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NASA's Perseverance mission is taking the first-ever recordings of the soundscape on Mars. Perseverance recorded the first sounds from Mars on February 19, 2021, the day after its arrival. The result? Mars is quiet, and natural sound…

Odd radio circles or ORCs, first revealed in 2020 by the ASKAP radio telescope, have now been brought into focus. Theories as to their cause range from galactic shockwaves to their being the throats of wormholes. The new detailed image,…

Reminiscent of fireflies flickering in the dark, lighting up the screen in chunks and clusters. A simulation of the early universe when the cosmos moved from darkness to a radiant, light-filled environment. The amazing video is part of the…

An article in Nature Communications, Emergent Sasaki-Einstein geometry, and AdS/CFT,  by researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and MIT, USA, looks at quantum gravity to include a macroscopic and microscopic description…

In a research paper recently published in Space: Science & Technology, Qi Li from Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering studied aerodynamic characteristics of two types of Mars Ascent Vehicles (MAV). Those with slender…

After long-duration spaceflight, structural connectivity changes happen in the brain. While reported by astronauts that spent long stints on the International Space Station (ISS), a study published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits analyzes…

On March 1, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will launch GOES-T, the third satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites R series, and you can watch it on NASA TV. Part of a series of…

Scientists from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe and the University of Minnesota created a new type of optical element to improve the performance of telescopes studying radiation from the Big Bang.…

While mapping radio waves in the Universe, a team discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy 3x an hour—and it's unlike anything astronomers have seen before. They think it might be a neutron star or a white…

Just over 2,537 light-years away shines the Andromeda Galaxy. It is the closest large galaxy to us and has a bright bar structure at its center, making it a "barred spiral galaxy." Astronomers have found an intermediate-mass black hole…