Want to get into stargazing? A professional astronomer explains where to start There are few things more peaceful and relaxing…
A new way to characterize habitable planets For decades, science fiction authors have imagined scenarios in which life thrives on…
Happy Perihelion! There’s lots to celebrate this week, from the New Year to perihelion and everything we’ve accomplished together during…
Greater Earth (GE⊕) Lunar Power Station Conceptual illustration showing the first iteration of the proposed design of a GE⊕ Lunar…
Indian astronomers explore open cluster NGC 6940 with AstroSat Using the AstroSat spacecraft, astronomers from the Birla Institute of Technology…
Studying combustion and fire safety Research on the International Space Station is helping scientists to understand how fire spreads and…
Using smart materials to deploy a Dark Age explorer One of the most significant constraints on the size of objects…
Lost in space? Just use relativity One of the hardest things for many people to conceptualize when talking about how…
Japan moon lander enters lunar orbit Japan’s SLIM space probe entered the moon’s orbit on Monday in a major step…
Why the universe might be a hologram A quarter century ago, physicist Juan Maldacena proposed the AdS/CFT correspondence, an intriguing…
Ancient stars could make elements with more than 260 protons The first stars of the universe were monstrous beasts. Comprised…
Hubble sights a galaxy with ‘forbidden’ light This whirling image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is…
A Novel Strategy for Catching Up to an Interstellar Object Reaching ‘Oumuamua through some kind of statite technology, an idea…
Laser pointer + cat = science Learn why NASA got a cat to chase a laser pointer, see the Uranus…
Dancing and time For Rachel Bespaloff, philosophy was a sensual activity shaped by the rhythm of history, embodied in an…
NASA astronauts test SpaceX elevator concept for Artemis lunar lander NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Doug “Wheels” Wheelock participated in…
NASA astronauts test SpaceX elevator concept for Artemis lunar lander NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Doug “Wheels” Wheelock participated in…
International astronaut will be invited on future NASA moon landing An international astronaut will join U.S. astronauts on the moon…
New nuclear deflection simulations advance planetary defense against asteroid threats Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have developed a…
Forbidden Worlds? Theory Clashes with Observation Back before we knew for sure there were planets around other stars, the universe…
Photonic crystals could be exactly what Breakthrough Starshot is looking for Light sail technology is a fascinating concept and a…
Biggest solar flare in years temporarily disrupts radio signals on Earth A NASA telescope has captured the biggest solar flare…
Breakthrough Listen scans entire galaxies for signals from extremely advanced civilizations In 1960, Dr. Frank Drake led the first Search…
Trying to communicate with whales is like talking to extraterrestrials Communicating between species isn’t something that only has to take…
Alien clouds and those that peer through them From mythology to technology, clouds can’t keep us from seeing what lies…
When does after begin? Three earthquakes hit Mexico City on the same date in 1985, 2017 and 2022. The coincidence…
Entropy could be key to a planet’s habitability We all know that to have life on a world, you need…
NASA’s space station laser comm terminal achieves first link A NASA technology experiment on the International Space Station completed its…
Possible first ever synchrotron-based analysis of asteroid Bennu to be performed After an amazing journey, a grain from the asteroid…
NASA’s Perseverance rover deciphers ancient history of Martian lake Marking its 1,000th Martian day on the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance…
SETI: Musings on the Barrow Scale John Barrow has been on my mind these past few days, for reasons that…
A 14-inch spacecraft delivers new details about ‘hot Jupiters’ A spacecraft the size of a cereal box has collected precise…
Asteroid will pass in front of bright star Betelgeuse to produce a rare eclipse visible to millions One of the…
The longstanding mystery of Mars’ moons—and the mission that could solve it The two small moons of Mars, Phobos (about…
Image: Hubble captures a cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud This striking Hubble Space Telescope image shows the densely packed…
Getting around in space Planets move around a star, spacecraft make their way across planets and through space, and Planetary…
The two Chomskys The US military’s greatest enemy worked in an institution saturated with military funding. How did it shape…
China scores a big win in race with US for influence on the moon China notched a diplomatic victory in…
China scores a big win in race with US for influence on the moon China notched a diplomatic victory in…
Physics behind unusual behavior of stars’ super flares discovered Our sun actively produces solar flares that can impact Earth, with…
Talking to Starglider When we’ve discussed interstellar ‘interlopers’ like ‘Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, the science fiction-minded among us have now and…
Exploring the limitations of asteroid crater lakes as climate archives In southern Germany just north of the Danube, there lies…
Interpreting the afterglow of a black hole’s breakfast An entirely new way to probe how active black holes behave when…
A six-planet solar system in perfect synchrony has been found in the Milky Way Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync…
Curriculum for Astrochemical Engineering An engineer pondering chemical processes for use in space learned in an advanced postgraduate course in…
A new possible explanation for the Hubble tension The universe is expanding. How fast it does so is described by…
Ghostlike dusty galaxy reappears in James Webb Space Telescope image It first appeared as a glowing blob from ground-based telescopes…
Picks, pics, and peaks Your picks for the Best of 2023, our favorite space pics, a mind-boggling peak speed, and…
A glimpse of the world’s heart I wanted to visit Colombia’s sacred mountains. But there are some places we cannot…
One of the largest magnetic storms in history quantified: Aurorae from the tropics to the polar regions In early November…
