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Crater-diving hopper 'Gracie' will launch to the moon aboard private Athena lander this month
Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander will carry four mobile robots, including a hopper named Gracie, toward the moon when it launches late this month.
Space weather scales are outdated and confusing. Here's what NOAA scientists are doing about it
After receiving feedback from nearly 500 people about revising NOAA's Space Weather Scales, scientists continue to assess what changes need to be front and center.
Exploring Venus may require exotic tech like balloons and 'aerobots'
Scientists are proposing ways to explore Venus in the next decade and beyond by way of a host of advanced technologies, from balloons to long-lived landers.
1st supernovas may have flooded the early universe with water — making life possible just 100 million years after the Big Bang
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time
'Marsquakes' may solve 50-year-old mystery about the Red Planet
Scientists say AI has crossed a critical 'red line' after demonstrating how two popular large language models could clone themselves.
Supernova 'rains' could give rise to mysteriously magnetic dead stars
New research indicates that matter ejected during the supernova death of a star can fall back to neutrons stars, giving rise to mysterious "low-field magnetars."
Black holes could 'bend it like Beckham' to reveal hidden asymmetries of the universe
Black holes and soccer balls don't have much in common, but if black holes are curved when kicked, it might say something deep about the cosmos.
Scientists say 2 asteroids may actually be fragments of destroyed planets from our early solar system
They're calling them "planetary embryos".
