Musk, Bezos win NASA contracts for Moon lander NASA on Thursday awarded almost $1 billion in contracts to three space…
Astronomers capture rare images of planet-forming disks around stars An international team of astronomers has captured 15 images of the…
Hubble captures breakup of comet ATLAS The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the sharpest view yet of…
Swift mission tallied water from interstellar comet Borisov For the first time, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory tracked water loss…
Hubble celebrates its 30th anniversary with a tapestry of blazing starbirth The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s iconic images and scientific…
Russian cargo ship docks with space station An unmanned Russian cargo capsule docked with the International Space Station, bringing more…
An eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar discovered by FAST Using the data obtained by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST),…
Researchers use ‘hot Jupiter’ data to mine exoplanet chemistry After spotting a curious pattern in scientific papers—they described exoplanets as…
USGS releases first-ever comprehensive geologic map of the Moon Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those…
Rotating galaxies galore: New results from ALPINE reveal what appear to be spiral galaxies in the infant universe New results…
Astronomers discover planet that never was What astronomers thought was a planet beyond our solar system has now seemingly vanished…
Impacts on asteroids produce regolith, erase small craters Impact cratering both produces new regolith and causes seismic events that can…
NASA announces first SpaceX crewed flight for May 27 A SpaceX rocket will send two American astronauts to the International…
California nebula stars in final mosaic by NASA’s Spitzer Five days before NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope ended its mission on…
Researchers discover a six-planet system with near 3:2 resonance Almost visible to the naked eye in the Draco constellation, the…
Earth-size, habitable-zone planet found hidden in early NASA Kepler data A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s…
Cosmic tempest: Astronomers detect most energetic outflow from a distant quasar Researchers using the Gemini North telescope on Hawai’i’s Maunakea…
PUNCH mission achieves milestone On April 8, 2020, the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission achieved an…
After months in space, astronauts returning to changed world Two NASA astronauts said Friday they expect it will be tough…
Russia space chief spars with Elon Musk over launch pricing The head of Russia’s space agency on Saturday accused Elon…
Mars helicopter attached to NASA’s Perseverance rover With the launch period of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover opening in 14…
No social distancing in space: New crew greeted with hugs Three astronauts flew to the International Space Station on Thursday,…
Black hole bends light back on itself You may have heard that nothing escapes the gravitational grasp of a black…
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in…
Catch this week’s supermoon, biggest and brightest of year A supermoon rises in the sky this week, looking to be…
COVID-19: How satellites can help The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has virtually paralyzed daily life as we know it. Even when…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover gets its wheels and air brakes Final assembly and testing of NASA’s Perseverance rover continues at…
Astronomers define the ‘really habitable zone’: Planets capable of producing gin and tonic A hospitable star that doesn’t kill you…
Image: Hypersonic surfing simulation Simulating the test flight of a hypersonic glider, being developed through the international HEXAFLY-INT collaboration, involving partners…
NASA call for astronauts draws 12,000 spaceflight hopefuls Who wants to be an astronaut? More than 12,000 people do, resulting…
