To the moon and back: NASA’s Artemis II crew rehearses splashdown Their mission around the moon is not expected until…
To the moon and back: NASA’s Artemis II crew rehearses splashdown Their mission around the moon is not expected until…
Research on dynamics and FNTSM control of spacecraft with a film capture pocket system In recent years, with the significant…
Close Stellar Encounters and Earth’s Orbit Galaxies look fixed in astronomical photos, but of course they’re dynamic systems ever in…
FAA closes investigation into SpaceX Starship’s double-explosion 2nd flight As SpaceX continues to gear up for flight No. 3 of…
Image: ERS-2 buckles and bends during final farewell Following a hugely successful mission and almost 30 years in orbit, ESA’s…
A mass of 17 billion suns: Growing black hole is the most luminous object ever observed by astronomers A new…
JAXA’s Lunar Farming Concept Study Cutaway illustration depicting a sublunar farm covered by regolith, providing food and augmenting life support…
Russia’s space weapon: Anti-satellite systems are indiscriminate, posing a risk to everyone’s spacecraft In a week where national security has…
Lander ‘alive and well’ after company scores first US moon landing since Apollo era The moon’s newest arrival was said…
A ridge over hidden water Ridges on Mars and Europa hint at past and present water. Distant dwarf planets are…
Kinship Science must become attuned to the subtle conversations that pervade all life, from the primordial to the present –…
Three years later, the search for life on Mars continues In the three years since NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down…
Heritage ERS-2 satellite returns to Earth Launched in 1995, ERS-2 was a pioneering Earth observation satellite that greatly influenced our…
Einstein telescope E-TEST prototype passes its first series of tests The Einstein telescope project has reached a new stage, with…
Solar Gravity Lens Mission: Refinements and Clarifications Having just discussed whether humans – as opposed to their machines – will…
Capturing a comet’s tail to keep Earth safe from the sun A comet is set to pass by Earth this…
Rocket propellant tanks for NASA’s Artemis III mission take shape As NASA works to develop all the systems needed to…
Mars samples project looms large in final spending talks A complex project aimed at retrieving rock and dirt samples from…
Image: Hubble views a massive star forming This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is teeming with color and…
NASA’s final tally shows spacecraft returned double the amount of asteroid rubble NASA finally has counted up all the asteroid…
Far from predictable Some things, like solar cycles, are hard to predict. Others, like Zoozve taking the world by storm,…
Ant geopolitics Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows…
Spot the king of planets: Observe Jupiter Jupiter is our solar system’s undisputed king of the planets. Jupiter is bright…
Flame burns out on NASA’s long-running spacecraft fire experiment NASA recently concluded the final mission of its Spacecraft Fire Safety…
Saturn’s largest moon most likely uninhabitable A study led by Western astrobiologist Catherine Neish shows the subsurface ocean of Titan—the…
Otto Struve: A Prescient Look at Exoplanet Detection Some things just run in families. If you look into the life…
Into the belly of the rover: VIPER’s final science instrument installed A team of engineers is preparing to integrate TRIDENT—short…
Scientists identify water molecules on asteroids for the first time Using data from the retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy…
Saturn’s Death Star-looking moon may have vast underground ocean Astronomers have found the best evidence yet of a vast, young…
Which came first: Black holes or galaxies? Black holes not only existed at the dawn of time, they birthed new…
Hubble spots a galaxy shrouded by stars This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a densely packed field of stars…
Cool and mysterious A cool moon, a mysterious planet, and a potentially hazardous asteroid feature in this week’s space news…
The best stories smell When scents are used to intensify a narrative, they heighten young readers’ emotions and enrich their…
Results from South Pole Telescope’s new camera emerge For more than five years, scientists at the South Pole Telescope in…
NASA’s new experimental antenna tracks deep space laser An experimental antenna has received both radio frequency and near-infrared laser signals…
NASA to demonstrate autonomous navigation system on moon When the second CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) delivery is launched to…
Newly discovered carbon monoxide-runaway gap can help identify habitable exoplanets The search for habitable exoplanets involves looking for planets with…
White Holes: Tunnels in the Sky? It’s good now and then to let the imagination soar. Don Wilkins has been…
Asteroid that impacted near Berlin identified as a rare aubrite An official classification now aligns with what many suspected from…
Asteroid making its closest approach to Earth this week On 4 February, asteroid 2011 MD will make its closest approach…
Orbital resonance: The striking gravitational dance done by planets with aligning orbits Planets orbit their parent stars while separated by…
Ice and fire: Antarctic volcano may hold clues to life on Mars On Deception Island in Antarctica, steam rises from…
Go fetch! A rover collects samples, future Mars Sample Return missions will retrieve them, and perhaps a robotic dog will…
The right to bathe Water is a great healer. Can New York’s public pools and ‘blue spaces’ be engineered for…
Shake, rattle and launch: Dream Chaser spaceplane passes vibration test Sierra Space’s shuttle-like Dream Chaser has been put through its…
Shake, rattle and launch: Dream Chaser spaceplane passes vibration test Sierra Space’s shuttle-like Dream Chaser has been put through its…
