Even for Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, a recent volcanic event witnessed by NASA’s Juno spacecraft takes the biscuit. The event was just one…
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Surprising signatures in WASP-121b’s dynamic atmosphere challenge understanding of how ‘roasting marshmallows’ form
Artist impression of a hot Jupiter Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/M. Zamani Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas…
Testing tech in lava tubes for future space exploration
DLR’s SCOUT Rover is designed to explore the complex terrain of lava tubes. Credit: Roy Lichtenheldt, DLR What does an ancient lava tube in the Canary Islands have in common…
NASA astronaut Suni Williams sets new record on 5.5-hour spacewalk outside ISS (video)
Two NASA astronauts working outside of the International Space Station on Thursday (Jan. 30) were able to finally remove a faulty radio communications unit, succeeding where two previous spacewalks had…
NASA X-ray telescope discovers black holes ‘blow’ on their food to cool it down
Anyone who has experienced the blistering pain associated with biting into a fresh apple pastry or taking a swig of hot coffee can attest to the importance of blowing on…
How well could Earth life survive on exoplanets?
This table from the research shows the planetary and stellar characteristics used in the GCM simulations. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.05297 Next, they considered whether Earth microbes could survive in…
SpaceX mission to return US astronauts to happen ‘soon’: Trump
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the ISS in June aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Elon Musk’s company SpaceX will “soon” begin a…
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander snaps its 1st photos of the moon (images)
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost moon lander has snapped its first photos of its distant target. On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost…
SpaceX checks off launch No. 9 from Florida’s Space Coast
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain After a week of nasty weather across Florida, the business of launching rockets got back on track Monday afternoon. A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off at…
Supermassive black holes in ‘little red dot’ galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don’t know why
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered distant, overly massive supermassive black holes in the early universe. The black holes seem way too massive compared to the…
