The Milky Way nebula RCW 36 resembles a stunning cosmic bird of prey in an incredible Very Large Telescope image.
Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet’s oldest, most heavily cratered regions, a landscape shaped by billions of years of impacts, volcanism and erosion.
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The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed our lunar companion is safe for now from an asteroid impact.
Tests involving growing chickpea plants in lunar regolith treated with vermicompost and fungi yielded harvestable crops — but are they edible?
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Astronomers have unveiled one of the most ambitious maps yet of the early universe, revealing a vast “sea of light” between galaxies that had remained otherwise hidden in previous surveys.
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Ganymede’s auroras splinter into small, bright patches — structures that mirror features seen in Earth’s own auroral displays.
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The James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning spiral galaxy 65 million light-years away, revealing glowing dust clouds and stellar nurseries.
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By fertilizing inorganic regolith with organic human waste that has been processed through bioreactors, future astronauts living on Mars could be able to create their own organic soil.
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The galaxy NGC 941 was imaged by the Subaru Telescope at the summit of Maunakea, Hawai’i.
“TIC 120362137 is currently the most compact known 3+1-type quadruple star system.”