ALMA finds rings and gaps in compact planet-forming disks
Astronomers using ALMA at its sharpest setting found substructures within 10 astronomical units in four of 11 compact…
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Europe’s Moon drill, built to cut a metre down, passes a deployment test
ESA's Prospect drill, due to search for water ice near the lunar South Pole in 2027, has been…
Satellite night lights show Isaias darkening Pensacola, and the glow back within days
NASA's Black Marble HD imagery shows lights dropping sharply around Pensacola and U.S. Route 98 after Isaias, then…
Starbase could host up to 456 Starship launches a year, FAA review says
The FAA has opened scoping for an environmental impact statement covering up to 456 Starship-Super Heavy launches and…
Tiny asteroid 2025 UK9 to pass closer than the Moon on Oct. 31
NASA/JPL lists the small asteroid 2025 UK9 passing 314,648 km from Earth on Oct. 31. Sentry also tracks…
Dragon’s 6,300 pounds of cargo opens a science rush on the space station
Five spacecraft are docked at the space station as the crew unloads SpaceX's CRS-35 Dragon and starts experiments,…
Hubble images a dust-lined galaxy, one of 111 done in a 260-galaxy survey
NASA's Hubble photographed the edge-on spiral NGC 1827, 37 million light-years away, as part of a survey of…
Marshall legend Stephen Cash returns as center director after a decade away
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has picked a veteran propulsion and safety engineer who left the agency in 2016…
Nine launches this week, led by Japan’s H3 sending MMX toward Mars’ moon Phobos
Japan's H3 is scheduled to send the MMX probe toward Phobos on Oct 19, one of nine orbital…
Artemis II’s heat shield lost far less material than on Artemis I: 9 spots versus 103
NASA's analysis found Orion's heat shield performed as expected on Artemis II: pieces of its charred outer layer…
A-Carinid meteors flare again, with naked-eye rates near 10 an hour
CAMS observers report that the A-Carinid meteor shower, absent in most years, was active on Oct. 12-16, with…
Phobos sample return: NASA’s 15% share and the Mars moon mission launching Oct. 19
JAXA's MMX is scheduled to launch on Oct. 19 to study Phobos and Deimos, with NASA providing two…