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The visible surface of the sun, taken by Solar Orbiter on March 22, 2023. Sunspots are seen as holes in the otherwise smooth surface. (Image credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team) The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution images of the sun’s surface to date, providing fresh views of our well-studied star.

An artist’s depiction of the system showing the host star, transiting planet, misaligned transition disk, and wide binary companion (in the background). (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC)) To date, over 5,500 exoplanets — planets that orbit stars other than the sun — have been discovered, and a large portion of those alien worlds

Do other universes in the multiverse have values of dark energy more optimized for forming stars and life? (Image credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Somewhere in the multiverse, there could be universes more predisposed to forming stars, and possibly life, than our own universe —- and a new study has shown that it’s all

The International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS-133 crew member on space shuttle Discovery on March 7, 2011. (Image credit: NASA) The International Space Station took some evasive action on Tuesday (Nov. 19). A Russian Progress cargo ship that’s docked to the ISS fired its thrusters for 5.5 minutes on

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XRISM’s X-ray mirrors and star trackers are mounted on the front of the craft (left), as shown in this rendering. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Imaging Laboratory The XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) mission is not the first of its kind, but the cutting-edge spectroscopic instruments on board have opened new doors

The University of Southern California’s student rocketeers have done it again. The USC Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) — which in 2019 became the first student organization ever to launch a rocket to space — sent its Aftershock II vehicle 470,400 feet (89.09 miles, or 143.38 kilometers) above Earth last month. That smashed the amateur altitude

NASA Crew-8 astronauts (from left) Alexander Grebenkin, Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Epps will land off the coast of Florida Friday morning after nearly eight months aboard the International Space Station. Credit: SpaceX Four NASA astronauts will land Friday morning after spending more than 200 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The four-person

The red supergiant star Betelgeuse (center) may have a companion star orbiting it, as shown in this illustration. Credit: Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation The bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse has long been a familiar sight to stargazers, winking with a reddish glow from the shoulder of Orion the Hunter. But it is also an increasingly popular