Hubble captures stellar nurseries in majestic spiral galaxy IC 1954 This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the…
Earth will have a temporary ‘mini moon’ for two months Earth’s moon will soon have some company—a “mini moon.” Go…
SpaceX launches rescue mission to return stranded astronauts A SpaceX rocket soared into the sky Saturday with two passengers on…
Ryugu samples call into question previous ideas about the formation of carbon-rich asteroids Asteroid Ryugu possibly did not travel as…
Cloudy skies, smooth sailing A Martian cloud atlas, LightSail wins big, and multiple missions coast toward launch. Go to Source…
Main character syndrome Why romanticising your own life is philosophically dubious, setting up toxic narratives and an inability to truly…
First lunar farside samples from Chang’e-6 mission analyzed A team of Chinese scientists has studied the first lunar farside samples…
NASA’s Artemis science instrument gets tested in moon-like sandbox On Sept. 9 and 10, scientists and engineers tested NASA’s LEMS…
Frozen in time: Rock fossils hint at Mars’s ancient climate Long ago, flowing wind and water shaped Mars’s malleable sand…
Habitability around F-class Stars Some years back I read a science fiction story in which the planet where the action…
An ice-mining lunar rover powered by Americium-241 Conceptual illustration of the ice-mining lunar rover showing its main components including a…
What happens to the climate when Earth passes through interstellar clouds? Noctilucent clouds were once thought to be a fairly…
Potential indicators of life on other planets can be created in a lab One way to understand the potential for…
Hubble lights the way with new multiwavelength view of galaxy NGC 1559 The magnificent galaxy featured in this NASA/ESA Hubble…
Exoplanets could be hiding their atmospheres Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered orbit red dwarf stars. This isn’t because red…
Citizen science collaboration yields precise data on exoplanet WASP-77 A b A planet swings in front of its star, dimming…
Spacecraft, what do your robot eyes see? Cameras on spacecraft are our eyes into the Cosmos. Sometimes they teach us…
The forging of countries Two distinct and conflicting forms of nationalism – civic and ethnic – helped create the nation-states…
Astronomers just detected the biggest black hole jets ever seen—and named them Porphyrion The largest known black hole jets, 23…
Artemis I mission data show astronauts sent to the moon aboard Orion will be protected from radiation According to a…
New cosmic distance catalog could unlock the mysteries of universe formation A new catalog providing information on millions of distant…
Beamed Propulsion and Planetary Security Power beaming to accelerate a ‘lightsail’ has been pondered since the days when Robert Forward…
Astronomers discover new feature in exoplanet distribution that’s between the Neptunian Desert and Savanna Astronomers have uncovered the “Neptunian Ridge,”…
New video shows how tiny spacecraft will ‘swarm’ Proxima Centauri Earlier this year, NASA selected a rather interesting proposal for…
Cosmology is at a tipping point—we may be on the verge of discovering new physics For the past few years,…
Boeing ‘ran out of time’ on Starliner: astronaut stuck on ISS A US astronaut stuck on the International Space Station…
Stuck-in-space astronauts make first public comments since Boeing capsule left without them Stuck-in-space astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said…
Someone’s aliens Life thrives on Earth, and we even send evidence of our presence out into the Solar System. Is…
The risk of beauty W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we…
Combination and summary of ATLAS dark matter searches within 2HDM+a framework In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed that…
Image: Chili flowers bloom in International Space Station In July 2021, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station started growing…
Observational study supports century-old theory that challenges the Big Bang A Kansas State University engineer recently published results from an…
Green Mars: A Nanotech Beginning I want to return to Mars this morning because an emerging idea on how to…
National lab takes its radiation expertise to space An experiment designed to answer questions about the radiation environment for manned…
Formation of super-Earths proven limited near metal-poor stars In a new study, astronomers report novel evidence regarding the limits of…
New measurements reveal the enormous halos that shroud all galaxies in the universe Have you ever wanted to make a…
Space travel comes with risk—SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission will push the envelope further than ever Space is an unnatural environment…
Massive merger: Study reveals evidence for origin of supermassive black hole at galaxy’s center The origins of aptly named supermassive…
Inside, underneath, backward, upside-down From holes on Mars to a spun-around moon and a flipped reflection, space science involves looking…
Make it awkward! Rather than being a cringey personal failing, awkwardness is a collective rupture – and a chance to…
BepiColombo’s best images yet highlight fourth Mercury flyby The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has successfully completed its fourth of six gravity…
Sentinel-2C joins the Copernicus family in orbit Sentinel-2C launched into orbit on 5 September at 03:50 CEST (4 September 22:50…
NASA admits tension with Boeing over space rescue plan NASA admitted on Wednesday there was “tension” during meetings with Boeing…
NASA’s mini BurstCube mission detects its first gamma-ray burst The shoebox-sized BurstCube satellite has observed its first gamma-ray burst, the…
Pumping Energy into the Solar Wind The solar wind is ever enticing, providing as it does a highly variable stream…
Q&A: Scientist discusses the MESSENGER mission to Mercury Twenty years ago, the MESSENGER mission revolutionized our understanding of Mercury. We…
The great wealth wave The tide has turned – evidence shows ordinary citizens in the Western world are now richer…
Webb discovers six new ‘rogue worlds’ that provide clues to star formation Rogue planets, or free-floating planetary-mass objects (FFPMOs), are…
