Dark matter could play 'matchmaker' for supermassive black holes (www.space.com)
interesting speculation about black holes and dark matter.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover finds possible signs of ancient Red Planet life (www.space.com)
Can the James Webb Space Telescope see galaxies over the universe's horizon? (www.space.com)
hmm, light on answers but interesting questions
'The last 12 months have broken records like never before': Earth exceeds 1.5 C warming every month for entire year (www.space.com)
cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/5089915...
Chinese scientists found that a type of moss that grows in the Tibetan Plateau and even Antarctica can also survive and thrive in Mars-like conditions. (www.space.com)
Forbidden black holes and ancient stars hide in these 'tiny red dots' (image) (www.space.com)
time for big bang revision
NASA selects SpaceX to build deorbit vehicle for International Space Station (www.space.com)
NASA has selected SpaceX to develop a vehicle that will bring the International Space Station to a fiery end when the time comes....
Euclid space telescope finds 1.5 trillion orphan stars wandering the Perseus cluster (images) (www.space.com)
TIL of research into genetically engineering humans for space and living on other planets. (www.space.com)
One method is epigenome engineering and would target genes advantageous for space. Another method is to combine the DNA of other species (i.e. tardigrades) with human cells to make humans better fit for space....
Are stars vanishing into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says 'yes' (www.space.com)
not long
Blue Origin launches 1st crewed spaceflight since August 2022 (video) (www.space.com)
The mission, known as NS-25, sent six people on a brief trip to suborbital space today (May 19)....
James Webb Space Telescope sees Orion Nebula in a stunning new light (images) (www.space.com)
James Webb Space Telescope chief scientist Jane Rigby receives highest US civilian award (www.space.com)
China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle (www.space.com)
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released a video of its concept for a lunar base to be developed across the next couple of decades....
Hubble telescope celebrates 34th anniversary with an iridescent Dumbbell Nebula (image) (www.space.com)
Debris from burning satellites could be affecting Earth's magnetic field | Space (www.space.com)
Cannibal stars at the heart of the Milky Way stay young in a gruesome way (www.space.com)
hate when authors assign human behaviors to natural phenomena. black holes don’t experience hunger. let alone kinship to food. they should assign natural behaviors to humans more often. downvoting
NASA is holding a total eclipse 2024 briefing today. Here's how to watch it live (www.space.com)
On April 8, a total solar eclipse will sweep across North America. The path of totality — a 115-mile (185-kilometer) wide route where https://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html will cover 100% of https://www.space.com/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html’s disk — stretches...
New NASA astronauts celebrate moon missions, private space stations as they get ready for liftoff (exclusive) (www.space.com)
pretty good story about an elite group. wish them luck
Dark energy remains a mystery. Maybe AI can help crack the code (www.space.com)
‘70% unknown’ gives me hope
Intuitive Machines lands on moon in nail-biting descent of private Odysseus lander, a 1st for US since 1972 (www.space.com)
Powerful twin solar flares erupt from sun as cell phone outages spike across US (video) (www.space.com)
How the Large Hadron Collider's successor will hunt for the dark universe (www.space.com)
moon Mimas may have an ocean scientists never believed could exist (www.space.com)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/36d3560b-2e04-4713-8742-e6f1c64a723a.png
1st look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock may even be 'a fragment of an ancient ocean world' (www.space.com)
