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...

researchers, educators, and astronomy enthusiasts to explore fresh perspectives on distant cosmic regions. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Reiter Stellar Birth and Galactic Evolution Unveiled The captured region contains a blend of stars and...

Katalyst Space’s LINK spacecraft hits a recovery milestone as it readies for a planned orbital boost to NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Katalyst Space announced that its LINK spacecraft has successfully slowed its uncontrolled spin, a critical...

core‑mass fraction of 0.33. Blue circles represent planets extracted from the Hypatia catalog (Hinkel et al., 2014) and the NASA exoplanet archive (Akeson et al., 2013; Christiansen et al., 2025). Uncertainty in planetary potential temperature stems...

data before continuing into interstellar space. Light sails can propel spacecraft using the energy of the Sun. Credit: NASA/Aero Animation/Ben Schweighart Solar Sails Demonstrate Near‑Term Propulsion While laser‑driven sails remain a long‑range...

billion years. The interval between them has lacked any shergottite evidence, obscuring a key phase of Martian volcanism. NASA’s Perseverance rover found this unusual speckled white rock called Atoko Point last year. It has a granite-like appearance and...

The little red dots could represent galaxies in an evolutionary phase predating the luminous quasar phase. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/ISTA/ETH Zurich/NAOJ Fainter Companion Raises Additional Questions A second source, labeled A2, displays a similarly...

or other magnetic concentrations. By jointly analysing acoustic‑wave power maps and magnetic‑field measurements from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), the researchers trained EarlyDetect to spot the subtle signatures that precede visible...

It’s huge.” Comparison of Vega and MoM‑BH‑1 spectra highlights the unusual star‑like features detected by JWST. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, DAWN JWST Archive, HST CALSPEC (Ralph Bohlin, Karl D. Gordon, P.-E Tremblay), JWST Mirage or Miracle Survey...

In August 2026 Third Quarter On Aug. 5, New Moon On Aug. 12, First Quarter On Aug. 19, And Full Moon On Aug. 27 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Observing the Moon near its rise can be especially dramatic. When the Moon sits low on the horizon, the classic Moon...

ecosystems. Geographical location of the Gonghe Photovoltaic Park and distribution of observation points. © ArcGIS 10.8/NASA Quantifying Ecological Health To evaluate the facility’s footprint, researchers divided the study site into three distinct...

on how worlds are constructed. The planet, which measures about 2.55 times the radius of Earth, was initially detected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). By monitoring the subtle periodic dimming of a host star, researchers...

Telescope (LFT3) mission. Credit: Lunar Farside Transients and Technology Telescope The mission team proposes utilizing NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) to deliver the telescope to the lunar surface. With an estimated budget of $150...

half times the size of Earth, which is not what we expected at all." Radius-density diagram of confirmed exoplanets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive with radii below 5​R⊕ and mass and radius measurements significant at better than 4​σ. (CREDIT: Max Kroft...

instead revealed a 200,000-light-year trail of young blue stars stretching toward the galaxy at upper right. (CREDIT: NASA, ESA, Pieter van Dokkum (Yale); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)) Kinetic Recoil from Asymmetric Mergers The team...

the amount of reflected light. By synthesizing historical data from the Kepler Space Telescope with fresh measurements from NASA’s TESS mission taken six years later, researchers detected an unexpected phase shift in this light modulation. A graphic...

is currently under intense scrutiny from both the aerospace industry and government partners, particularly given its role in NASA Artemis missions. As a planned human landing system, the Starship must demonstrate not only survivability but also the...

and those driven by subsurface gas transport. The images were taken by Landsat 9’s OLI-2 instrument on June 27, 2023. © NASA Current research efforts are now focused on establishing the precise mechanisms that connect these surface expressions to the...

and scientifically rich zones on the Moon. This region is of particular interest to global space agencies—including NASA—because its permanently shadowed craters are believed to harbor significant deposits of water ice. Harvesting such resources could...