See 1st photos of the moon's south pole by India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander (www.space.com)
India's Chandrayan-3 mission has nailed its lunar landing.
Psyche asteroid is worth $10,000-quadrillion, and NASA wants to mine it (www.earth.com)
The Psyche asteroid, a celestial object laden with precious metals and valued at an astounding $10,000 quadrillion.
New algorithm spots 'potentially hazardous' 600-foot asteroid (gizmodo.com)
Armed with this promising new tool, a cutting-edge observatory in Chile will sweep the cosmos for all sorts of transient objects.
NASA funds moon projects to help missions to ‘live off the land’ (www.msn.com)
NASA took a significant step Tuesday toward allowing humans on the moon to “live off the land,” awarding several contracts to build landing pads, roads and habitats on the lunar surface, use nuclear power for energy, and even lay a high-voltage power line over half a mile....
Sex in space: Why it's worrying that the space tourism sector hasn't considered the consequences (phys.org)
Massive galaxy with no dark matter is a cosmic puzzle (www.space.com)
"This result does not fit in with the currently accepted cosmological models, which include dark matter."
Two supermoons are coming to our skies in August, including a rare blue moon (www.earth.com)
In a rare astronomical event, August 2023 stargazers will see two supermoons, coupled with the appearance of an elusive blue moon
A Jupiter-sized dwarf star burns half as hot as a campfire (www.popsci.com)
The 'ultracool' star is possibly around 44 times as dense as our solar system's largest member—the gas giant Jupiter.
Water on Mars carved deep gullies and left a 'great puzzle' for Red Planet history (www.space.com)
"They look very Earth-like, but they're on Mars, so how could they form there?"
Upgrades to Kennedy Ground Systems Near Completion for Artemis II (www.nasa.gov)
Upgrades to Kennedy Ground Systems near completion for Artemis II.
Stacked photo of Venus, taken by me last night. (media.kbin.social)
What were the first words spoken on the moon for each mission? (kbin.social)
Everyone knows Neil Armstrong's first words from the Moon were "That's one small step for (a) man; one giant leap for mankind," but what about the other astronauts and later missions? I picked through transcripts of each mission to find out....
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Neptune-sized exoplanet is too big for its host star (arstechnica.com)
Stars this small shouldn't make planets this big.
China says its space station—seen in new photos—is poised for growth (arstechnica.com)
Tiangong could now outlive the older, larger International Space Station.
Astronomers watched a massive star disappear. JWST might have some answers (phys.org)
In 2009 a giant star 25 times more massive than the sun simply vanished. OK, it wasn't quite that simple. It underwent a period of brightening, increasing in luminosity to a million suns, just as if it was ready to explode into a supernova. But then it faded rather than exploding. And when astronomers tried to see the star using...
'Einstein ring' snapped by James Webb Space Telescope is most distant gravitationally lensed object ever seen (www.space.com)
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of a perfectly formed Einstein ring, which is also the most distant gravitationally lensed object ever detected.
Sleeping on the ISS isn't easy. This lamp for astronauts could help (www.space.com)
ISS inhabitants sleep strapped to the wall and experience 16 sunrises a day.
Strange Neptune-Sized Planet Is Denser Than Steel – May Be Result of a Giant Planetary Clash (scitechdaily.com)
New Giant Planet Is Evidence of Possible Planetary Collisions A Neptune-sized planet denser than steel has been discovered by an international team of astronomers, who believe its composition could be the result of a giant planetary clash. TOI-1853b's mass is almost twice that of any other similar
Which U.S. states will October's 'ring of fire' solar eclipse be visible from? (www.space.com)
On October 14, 2023, the Americas will experience a partial solar eclipse, but from only eight U.S. states will it be possible to see the 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse.
NASA Surprised by Cracks in Ancient Martian Mud Discovered by Mars Curiosity Rover (scitechdaily.com)
New research suggests the same conditions that created the cracks could have been favorable to the emergence of microscopic life. Scientists aren’t entirely sure how life began on Earth, but one prevailing theory posits that persistent cycles of wet and dry conditions on land helped assemble the
The "airless" Moon really does have an atmosphere, after all (bigthink.com)
We once thought the Moon was completely airless, but it turns out it has an atmosphere, after all. Even wilder: it has a tail of its own.
NASA working to get private space stations up and running before ISS retires in 2030 (www.space.com)
Microgravity research and technology development on the ISS will continue "full throttle" through the end of 2030, the agency says.
Two tiny stars fit into an orbit smaller than our sun (www.popsci.com)
One of the objects is a brown dwarf, which has a much more mass than a typical planet but isn't big enough to be a proper star.