A supermassive black hole and its jet, all in a single picture In May 2022, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)…
Space development on the Moon, Mars and beyond featured in 2023 NIAC Phase I Grants Conceptual illustration of an oxygen…
Why Probe the Sun? For One Reason, to Help Predict a Disaster Artist’s concept, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Next…
Tianwen-1: Zhurong rover finds evidence of water at low latitudes on modern Mars The Zhurong rover has found evidence of…
Key radar antenna stuck on Europe’s Jupiter-bound spacecraft A critical antenna is jammed on a Jupiter-bound spacecraft launched two weeks…
Have a nice flight! Flying on Titan is easy, but not as easy as flying on Deimos. Plus, Juice takes…
All is One The ancient philosophy of monism and the physics of quantum entanglement agree: all that exists is one…
CryoSat reveals ice loss from glaciers When one thinks of the damage that climate change is doing, it’s probable that…
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer’s first taste of science from space ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, has recorded magnetic field…
Autonomous swarms highlight the strategic value of manned-unmanned teaming Whilst conducting a technical demonstration for the Royal Netherlands Army, Israeli…
Framework for NASA’s Roman spacecraft moves to Goddard clean room The primary structure that will serve as the “bones” of…
Astronomers solve the 60-year mystery of quasars, the most powerful objects in the universe Scientists have unlocked one of the…
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Spherical Lens: Reflections on a Gravity Lens Telescope (Part I) A growing interest…
A more precise model of the Earth’s ionosphere The ionosphere—the region of geospace spanning from 60 to 1000 kilometers above…
NASA scientific balloon prepares to cross South America A NASA super pressure balloon carrying the SuperBIT scientific payload has crossed…
Ohio Global Aerospace & Supplier Summit Cleveland, Ohio, May 16-17, 2023; Register now! Go to Source Author: Aerospace Manufacturing and…
Spin gravity cities fabricated from Near Earth Asteroid rubble piles A cylindrical, spin gravity space settlement constructed from asteroid rubble…
The Best Books on Space Here are the ones I recommend (besides The Gravity Well, of course!). Leave your own…
Researchers reveal early results in sky-brightness measurements in Antarctica A research team led by the researcher Wang Jian from the…
Fighting light pollution: The West Texas effort preserves one of the largest dark sky reserves To sit under the vast…
Rocket flight and the five dwarfs Meet the Solar System’s five official dwarf planets, celebrate two major launches, and find…
The virtue of discretion When the rules break down, you must judge what to do on your own. Discretion is…
Team successfully observes Australian eclipse in preparation for 2024 US eclipse Scientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) led a team…
Old NASA satellite plunges to Earth over Sahara Desert An old NASA satellite that studied the sun for more than…
Successes in conflict and new anti-radar features signal the future of drone warfare At the 2022 Singapore Airshow, on February…
European Space Agency chief eyes tapping private industry partners European Space Agency director Josef Aschbacher promised a “transformation” of the…
NASA’s TESS celebrates fifth year scanning the sky for new worlds Now in its fifth year in space, NASA’s TESS…
Probing the Shifting Surface of Icy Moons In celebration of the recent JUICE launch, a few thoughts on what we’re…
Astronomers create AI to better communicate their stellar research An international team of scientists, led by a researcher at The…
Volocopter completes electric air taxi production setup New hangar will host the company’s final assembly line with an airfield to…
What to know about 1st test flight of SpaceX’s big Starship Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to take its most…
An Asteroid Made of Platinum Someday, perhaps 30 years from now, companies will be grabbing asteroids and exploiting them for…
SpaceX will try to launch most powerful rocket ever Monday SpaceX plans to carry out its first test flight on…
Icy moonquakes: Surface shaking could trigger landslides A new NASA study offers an explanation of how quakes could be the…
Want more space? Speak up! Detailed Mars maps, insights into the Venusian surface, and views of Uranian rings all have…
Animal, vegetable, mineral Cruel and unscientific, the ‘vegetative state’ diagnosis stems from a hierarchical and bigoted view of all living…
Making Martian regolith safe for agriculture AI generated image of crops growing in sealed enclosure within a radiation protected lava…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover gets a major software upgrade The update brings loads of improvements, the most significant being new…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover gets a major software upgrade The update brings loads of improvements, the most significant being new…
The impact of the war in Ukraine on the space industry The war in Ukraine has strained cooperation in space,…
Students set to launch self-built rocket into space The Hybrid Engine Development (HyEnD) student team at the University of Stuttgart…
Go JUICE Take a look at our missions to Jupiter in context. The image below shows the history back to…
Ariane 5 flight VA260, carrying the Juice mission, is fully integrated and ready for rollout Ariane 5 for flight VA260…
Astronomers find out what happens to rocky planets that wander too close to their stars The massive Kepler survey found…
Hubble views multi-generational cluster NGC 2419 This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the globular star cluster NGC…
NIMS develops Interactive Standards Viewer for training programs Invites subject matter experts to take survey to define industry recognized job…
Missing: Audacity NASA has been suffering for two decades from the effects of American indecision about its space program. Declining…
New Webb telescope image reveals secrets of star structure and building blocks of life To gaze at the stars is…
Save the date: One year until total solar eclipse sweeps US Dust off your eclipse glasses: It’s only a year…
A mission to pull back the shroud VERITAS would peer through Venus’ clouds to study its surface like never before,…
Solar cell manufacturing using lunar resources Conceptual rendering of a Blue Alchemist solar cell fabrication facility on the Moon. Credits:…
Laboratory solar flares reveal clues to mechanism behind bursts of high-energy particles Simulating solar flares on a scale the size…
China tests a Stirling engine in orbit The China National Space Agency (CNSA) has made considerable progress in recent years…
The art of two-way art ‘It’s like being in love with someone’: Barry Duncan, MIT’s master palindromist, spells out his…
ASAT-related space debris; a major issue on the horizon In early August, it was reported that SpaceX’s Starlink satellites had…
New interactive mosaic uses NASA imagery to show Mars in vivid detail Both scientists and the public can navigate a…
Countdown begins for the great North American solar eclipse One year from now, on Monday, 8 April 2024, the moon…
First woman, Black astronaut, Canadian to make 2024 flight around Moon NASA unveiled the crew on Monday for its first…
Building Smallsat Capabilities for Deep Space ‘LightCraft’ is the term used by Slava Turyshev’s team at JPL and elsewhere to…
BAE Systems, Heart Aerospace collaborate on electric airplane battery Lightweight battery for commercial electric airplane will enable efficient regional air…
Webb measures temperature of rocky exoplanet for first time The James Webb Space Telescope has measured the temperature of a…
Lunar landing pad trade study Artist’s impression of a lunar landing pad. Credits: SEArch+ When humanity returns to the Moon…
Orbital Rush Hour It really wasn’t that long ago when the two greatest superpowers were vying to put satellites into…
Perseverance rover collects first Mars sample of new science campaign NASA’s Perseverance rover cored and stored the first sample of…
