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<!-- -->A recent research said the Sun has reached its middle age.The Sun is the source of life on Earth. It radiates light and heat, or solar energy, which makes it possible for various species to flourish on Earth. But what will happen when the giant star expends all its fuel? This is the subject of a study undertaken by a group of…

Enlarge / A Webb composite image of Jupiter from three filters.NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt. NASA has released two more images made from data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope, and they reveal incredible detail about the…

By NASA August 21, 2022The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship carrying over 5,800 pounds of new science experiments and crew supplies, pictured from a window on the SpaceX Dragon Freedom crew ship, approaches the International Space Station above the south Atlantic Ocean. Credit: NASA<span class="glossaryLink"…

The universe's most massive known star just got its best ever close-up, and it reveals the star might be smaller than astronomers previously thought.Astronomers using the Gemini South telescope in Chile photographed the star R136a1, which is located about 160,000 light-years from Earth in the center of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large…

NASA will unveil potential future landing sites for a human return to the surface of the moon, and you can watch the briefing on Space.com today (Aug. 19), or directly on the space agency's website. NASA is serious about getting humans back to the moon this decade and has already worked out the most convenient landing sites that will be…

The sun could be sending a storm to Earth over the next few days. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, our fiery star spit out a series of bursts on Sunday that are headed in the direction of our planet and could trigger a strong geomagnetic storm. One of those bursts, called a coronal mass ejection, or CME,…

Lucy will explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids – thought to be “fossils of planet formation.” Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterEven before its launch in October 2021, <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…

The Tasmanian tiger could be reintroduced into the wild within a decade after a US biotechnology company backed by the Winklevoss twins pledged to recreate the animal almost 90 years after it was declared extinct.The last thylacine, the official name of the Tasmanian tiger that was the Australian island’s apex predator, died in a zoo in…

The main conversation around climate change primarily focuses on one thing: how much carbon is in the air—and by extension, how to reduce it. However, what is less talked about but may become incredibly important is how much carbon is in our oceans. There is 50 times more carbon in the ocean than the atmosphere. Some climate researchers believe…

On the one-year anniversary of achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules at LLNL’s National Ignition Facility, the scientific results of this record experiment have been published in three peer-reviewed papers: one in Physical Review Letters and two in Physical Review E. This stylized image shows a cryogenic target used for these…