Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain NASA hit back on Thursday at reality TV star Kim Kardashian’s claim that the 1969 moon landing “didn’t happen,” a theory consistently debunked over decades. “Yes,…
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‘Ghost particles’ can zoom through you without a trace. Scientists are getting to the bottom of this cosmic mystery
Imagine a particle so ghostly that over 100 trillion of them could pass through you every single second without you noticing anything at all. Spooky, right? Well, believe it or…
We’re putting lots of transition metals into the stratosphere. That’s not good.
Reentry of the Jules Verne spacecraft showing it breaking apart. Credit: NASA/ESA/Bill Moede and Jesse Carpenter We successfully plugged the hole in the ozone layer that was discovered in the…
Europe is working to develop reusable rockets by the early 2030s
Europe’s ArianeGroup is set to fly a series of demonstrators in a bid to develop sovereign reusable launch capabilities. “Callisto, Themis and Skyhopper are different demonstration programs contributing to the…
What made the moon?
Credit: NASA Our moon—or la Luna—has inspired humankind for millennia. It’s largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten…
You won’t see interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS zoom closest to the sun on Oct. 30 — but these spacecraft will
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is just a day away from perihelion, which is its closest point to the sun and the time around which it is expected to be most…
A new, expansive view of the Milky Way reveals our galaxy in unprecedented radio color
Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way…
1st samples ever collected from the moon’s far side could help reveal where Earth got its water
Fragments of a rare type of meteorite have been found in the sample of material brought back from the lunar far side by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, and they could…
Gravitational wave events hint at ‘second-generation’ black holes
GW241011 and GW241110 infographics by Shanika Galaudage / Northwestern University / Adler Planetarium. Credit: Shanika Galaudage / Northwestern University / Adler Planetarium In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal…
