University of Sydney partners with Spiral Blue for the TOLIMAN space telescope mission to look for habitable planets using artificial intelligence. Backed by the Breakthrough Initiatives, Professor Peter Tuthill will…
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XRISM spacecraft will open new window on the X-ray cosmos
This artist’s concept shows a face-on view of the XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The upcoming XRISM (X-ray Imaging and…
Watch Exoplanet’s 17-Year Journey Around its Star
Longest time-lapse footage of an exoplanet to date was assembled from real data. A Northwestern University astrophysicist has created the longest time-lapse video of an exoplanet to date. Constructed from…
‘Cosmic Lens’ Reveals Distant Galaxies With Dark Matter
A new image taken with the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a variety of unusual, distorted galaxies in the distant universe, magnified by a “gravitational lens” – a massive galaxy…
Intuitive Machines sets Nov. 15 launch date for moon lander
A new private moon-landing mission could launch as soon as November. Intuitive Machines says its moon lander could be ready for liftoff as soon as Nov. 15, pending last-minute preparation. This…
Could puncturing a satellite’s battery help it deorbit faster?
Visual depiction of Kessler syndrome. Credit: NASA Orbital Debris Program Office A few years ago, there was a panic about lithium-ion batteries that exploded and could do things like take…
Searching for the universe’s missing teenage pictures
A line intensity image appears smeared compared to traditional galaxy survey images. Credit: Patrick Breysse Astrophysicists can use measurements of the cosmic microwave background, radiation formed 380,000 years after the…
Mars once had wet-dry climate conducive to supporting life: Study
An image taken by the Curiosity rover showing the hexagonal cracked mud in a Martian crater that was once a vast lake. NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered the first evidence…
Hundred-year storms? That’s how long they last on Saturn
In the optical, Saturn’s banded atmosphere appears to smoothly shift from color to color. But seen here in radio light — VLA data overlays a Cassini image of Saturn —…
