Look for NASA+ Now Streaming on Amazon Fire TV
Reported by NASA
Continuing agency efforts to bring space closer to home, NASA+ is heading to more streaming platforms. On Thursday, NASA announced its programming is on Fire TV Channels. Fire TV customers can easily access this content by asking Alexa+ on compatible devic...
- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:11 +0000
The First Confirmed Exo-satellite Challenges Our Definitions of Planets and Moons
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What do you call a Jupiter-like object that orbits the brown dwarf companion of a star? Is it a planet, a moon, or something new?...
- By: Brian Koberlein (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/brian)
- On: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:20 +0000
Chandrasekhar and the Limits of Physics, Part 4: Vindication
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The collapsing stars Eddington swore couldn't exist turned out to be everywhere, and half a century later the world handed Chandrasekhar his Nobel. How the 1.4 solar mass limit became one of the most important numbers in modern astronomy....
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:41 +0000
Crews Move Artemis IV Liquid Hydrogen Tank
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Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall Artemis IV liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building into a detached test building on a separate portion of the 829-acre site on M...
- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:20 +0000
NASA’s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars
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NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, finding that they form in a similar way to Earth-based auroras. Results published Thursday in Natur...
- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:19 +0000
The Red Potato Galaxy and its Stifling Neighbour
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Galaxies attract cold gas from the intergalactic medium and turn it into stars. But the JWST has found galaxies that aren't forming stars in the early Universe, long before they should've become quiescent. In at least one instance involving the Red Potato ...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:14 +0000