[ad_1] An upcoming NASA mission will provide an unprecedented look at ice clouds at high altitudes in Earth's atmosphere.NASA's Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer (PolSIR) is an instrument designed to study ice clouds that form high above tropical and...

[ad_1] The red dwarf Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun. It appears in the upper left of this artist’s concept, with its planet Proxima b in the foreground. The double star that appears between them in the background is Alpha Centauri A and B (also known...

[ad_1] Whenever something happens with Betelgeuse, speculations about it exploding as a supernova proliferate. It would be cool if it did. We’re far enough away to suffer no consequences, so it’s fun to imagine the sky lighting up like that for months. Now the red...

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[ad_1] "It is not darkness that unites us, not the cold distance of space, but the offering of water..."Those words, written by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, are part of an ode that will fly on a robotic probe to a distant icy moon. Now, with the poem's reveal, the...

[ad_1] The Beehive Cluster (right) in Cancer receives two visitors this month: First Mars (shown here at left) as the month opens, then Venus less than two weeks later. Credit: Alan Dyer Venus reaches its best for the year as an evening object this month. Its...

[ad_1] When astronomers discovered WASP-18b in 2009, they uncovered one of the most unusual planets ever found. It’s ten times as massive as Jupiter is, it’s tidally locked to its Sun-like star, and it completes an orbit in less than one Earth day, about 23 hours. Now...

[ad_1] The second European Service Module for the Artemis Orion spacecraft was subjected to a barrage of sound last month to test if the structure is sound. Although there is no sound in space, before getting there the Orion has to undergo an eight-minute flight...

[ad_1] Scientists may have found a way to investigate the curious processes that accelerate solar particles to tremendous speeds.Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — huge eruptions of superheated plasma — are two of the most energetic processes seen in the...

[ad_1] The massive blue-white stars at the center of the Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070) in the Large Magellanic Cloud have carved a huge cavity into their gaseous surroundings. In this JWST view, hotter gas glows yellow-white and cooler gas appears more rust-colored....