Nebraska’s Wide, Rolling Domain
Reported by NASA
The Nebraska Sandhills—the largest system of sand dunes in the Western Hemisphere—stretch across about one-quarter of the state....
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:01 +0000
Explore JPL to Take Place Oct. 10, 11
Reported by NASA
Celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory invites the public to its campus at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California for an open-house event,&...
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:34 +0000
The Best Place to Look for Alien Megastructures Might Be Moon Dust
Reported by Universe Today
Our search for technosignatures - clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth - takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological civilizations there are in the Milky Way. However, ther...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:14 +0000
What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 1: The Infernal Reservoir
Reported by Universe Today
If the Sun's fusion shut off right now, you would not notice for a very long time. The first stop is understanding the Sun itself: a vast pile of gravitating matter where fusion is so absurdly inefficient that, pound for pound, a compost heap beats it....
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:25 +0000
LISA Could Double as an Asteroid Scale
Reported by Universe Today
One of the hardest things to calculate for an asteroid is its mass - but it is such a critical feature. It determines how much of an impact it would have if it hits something, or how many resources are potentially available on it. But to accurately measure...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:07 +0000
NASA’s Chandra Finds Unexpected Fireworks in Aftermath of Stellar Explosions
Reported by NASA
The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory at the nearby galaxy Messier 83 (M83), they did not expect to find a population of supernova remn...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:45 +0000