1+ hour, 7+ min ago  (1033+ words) By testing 30 million trajectories, researchers uncovered a lunar transfer route that leads to big savings in mission cost. Sending spacecraft to the moon is not just about reaching it " it's about how little fuel you can spend doing so. In…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (20+ words) The observations provide the most detailed picture yet of where Uranus' auroras form and how energy moves through its atmosphere....

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (407+ words) The energy in XUV beam was over three orders of magnitude brighter than previous measurements but could not be directly measured. A team of researchers from the University of Oxford and Queen's University Belfast in the UK has demonstrated that…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (575+ words) Artemis III will rehearse future Moon landing operations in Earth orbit with Orion, Space X Starship systems, and Blue Origin hardware. NASA is overhauling its lunar exploration timeline with a new Earth-orbit mission that will serve as a full-scale rehearsal…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago  (520+ words) Researchers used James Webb telescope data to chart 164, 000 galaxies and reveal the deepest view yet of the universe's vast cosmic web. Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have created the most detailed map yet of the universe's vast cosmic…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (598+ words) Researchers investigate how nanometer-sized particles form and survive in the harsh, high-speed winds of nearing-death Wolf-Rayet stars....

6+ day, 16+ hour ago  (186+ words) Messier 77 is also an active spiral galaxy with a disc rich in gas and dust. The central region of Messier 77 is dominated by an extremely compact and energetic source that outshines the rest of the galaxy combined, even challenging the…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago  (809+ words) Scientists used warped "dancing jets" to capture the first real-time measurement of a black hole"s explosive power. Black holes are known for swallowing everything around them, but some of them also fire out colossal jets of energy that can…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (889+ words) The mystery becomes even harder to explain because planetary cores are generally thought to form quickly. Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger than the planet Mercury, hides a massive ocean beneath its ice, and is the only moon in the solar…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago  (999+ words) The moon's deepest exposed materials may lie near the lunar south pole, right where Artemis astronauts could explore. More than four billion years ago, something enormous slammed into the moon hard enough to carve out a scar wider than India,…...