James Webb and Artemis 2 inspire cosmic Pink Floyd music experience
Artist Ashley Zelinskie and DJ illich Mujica get psychedelic in New York City.
Astronomy & Space
Chennai City Lights
Chennai, on India’s southern coast along the Bay of Bengal and with a metropolitan population of about 8.7 million, shines with white LED streetlights in this photograph taken at approximately…
NASA’s Psyche Sends Back Amazing Images of Mars
NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission made a course adjustment via a flyby past Mars en route to its final destination. Here’s what it saw.
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Artemis 2 Rocket Boosters Stand Ready for Historic Moon Mission
The two boosters hang out mid-air after separation.
Galaxy neighborhoods shaped their development just after the Big Bang
A large protocluster of galaxies that existed 12.6 billion years ago, first discovered with the Subaru Telescope, has been examined in detail using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The study…
Could a cosmic uncertainty principle help explain dark matter?
The universe may have its own version of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, and that might be enough to explain dark energy without invoking any new physics at all.
Mercury’s Water Ice Arrived in a Single Day From Giant Impact
The source of the significant water ice deposits hidden in Mercury’s polar regions has been a topic of debate among researchers. A new study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research:…
New Instrument Used Antarctic Ice Sheet to Probe Extreme Universe
The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) is a NASA Astrophysics Pioneers Program mission designed to detect the most energetic particles in the universe.
Solar storms may be more powerful than scientists previously believed
Researchers analyzing crimson auroras over Japan found the glowing displays stretched hundreds of miles higher into Earth’s atmosphere than expected, challenging long-held assumptions about the…
Solar storms may be more powerful than scientists previously believed
Researchers analyzing crimson auroras over Japan found the glowing displays stretched hundreds of miles higher into Earth’s atmosphere than expected, challenging long-held assumptions about the…