Early in December, the U.S. Space Force‘s Combat Forces Command (CFC) formally accepted operational responsibility for the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) after the successful completion of a series of tests. This advanced radar system…
Title: The Flying Saucer edge-on disc’s Near Infrared silhouette revealed by the JWST JEDIce program
Authors: E. Dartois, J. A. Noble, J. B. Bergner, K. M. Pontoppidan, K. Assani, D. Harsono, M. K. McClure, J. C. Santos, W. E….
A new generation of rockets aims to unlock new business models in space, including the science fiction dream of extracting resources from asteroids.
Researchers are taking a closer look at asteroids to figure out which of these…
Oregon’s second-tallest mountain has been hiding. Fires in 2017 and 2020 burned the easiest route to Mount Jefferson, closing the Whitewater Creek Trail for eight long years.
This past winter, I snowshoed up that trail to see if…
Antarctic icefish are famous for living without red blood cells, but they are not alone.
A species of needle-shaped, warm-water fish called the Asian noodlefish also lacks hemoglobin and red blood cells. Like icefish, its veins are…
Nathalie Cabrol is no ordinary scientist. The astrobiologist holds two records for the highest-altitude scuba dives. She achieved them unintentionally while exploring the lake at Licancabur, a nearly 6,000-meter-high volcano on the border between…
Detailed measurements collected in metropolitan Tel Aviv, Israel, have revealed how the ebb and flow of traffic throughout the week affects the electric field generated by Earth’s atmosphere.
Led by researchers from The Hebrew University of…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has peered nearly 400 million miles farther into space than existing observations of an especially large planet-forming disk, and in doing so has set a new record for the most enormous-yet protoplanetary…
Want to know when each planet will be at its best or when you can catch eye-catching planetary pairings in 2026?
This guide breaks down the major planetary events of the year, from conjunctions to oppositions to close planet-star encounters.
Astronomers have found a planet-forming disk that looks like a solar system on steroids.
New images from NASA‘s Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of…