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Venus’s pale yellow clouds may hide something surprisingly dark
1+ hour, 24+ min ago (953+ words) Venus looks pale yellow in ordinary visible light, but the view changes dramatically in ultraviolet wavelengths. There, dark and bright features sweep across the planet's upper sulfuric acid clouds. Scientists have observed these patterns for about a century, yet the…...
Space News: NASA rocket takes first multi-point look inside radio-disrupting clouds
1+ week, 1+ day ago (474+ words) High above Earth, thin veils of metallic haze drift through the edge of space. Known as sporadic E layers, these high-altitude “clouds” form from the vaporized dust of burnt-up meteors, earning their name from the unpredictable way they emerge and…...
Astronomers Spotted a 'Bear' on Mars
5+ hour, 8+ min ago (186+ words) On 12 December 2022, an orbiter traveling 251 kilometers (156 miles) above the southern highlands of Mars photographed a hill....
NASA Answers President Trump???s Call to Establish the United States Space Academy
2+ day, 31+ min ago (439+ words) NASA-led work is in full swing to make the academy a reality and shape the future of America’s aerospace workforce and leadership. Home » Home » NASA Answers President Trump’s Call to Establish the United States Space Academy Executive Order was signed…...
A Breakthrough Listen survey was thought to have covered about 288,000 stars catalogued by Gaia. But a new simulation of the Milky Way estimates that more than 6.18 million stars actually fell within its radio-telescope beams—millions of potential worlds too faint or distant for Gaia to catalogue reliably, yet still within range if they were transmitting strongly enough.
10+ hour, 38+ min ago (1228+ words) A Besançon Galaxy Model reanalysis expands Breakthrough Listen's stellar bycatch to 6,182,364 simulated objects, while strong transmitter limits remain conditional on distance, power and duty cycle....
Radia’s WindRunner targets next challenge in space logistics
10+ hour, 41+ min ago (522+ words) Purpose built around cargo volume, not simply payload weight, WindRunner enables direct delivery of outsized space systems to launch sites, manufacturing facilities, and austere or distributed locations without disassembly....
beyond the last observer
7+ hour, 22+ min ago (443+ words) Something can happen without anyone witnessing it.. A star can collapse in a distant galaxy with no observer present, Its light can travel across the universe for billions of …...
Earth May Have Had a Larger Cousin that the Sun Devoured
12+ hour, 7+ min ago (399+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 1:01 PM EDT Did the Earth once have a larger cousin that was devoured by the Sun? And more importantly: would we have any way of knowing it did? A team of astronomers believe that the answer to both…...