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NASA’s new moon images show the crater SpaceX’s Falcon 9 punched into the surface
It took six days of orbital patience to get the shot. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter had to wait for its own path and a fresh scar on the…
Physicists caught a shut-down nuclear reactor’s faint antineutrino afterglow
Switch off a nuclear reactor and the core doesn’t go quiet. It goes dim. Long-lived radioactive fission products keep decaying inside the fuel for months, sometimes years, leaking…
Scientists turned Starlink into a 1,200-satellite atmosphere scanner
More than 99 percent of Earth’s upper atmosphere is electrically neutral gas, which is precisely the part our instruments struggle to see. The other sliver, the ionized gas…
81 seconds of darkness: ESA broadcasts the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse live from Spain
The narrow path where the Moon fully blocks the Sun on Aug. 12, 2026 clips a corner of Europe and not much more. Greenland, Iceland, a small part…
NASA just bought Voyager 2 more time before its power ran out
Voyager 2 loses about 4 watts of usable power every year, and it has been losing them since the Nixon administration was still in office. That arithmetic was…
Tiny plasma whirlpools cover the sun and nobody had seen them until now
Twenty kilometers. That’s the size of the structures scientists had to resolve on the surface of the sun to catch what they were looking for, and it sits…
Perseverance drives itself past every rover ever sent to Mars
Ninety percent of the distance NASA’s Perseverance rover has covered on Mars, it drove without anyone on Earth telling it where to go. Its predecessor Curiosity managed about…
NASA’s Mars rover twin may be promised to the moon instead
The rover NASA wants to drive across the lunar south pole is already built. It’s sitting on Earth, and it has been the whole time. Curiosity and Perseverance…
The world’s largest solar telescope caught vortexes rolling across the Sun’s surface
For a century and a half, physicists have known exactly what should happen when two fluids slide past each other at different speeds. The boundary buckles. Then it…
