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NASA astronaut Chris Williams captured a sunset from the ISS, revealing Earth’s atmosphere in vibrant color and breathtaking detail.

This monograph establishes the Observer-Catalyst Layer of the Justika Origin Theory, executing a total ontological inversion of modern astrophysics, evolutionary biology, and cosmology. Fundamentally redefining the material universe as a dynamic Projected Architecture, this doctrine proves that reality operates in a state of Quantum Semantic Latency until conscious intelligence sustains its highe…

This week, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to find the Ring Nebula in the constellation Lyra — a glowing shell of gas that offers a glimpse of our solar system’s distant future. When a Sun-like star exhausts its hydrogen, it blows off an illuminated cloud of gas that lingers for tens of Continue reading "Come full circle with the Ring Nebula" The post Come full circle w…

Lost on the Moon for nearly 40 years, this Soviet rover seemed destined to remain a relic of the space race until scientists made an unexpected discovery.

Multiverse theories are frequently invoked at points where single-universe explanations appear insufficient to account for fine-tuning, contingency, or cosmological variation. Yet discussions concerning the number, probability, or explanatory role of universes often proceed without first establishing whether the alleged multiplicity is conceptually well-formed. This paper argues that individuatio…

Nothing beats a beautiful sunset (from space) | Space photo of the day for May 26, 2026

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NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray spacecraft has observed a super-bright, supercharged supernova explosion powered up by the creation of a highly magnetic dead star, or magnetar.

This webinar will provide an overview of the current landscape of space interferometry, spanning foundational concepts, enabling technologies, mission architectures, and key astrophysical science applications. 9:00am - 10:00am PT | 12:00pm - 1:00pm ET The post ASTRA Space Interferometry Webinar, 5 June 2026 appeared first on NASA Science .

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a giant slingshot on its journey to a mysterious metal world that could reveal what’s hidden inside planets like Earth. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft successfully completed a close flyby of Mars on May 15, passing just 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers) above the planet’s surface. The maneuver used Mars’ gravity [...]

Scientists are trying to understand Venus' bright surface formations, called coronae, using new 3D maps.

Ancient asteroid craters may have been safe havens for Earth’s earliest oxygen-producing life. Scientists in South Korea have uncovered evidence suggesting that asteroid impact craters may have played an important role in the rise of oxygen-producing life on early Earth. A research team from the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) discovered stromatolites [...]

The largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating up.

NASA took advantage of the recent close approach of the Psyche probe to Mars to calibrate its observation instruments.

So i always saw those graphical diagrams of blackholes where we can an opening at the top and the cannal goes deeper into the space time fabric revealing its untra massive core but this is a 2d depiction of a 3d model ,Black holes are not circular holes in space time fabric, they... Read more

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  May 24: Egeria slides on by After reaching superior conjunction midmonth, Mercury is increasing in visibility and should be easily identifiable now in the evening sky. Just half an hour after sunset, step outside to see if you can spot the solar system’s Continue reading "The Sky Today on Monday, May 25: Three planets af…

We report a Kelvin–Helmholtz vortex (KHV) event observed at the duskside magnetopause boundary layer by the magnetospheric multiscale (MMS) satellites in conjunction with auroral beads detected in the high-latitude ionosphere by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) on 27 September 2016. During the KHV event, the MMS spacecraft were located in the low-latitude boundary layer and wer…

China launched the Shenzhou 23 spacecraft with 3 astronauts heading to its space station. One astronaut is set to stay in space for a year to explore human adaptability in long-duration spaceflights.

Because we define dates based on the stars, the full moon on 31 May will be the second one of the calendar month This week’s full moon is a blue moon. The term does not describe the colour of the moon, but instead arises from the way we define our calendar in reference to the stars rather than the moon. The moon takes almost a month to circle our planet. The exact time is 29.5 days but if we were…

Could the "Great Silence" be the result of extraterrestrial civilizations dying out before they can make contact, or will they evolve to the point where communication with them is no longer possible?