks aren’t just rocks. They’re kaolinite clays, aluminium-rich, and rare. On
Using the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescope, scientists have observed the most distant and thus earliest galaxy cluster ever seen coming together. The infant cluster, or protocluster, was assembling itself just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, far earlier in the history of the cosmos than previously thought possible.
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A series of high-resolution simulations has revealed a striking new perspective on the Milky Way’s position in the cosmos. Far from floating in a symmetrical halo, the galaxy appears embedded in a massive, flat structure composed almost entirely of dark matter. The finding reframes a decades-long mystery: why nearby galaxies are receding more slowly than
Somewhere along the muddy shores of the U.S. East Coast lives a creature that may hold the blueprint to biological immortality. The scarlet sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis), a seemingly modest marine animal, is now the focus of cutting-edge research that could shift our understanding of aging. Researchers from the University of Vienna have uncovered a
A NASA spacecraft has just reached its permanent observation point to begin a mission unlike any before. Known as IMAP, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe will track invisible particles that emerge where our Solar System ends and interstellar space begins. It may soon reveal the first accurate map of that boundary. Though it launched
For the first time, scientists have mapped Antarctica’s buried landscape in high resolution beneath the continent’s thick ice sheet. The results uncover geological features previously invisible to researchers and promise to improve how ice sheet behavior is understood. The map, created by combining satellite data and physics-based modeling, captures the most detailed view yet of