After website closure, Trump administration abandons plan to post climate reports on NASA site
Announced on July 13, the decision comes after the government websites for the National Climate Assessments were taken offline.
Updated: Jul 25, 2025 | By Raj Naik
100 'orphan galaxies' are surrounding our Milky Way—and they are just now coming into view
While approximately 60 satellite galaxies have been identified, the findings indicate dozens of others could be orbiting our galaxy nearby.
Published: Jul 16, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Titan’s shadow to transit Saturn on July 18 in a rare event — how and when to watch
Approximately every 15 years, Titan casts its small, dark shadow upon Saturn's disk.
Published: Jul 15, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Ancient interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be billions of years older than our solar system
The 'water ice-rich' interstellar object is only the third known object from beyond the solar system ever reported in our cosmic neighbourhood.
Updated: Dec 4, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Nearby supernova explosions could be behind two of Earth's mass extinctions, says new study
Researchers point to supernovae as the probable cause for the late Devonian (372 million years away) and older Ordovician (445 million years away) extinction events.
Published: Jul 14, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Chang'e-6 samples reveal ancient volcanoes rocked the Moon’s far side for a billion years, surprising scientists
On May 3, 2024, the Chang'e-6 probe launched and successfully gathered 1,935.3 grams of samples from the Moon's South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin.
Updated: Jul 25, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Tiny 50-gram meteorite from Morocco could reshape our understanding of when the solar system formed
New research on the meteorite's tiny fragments directly contests the long-held scientific view that inner solar system planets formed earlier than outer ones.
Published: Jul 12, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Astronomers believe the Milky Way is inside a giant cosmic hole—why it's important for 'Hubble tension'
The 'Hubble tension' arises from the conflicting early universe expansion predictions versus faster local observations.
Published: Jul 12, 2025 | By Raj Naik
NASA astronaut shares mind-boggling time-exposure image of lightning from the ISS
A captivating 25-minute time exposure reveals Earth's sequential lightning flashes brightly illuminating the planet.
Updated: Jul 21, 2025 | By Raj Naik
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe unveils the closest-ever images to the Sun, taken just 3.8 million miles away
These incredible images are giving scientists vital new information about space weather events that could affect Earth.
Updated: Jul 21, 2025 | By Raj Naik
'Dinosaur footprints' on Mars? NASA's Curiosity rover investigates strange rock formation on the planet
The rock will undergo thorough analysis using the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS), Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), and Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instruments.
Published: Jul 10, 2025 | By Raj Naik
NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a critical clue explaining why Mars is uninhabitable
Central to the research is NASA's Curiosity rover's discovery of carbonate-rich rocks that, like limestone, absorb and sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Published: Jul 9, 2025 | By Raj Naik
NASA's Mars Sample Return mission could be saved by new Lockheed Martin proposal
To retrieve the valuable Martian samples from the Perseverance rover, Lockheed Martin has introduced a significantly more cost-effective mission design.
Published: Jul 9, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Climate scientists raise concerns as the U.S. announces plans to stop sharing vital satellite data on sea ice
Losing access to this ongoing data severely limits scientists' capacity to monitor climate change and assess the escalating threat of sea-level increases.
Published: Jul 7, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Earth is predicted to spin faster than usual on three specific dates in July and August
Scientists are predicting Earth will continue its trend of record-setting rapid rotations in 2025, with notably shorter days expected around July 9, July 22, and August 5.
Published: Jul 5, 2025 | By Raj Naik
Citizen astronomers discover more than 10,000 eclipsing binary star systems with NASA's help
Out of the 10,000-plus systems, a majority of them had never been discovered by astrophysicists in the past.
Published: Jul 5, 2025 | By Tom Urbain
Astronomers uncover 'cosmic fossil' galaxy offering glimpse into early universe's seven-billion-year history
Like Earth's dinosaur fossils that unlock secrets of prehistoric life, the galaxy KiDS J0842+0059 provides an extraordinary look at the universe's initial stages.
Published: Jul 4, 2025 | By Raj Naik
NASA and SpaceX prepare for a late July to early August liftoff of Crew-11 mission from Kennedy Space Center
This flight is the eleventh crew rotation to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
Published: Jul 3, 2025 | By Raj Naik
AI assistant may help astronauts solve emergencies in space
Daphne-AT is a virtual assistant that uses a blend of logic and real-time spacecraft data to pinpoint issues, determine their cause, and offer astronauts solutions for informed decision-making.
Published: Jul 1, 2025 | By Raj Naik
If we spent one second per galaxy, it would take 634 years to see all the galaxies Vera Rubin will capture in 10 years
The observatory is expected to document 20 billion galaxies over its ten-year lifespan, accounting for about one-tenth of the visible universe's estimated galactic population.
Published: Jun 29, 2025 | By Raj Naik