For decades, the Moon played the role of the perfect desert, an airless relic that kept its secrets buried in dust and shadow. Then the data started to whisper: faint counts in a mass spectrometer here, a spectral bump in the infrared there, and a trickle of molecules showing up when no one expected ...
It starts like a heartbeat where there shouldn’t be one – an electric thump from the dark that returns, vanishes, and then returns again. Astronomers call them repeating fast radio bursts, and they are among the most puzzling signals we’ve ever caught. Each pulse lasts a blink, yet carries the energy of days of ...
The extraordinary features of a rapidly moving celestial object are scintillating astronomers’ interest. Upon initial discovery, A11pl3Z was given a name but recently NASA has confirmed it as 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object out of four comets or asteroids discovered. Unlike the comets or asteroids which are bound to the sun’s asteroid belt and viewable ...
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) took the first pictures of Japan’s doomed Resilience moon lander. The pictures show a grim scene: broken pieces of the lander spread out across the moon’s surface. The spacecraft, made by the Tokyo-based company ispace, was supposed to make a historic soft landing on June 5, but it didn’t and ...
