First eROSITA sky-survey data release makes public the largest ever catalog of high-energy cosmic sources The German eROSITA consortium has…
Earth’s atmospheric glow can be seen from the International Space Station This high exposure photograph revealed Earth’s atmospheric glow against…
Open Cluster SETI Globular clusters, those vast ‘cities of stars’ that orbit our galaxy, get a certain amount of traction…
The Jovian vortex hunt is over for now The Jovian Vortex Hunter project, launched on Zooniverse in June 2022, is…
Economic benefits from space mining A fictional depiction of an ore ship servicing mining operations on an asteroid. Credits: DALL∙E…
‘Old smokers’: Strange new type of star discovered in Milky Way Nearing the end of their life, they sit quietly…
NASA collaborating on European-led gravitational wave observatory in space The first space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves has passed…
Astronomers analyze masses, orbital properties and atmospheric features of six exoplanets A recently discovered solar system with six confirmed exoplanets…
Colorful faults and false colors We might not know what color the planets really are, but we know a whole…
On knowing who he was Alan Watts, for all his faults, was a wildly imaginative and provocative thinker who reimagined…
‘Old smokers’ and ‘squalling newborns’ among hidden stars spotted for first time ‘Hidden’ stars including a new type of elderly…
After three years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission ends NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at…
Microwave detectors and multiplexing: Researchers help astronomers examine the early universe Perched atop a high plateau in Chile’s Atacama Desert,…
Alien Life or Chemistry? A New Approach Working in the field has its limitations, as Alex Tolley reminds us in…
Now we know why Starship’s second flight test failed SpaceX is often in the headlines; unfortunately, it is not always…
New US Postal Service stamps feature iconic NASA Webb images The U.S. Postal Service has issued two new Priority Mail…
James Webb Space Telescope: Finally, the edge of the universe and beyond Launched in 2021 on Christmas Day, the James…
US space company upbeat on next Moon mission despite lander’s demise The head of the American space company whose lunar…
Image: Hubble views a galactic supernova site This image features a relatively small galaxy known as UGC 5189A, which is…
Twice as nice Sometimes the Solar System offers up a planetary pair for our viewing enjoyment. Japan has a pair…
Artists of our own lives The genome is the starting point for a performance we enact over a lifetime, not…
Image: An aurora in another light The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite sensor on the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured…
To the Moon and back: modern lunar exploration Japan, whose unmanned “sniper” probe will attempt a lunar landing on Saturday,…
Webb data suggest many early galaxies were long and thin, not disk-like or spherical Columbia researchers analyzing images from NASA’s…
Samples from Wild 2 comet reveal a surprising past Eighteen years after NASA’s Stardust mission returned to Earth with the…
Reaching Proxima b: The Beauty of the Swarm NIAC’s award of a Phase I grant to study a ‘swarm’ mission…
Big planets don’t necessarily mean big moons Does the size of an exomoon help determine if life could form on…
Doomed US lunar lander now headed for Earth: company A private US lunar lander that has been leaking fuel throughout…
Neumann Drive successfully tested in space Company images of a Neumann Drive at upper left with it’s plasma discharge produced…
Doomed US lunar lander’s space odyssey continues… for now Is it the little spaceship that could? Go to Source Author:…
Planetesimals are buffeted by wind in their nebula, throwing debris into space: Study Before planets form around a young star,…
Destination: Moon Getting to the Moon — or any moon — isn’t easy, but it’s worth it. That’s why we…
How to hate The manifesto was always a hotheaded call to arms. Then it got a slick, digital makeover in…
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detects surprise gamma-ray feature beyond our galaxy Astronomers analyzing 13 years of data from NASA’s Fermi…
Researchers release open-source space debris model MIT’s Astrodynamics, Space Robotics, and Controls Laboratory (ARCLab) announced the public beta release of…
Old stars may be the best places to search for life Once upon a cosmic time, scientists assumed that stars…
Galactic ‘Nature Preserves’ over Deep Time Speculating about the diffusion of intelligent species through the galaxy, as we’ve been doing…
Centaurs gain comet-like characteristics through close encounters with Jupiter, Saturn A rapid reshaping of orbits resulting from a close encounter…
A colossal star erupts: Examining one of the largest stars in the Milky Way as it fades from view Astronomers…
India’s Sun probe reaches solar orbit India’s solar observation mission on Saturday entered the Sun’s orbit after a four-month journey,…
The most massive neutron stars probably have cores of quark matter Atoms are made of three things: protons, neutrons, and…
Rocket carrying American lunar lander rolls to launchpad Final preparations were underway Friday for the launch of the first American…
Visions of Venus See our neighboring planet in radar and in artwork, and catch up on the week’s space news….
The missing conversation To the detriment of the public, scientists and historians don’t engage with one another. They must begin…
New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like Neptune is fondly known for being a rich blue, and…
Two companies will attempt the first US moon landings since the Apollo missions a half-century ago China and India scored…
SpaceX back with 1st Space Coast launch of the year After a record 2023, SpaceX is not slowing down its…
Life Elsewhere? Relaxing the Copernican Principle Most people I know are enthusiastic about the idea that other intelligent races exist…
Astrophysicists explore links between atmospheric oxygen and detecting extraterrestrial technology on distant planets In the quest to understand the potential…
JWST sets a new record, sees newly forming stars in the Triangulum galaxy Our Milky Way bristles with giant molecular…
Motion extraction See the hidden movement in the natural world, thanks to ‘motion extraction’, a filmmaker’s innovative digital effect –…
First pulsar detected in globular cluster GLIMPSE-C01 Using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have discovered a…
