NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model(newsroom.usra.edu)

47 points by noobplus 1 month ago | 5 comments

First space images captured by balloon-borne telescope(utoronto.ca)

154 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 43 comments

All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)(esa.int)

429 points by cybermango 6 months ago | 243 comments

ESA article on the toxicity of lunar dust, which caused Apollo moonwalkers 'lunar hay fever' symptoms and smelled like spent gunpowder.

JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission(science.org)

97 points by Muhammad523 8 days ago | 19 comments

Science news feature on Japan's MMX mission, which aims to return samples from Mars's moon Phobos to learn how it formed and possibly retrieve pieces of Mars.

Euclid finds complete Einstein Ring in NGC galaxy(euclid-ec.org)

156 points by raattgift 1 year ago | 40 comments

NASA Artemis Posters(nasa.gov)

81 points by bookofjoe 6 months ago | 9 comments

NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's salty ocean(science.org)

345 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 325 comments

Science magazine news article about a NASA spacecraft mission to investigate whether Europa's salty subsurface ocean could support life; page blocked by Cloudflare check.

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year(space.com)

327 points by wglb 2 months ago | 72 comments

Space.com news article on how NASA made power changes so Voyager 2 can keep one of its last instruments running for another year.

ESA's Hera Will View Asteroid Scars from DART's Strike(spectrum.ieee.org)

62 points by rbanffy 7 days ago | 7 comments

IEEE Spectrum news article on ESA's Hera spacecraft preparing to image asteroid Dimorphos after NASA's DART planetary defense impact.

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 1 comments

A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.

Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery(arstechnica.com)

116 points by gumby 28 days ago | 48 comments

Ars Technica article on scientists finding that a 19th-century Nature account of a geomagnetic storm delaying a train got the year wrong due to a typo.

Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable(404media.co)

6 points by saikatsg 22 days ago | 1 comments

A 404 Media article on a study finding the solar system is dynamically unstable over long timescales and will eventually be destroyed.