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A new analysis of 'time capsule' moon samples brought back to Earth by Apollo 16 shows how the surface of the moon has changed over billions of years. The post 'Time capsule' moon samples reveal moon's history first appeared on EarthSky.

Soil-like pebbles in moon samples brought home by Apollo 16 astronauts have revealed new details about lunar history.

Minuscule meteoroids slamming into the lunar surface could be kicking up most of the atoms that make up the lunar exosphere.

The space startup's booster landing helped pave the way for Starship coming to market.

A powerful burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to stop Armageddon just in the nick of time, a new experiment suggests.

Scientists have demonstrated the simulation of asteroid deflection with an X-ray pulse from dense argon plasma generated at the Z machine, a pulsed power device at Sandia National Laboratories.

The study, published in Nature Physics by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, simulates the forces of a nuclear blast on asteroid materials using something they call the...

Researchers blast silica with an intense X-ray burst, watch it evaporate.

Summary The NASA Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Project has been providing state-of-the art satellite data on Earth's reflected solar and emitted thermal radiation along with …

I've worn the Ray-Ban Meta and Solos AirGo 3 smart glasses, and have learned enough to know which one is worth buying.

The sunspot patch responsible for early May auroras is active again, producing five X-class flares, per reports.

A thick atmosphere has been detected around a planet that's twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar system, researchers reported Wednesday. The so-called...

The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sending scientists on a mission for advanced probing on infrared astronomy.

Scientists are slowly getting to the bottom of how some of the universe's most mind-bending worlds came to be.

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Sunspot AR3590, which recently spit out three X-class solar flares in under 24 hours, has grown even larger and is now pointed almost directly at Earth, putting us in the crosshairs of more potential eruptions.

The supernova has astonished experts since its discovery almost four decades ago

Scientists have confirmed what became of a star that exploded in a stunning supernova visible to Earth more than three decades ago: It morphed into a neutron...

Plasma is an ionized gas—that is, a gas containing electrons, ions, atoms, molecules, radicals, and photons. It is often called the fourth state of matter, and surprisingly, it permeates everything. Plasmas, which are artificially generated by transmitting energy to a gas, are found in the fluorescent tubes that light kitchens, but they have also allowed mobile phones to become smaller and smaller.