Latvia is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords as part of a new push to use the Accords to foster cooperation on NASA’s lunar exploration ambitions.

There’s a phenomenon astronauts often describe called the Overview Effect. It’s that radical shift in perspective you get when you see Earth from space. Borders disappear. The squabbles that consumed your attention down on the surface suddenly look ridiculous. You realize, in your bones rather than just your head, that we’re all on the same […]

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Officials say civil-military overlap with NASA grows as lunar activity accelerates

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope looked at a scene it first captured in 1997 in honour of 36th anniversary: a small portion of a star-forming region about 5000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, known as the Trifid Nebula. The image shows changes over incredibly short timescales and instills a sense of awe and wonder about our ever-changing Universe.

Myanmar’s military-installed government reportedly released ousted President Win Myint on Friday and reduced Aung San Suu Kyi’s prison sentence, part of a reported mass amnesty of over 4,000 prisoners timed to the Thingyan New Year holiday. The move was one of the first major acts of newly inaugurated President Min Aung Hlaing, the coup leader […]

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Parker Solar Probe has become the first human-made object to fly through the Sun's corona and survive. Its data is rewriting half a century of stellar physics, from the origin of the solar wind to the coronal heating problem.

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Research suggests these rare, intensely bright explosions known as luminous fast blue optical transients may originate when a neutron star or black hole collides with a massive Wolf-Rayet star after being flung out of its birthplace by a supernova kick. Recent analysis examined multiple LFBOT events and found they consistently occur in star-forming galaxies, but […]

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Palestinian schoolchildren in the occupied West Bank village of Umm al-Khair held lessons on rocks beside a barbed wire fence this week, turning a settler-built barrier into the backdrop of what organizers called the ‘Umm al-Khair Freedom School.’ The protest followed reports that students were cut off from their classrooms by a fence Israeli authorities […]

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Mercury’s magmas may not play by Earth’s rules. Laboratory work suggests that the innermost planet’s sulfur-rich, iron-poor chemistry could fundamentally alter how molten rock crystallizes, meaning planetary scientists cannot safely borrow terrestrial assumptions when reconstructing how Mercury’s mantle solidified. Research using the Indarch meteorite, an enstatite chondrite, as a stand-in for Mercury’s building blocks has […]

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