NASA SEES Interns Tackle Real-World Challenges in Lunar Exploration
Reported by NASA
The NASA STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) Internship Program at the University of Texas Center for Space Research places high school students on small, mission-focused research teams mentored by N...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:28 +0000
A Huge and Powerful New Simulation Helps Explain the Universe's Reionization
Reported by Universe Today
Cosmologists have another powerful simulation to work with. Lumina is the one of the largest and most detailed cosmological simulations yet and runs on the Frontier supercomputer. It's larger and more detailed than Illustris TNG....
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:39 +0000
Scientists Can Now Spot Hidden Sunspots on the Solar Far Side
Reported by Universe Today
Unlike the Moon, the Sun is constantly rotating from our perspective - but we still only see half of it at any given time. Since it takes 27 days to complete a full rotation, that leaves plenty of time for changes to happen to the side we can’t see that ...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:39 +0000
NASA Invites Media to Moon Landing Simulation Experience in California
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Members of the media are invited to tour a new lunar landing simulator at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley on Thursday, Oct. 29, and Friday, Oct. 30....
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:13 +0000
Parker Solar Probe Spots Twisted Magnetic Braids Growing in the Solar Wind
Reported by Universe Today
The magnetic environment around the Sun is a jumbled mess of chaotic fields and streams of charged particles. Recently we’ve been getting at least slightly better at mapping out its complexity, thanks in large part to data collected by missions like the ...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:26 +0000
A Merger Solves a Puzzling Paradox in Orion
Reported by Universe Today
Some of the Hubble Space Telescope's earliest observations were of the Orion Nebula. Those images showed proplyds, and subsequent observations uncovered a paradox centered on them. Given their rate of mass loss, those disks should have been destroyed long ...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:18 +0000