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A striking satellite image of Tonga’s Tofua Island, taken on April 23, 2022, has captured smoke rising from a volcanic cone known as Lofia. The image, captured by Landsat 9, offers a sobering reminder that Tofua, despite its relative calm in…

Dark energy could have an accomplice that helps it slow the growth of large cosmic structures, such as vast superclusters made up of clusters of galaxies.

A new analysis of astronomical data suggests unknown physics is at work assisting dark…

WASHINGTON — NASA and Northrop Grumman will not launch a Cygnus cargo mission to the International Space Station in June as previously planned after discovering the spacecraft is damaged.

In a statement March 26, NASA said the Pressurized…

The Blue Ghost lunar lander’s mission may have ended, now resting lifeless on the Moon’s surface, but its success has secured its place in history.

Blue Ghost was a rare success in NASA’s CLPS and Artemis lunar mission programs…

You’ve just finished planting your containers with flowers, herbs, or veggies, only to come outside later to find your plants uprooted and dirt scattered everywhere. What just happened here?

Chances are your neighborhood squirrels are to…

On the library’s side, some people thought Ginsparg was too hands-on. Others said he wasn’t patient enough. A “good lower-level manager,” according to someone long involved with arXiv, “but his sense of management didn’t scale.” For…

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Two NASA rockets launched from Alaska on March 25, 2025, lit up the night sky with strange blue lights and white vapor trails to the backdrop of the Northern Lights. The spectacular display was visible across central and northern Alaska.

Skywatchers and astronomy enthusiasts are in for a spectacular celestial event as a partial solar eclipse is set to occur on March 29, 2025. This breathtaking phenomenon will follow a total lunar eclipse that took place just weeks earlier,…

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore recently returned home after an unexpected nine-month stay on the International Space Station. Now, they’re in recovery mode.

“When you’re in this…