accompany moonrise. The interplay of these effects creates one of the year’s most photogenic lunar scenes. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Origins of the Buck Moon Name Across Cultures The label “Buck Moon” stems from several Indigenous peoples who noted that...

NASA’s New Horizons may soon cross a mysterious solar system boundary, offering fresh insights into the outer frontier. NASA’s New Horizons probe is closing in on a landmark phase of its journey. After reshaping our picture of Pluto and the Kuiper...

These datasets therefore feed directly into models that reconstruct lunar and planetary evolution. Credit: Courtesy of NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/SwRI The appeal of AI in this field stems from the sheer volume of craters that need to be...

for the First Moon Landing Launched from Kennedy Space Center on 18 May 1969, Apollo 10 was the fourth crewed flight in NASA’s Apollo series and a full‑scale test of the hardware and procedures required for a lunar landing – minus the actual touchdown....

NASA Chandra’s 10‑year study shows supernova remnant G292.0+1.8 expanding unevenly, a puzzling clue that could rewrite how we view stellar explosions. Ten years of observations with NASA’s Chandra X‑ray Observatory have exposed an irregular expansion...

a bit of greenish glow is visible to the right. The Andromeda Galaxy appears at the top just to the left of center.Credit: NASA/Preston Dyches Venus Joins the Twilight Canvas As darkness settles on July 16, the thin crescent moon rises low in the west...

atmosphere to what the surface is like?” Piaulet‑Ghorayeb noted. Artist’s illustration of the exoplanet TOI‑270 d. Credit: NASA Water’s behavior under extreme pressure and temperature adds another layer of complexity. Depending on those conditions, it...

roadmap. The company expects this iteration to play a central role in upcoming missions, including those aligned with NASA’s Artemis program. NASA has chosen a modified Starship design for its lunar exploration plans, envisioning the vehicle for future...

earlier expectations. Optical oceanographer Chuanmin Hu of the University of South Florida identified this shift through NASA satellite imagery and coined the term Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. His analysis shows the belt now recurs each spring and...

environment. Alliance Spacesystems, Inc., the manufacturer behind the robotic limbs, previously supplied mechanisms for NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars. Collaboration among NASA, DARPA and other agencies over many years helped translate laboratory...

density can tip the balance between a successful landing and a mission‑ending crash.” The atmosphere of Mars Credit: NASA:JPL-Caltech:MSSS How Martian Clouds Influence Descent Dynamics Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, the work...

compared terrestrial measurements of lava flow textures and micro‑scale geological features with data acquired by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and its Mini‑RF radar instrument. By aligning these datasets, the scientists sought to understand...

at the north‑east end of Enewetak Ayoll — about 30 kilometres from communities that use the lagoon as a food source. Credit: NASA/USGS From 1946 to 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear devices across Enewetak and Bikini Atolls, forcing more than...

is positioned at the center and the calculated positions of Neptune’s rings are overlaid in gray.Credit: Davis et al. 2026; NASA/ESA/CSA JWST data Clues Point to a Catastrophic Capture Event The researchers propose that Triton—originally a Kuiper‑belt...

unclassifiable polygons are grouped into a seventh class for mapping purposes but there is no type example. Base images are NASA Magellan left-looking synthetic aperture radar data with a source resolution of ∼100 m. The scale bar is 10 km in each case,...

it merely records light that ordinary cameras and the human eye would miss. Why Visible Light Can Remain Undetectable NASA defines visible light as the narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum that human eyes normally perceive, roughly between 380...

authors wrote. This side‑by‑side graphic compares X‑ray and optical views of the galaxy cluster Abell 2029. Credit: X‑ray: NASA/CXC/UCI/A.Lewis et al. Optical: Pal.Obs. DSS The presence of these peripheral structures supports the view that IC 1101 is...

Huge aquifers, underground deposits of sand and rock that also contain water, lurked underneath the scorching sands. Credit: NASA/Jesse Allen/Earth Observatory Ancient Waters Locked Beneath the Sahara The pipeline draws its supply from the Nubian...

Pacific oceans. This pattern aligns with Miller’s 2021 satellite study using the VIIRS Day/Night Band (DNB) aboard the NOAA‑NASA Suomi NPP platform, which identified 12 confirmed milky sea events from 2012 to 2021. The DNB can detect illumination up to...

Outbursts Captured in a Single Observation Window An animation built from ASPIICS data, together with observations from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and its Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, shows the solar disk as a dark orange disc surrounded by a...