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NASA has switched the gamma-ray detector on its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory back on and allowed the spacecraft to start pointing itself at new cosmic explosions again. Swift team members confirmed…
A team led by Maria Schönbächler of ETH Zurich reports that iron and titanium isotopes in samples of the asteroid Bennu are indistinguishable from those in samples of the asteroid Ryugu and in a rare…
NASA published a radar time-lapse on Sept. 24 showing lava spreading from the northern crater of Krasheninnikov, a pair of volcanoes on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. The 17 frames came from the…
Researchers at ETH Zurich report that a dense, strongly magnetized rock body lies buried beneath the Dewar region on the Moon's far side, and that magnetizing it would have taken a field of at least…
A NASA-funded team has found an amoeba in a hot spring in California's Lassen Volcanic National Park that reproduces at 63 °C (145 °F), hotter than any organism with a cell nucleus had been recorded…
A team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports that Earth's center of mass swings back and forth by about half as much each year as the same group estimated eight years ago. The laboratory…
NASA says its Perseverance rover found rock formed from cooled magma, not the lakebed sediment mission scientists expected, in a band of ground called the Margin Unit, at the inner rim of Mars'…
On Oct. 24, 2025, Robert Wagner was doing something routine: checking the quality of a map of the whole Moon, stitched together from hundreds of frames taken years apart. The software he uses turns…
The Roscosmos Progress 96 cargo spacecraft docked to the space-facing port of the International Space Station's Poisk module at 9:44 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Sept. 19, NASA's space station blog…
Astronomers using the NASA and JAXA observatory XRISM have measured gas pouring off a giant star and falling onto the small, collapsed star that orbits it, at about 335,000 miles per hour. The team,…
NASA says a crater 728 feet across (222 meters) formed on the Moon's eastern edge sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024. It was found only in October 2025, when an image analyst spotted it…
NASA has switched on the main camera of its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and says it is working in space. The agency's team activated the Wide Field Instrument on the morning of Sept. 11. The…