SpaceX lofted another batch of classified U.S. spy satellites into orbit Monday night, extending a buildout of the National Reconnaissance Office’s distributed surveillance network that has now become ...
NASA’s Artemis site selection team finished the most exhaustive survey of the lunar South Pole ever attempted and came back with a list that would fit on an index card: candidate regions where the ...
The starburst etched into the lower-left corner of Voyager’s Golden Record cover is neither decoration nor a picture of an explosion. Fourteen of its rays extend from the Solar System towards pulsars, ...
Visualization of the Moon's far side using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data. Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio / Ernie Wright. The phrase “dark side of the Moon” is one of those ...
A pocket of dark blue water beneath ice on Earth. Photo by wal_ 172619 via Pexels; this is a representative image, not a photograph of a moon. Liquid water is not confined to Earth or to worlds close ...
The source of the distinctive 52-hertz call was tracked acoustically but never conclusively identified. Original editorial illustration created for this article. Somewhere in the North Pacific, an ...
Sitting on a crowded island with no natural freshwater sources of your own is an uncomfortable position for a country to be in. There are no large rivers or natural lakes, and limited land to catch ...
Illustration of a deep-space probe among the stars. Image: Paul Seling / Pexels. In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense. Voyager 1, more than ...
The Huygens probe, dropped from the Cassini orbiter in January 2005, parachuted through an orange smog and photographed something no camera had ever seen from the ground: a floodplain of rounded ...
Long-exposure star trails. Reaching the speed of light is impossible for anything with mass, and the streaking-stars image of lightspeed travel remains science fiction. Image: Baris Karagoz / Pexels.
Conceptual artwork of a distant planet. Image by Rodolfo Boscan via Pexels. This is a representative illustration, not an observed image or scientific reconstruction of LHS 1140 b. A planet 48 ...
A representative Antarctic ice shelf photographed by Francesco Ungaro via Pexels. It is not Lake Vostok or the inland ice above it; the subglacial lake is invisible from the surface. At Russia’s ...
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