Human Behaviour
Astronauts call it the “overview effect” — but you do not need to leave Earth to feel it
Picture this. You're above Earth, strapped into the International Space Station.
Space Industry
The Moon’s Interior Isn’t What We Thought: Blue Ghost Data Upends Fifty Years of Thermal Models
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander spent time on the lunar surface in early 2025, and the data it sent back may force scientists to redraw one of the oldest maps of the moon’s internal structure.
Moon Daily
Apollo Cosplay on a 21st-Century Clock – Why Artemis Keeps Slipping Toward 2029 – Part 3
- Artemis II in 2026: the "Apollo 8" moment, a roughly 10-day crewed lunar flyby that tests Orion's life support, navigation and comms in deep space
Moon Daily
NASA Langley begins plume surface interaction tests to support future lunar landings
When spacecraft descend toward the lunar surface, high velocity exhaust plumes from descent engines can erode soil, loft dust and debris, and alter surface properties.
Moon Daily
Trump shifts priority to Moon mission, not Mars
In an executive order on his space policy, Trump said he wanted to get Americans to the Moon by 2028, under NASA's Artemis program launched during his first White House term.
Moon Daily
Origami style lunar rover wheel expands to climb steep caves
The study introduces an origami inspired deployable wheel that can change its diameter to overcome obstacles that would halt conventional fixed geometry rover wheels, and the research appears in the December issue of Science Robotics.
Exo Worlds
Hidden magma oceans could shield rocky exoplanets from harmful radiation
Earth's magnetic field is generated by movement in its liquid iron outer core - a process known as a dynamo - but larger rocky worlds like super-earths might have solid or fully liquid cores that cannot produce magnetic fields in the same way.
Exo Worlds
Icy cycles may have driven early protocell evolution
Researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science Tokyo and collaborators investigated how mixed lipid membranes respond to repeated freeze thaw cycles that mimic temperature fluctuations on the early Earth.
Exo Worlds
Icy cycles may have driven early protocell evolution
Researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science Tokyo and collaborators investigated how mixed lipid membranes respond to repeated freeze thaw cycles that mimic temperature fluctuations on the early Earth.
Exo Worlds
Pressure driven leakage from marine snow feeds deep ocean microbes
The study, led by biologists at the Department of Biology and research centers Nordcee and the Danish Center for Hadal Research, focuses on so called marine snow.
Exo Worlds
Hydrogen sulfide detected in distant gas giant exoplanets for the first time
Gas giants, such as Jupiter and Saturn in our own solar system, are large planets made mostly of helium and/or hydrogen around a dense core, but they have a bit of an identity crisis.
Time And Space
Primordial magnetism offers fresh angle on the Hubble constant puzzle
The Hubble tension arises because two precise approaches to determining the Hubble constant give significantly different results, despite drawing on high quality data.
Time And Space
What is the universe made of? SLAC experts weigh in on the mysterious force that shapes our cosmic history
As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who have been involved in the project from its early days.
Time And Space
Dark star theory links JWST early universe anomalies
In the standard picture, the first stars formed in regions dominated by dark matter, at the centers of dark matter microhalos, a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
Exo Worlds
Survey of 80 near Earth asteroids sharpens view of their origins and risks
An international team led by researchers at the Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has completed a one year observing campaign to better classify these objects.
Time And Space
Record LOFAR Radio Sky Map Charts Millions Of Growing Black Holes
By tuning in to low frequency radio waves, the survey provides a strikingly different view of the cosmos than optical telescopes, tracing relativistic particles spiralling through magnetic fields.