Category: Astronomy & Space

Mars crater deposits reveal a history of shrinking ice volumes, with mid-latitude craters (20°N–45°N) recording repeated ice ages driven by axial tilt changes

A small asteroid, designated 2023 BU, recently completed one of the closest flybys of our planet ever recorded by a…

New SXS catalog expands to 3,756 binary black hole simulations, offering a dense library of gravitational-wave waveforms for LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA analyses

Hot gaseous outflow discovered in NGC 5746, where deep XMM-Newton data reveal a biconical X‑ray halo extending tens of kpc, powered by stellar activity

A new theoretical framework is providing astrophysicists with a more intuitive method for understanding the complex and violent collisions of…

A groundbreaking analysis of two decades of orbital imagery has revealed that Martian winds are far more ferocious than previously…

A computer simulation finds that diverse personality profiles on a Mars crew boost resilience and performance over a 500-day mission, guiding crew selection

Researchers in China have proposed a novel solution to the growing crisis of orbital overcrowding: a shared, open-source satellite network…

In the dense, chaotic nurseries where massive stars are born, astronomers have observed a dramatic cosmic tug-of-war, and it appears…

Scientists observe a magnetic switchback near Earth for the first time, captured by NASA’s MMS mission as a rapid reversal in Earth’s magnetosphere today