Looking for exoplanet life in all the right spectra A Cornell senior has come up with a way to discern…
NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS),…
Black hole or newborn stars? SOFIA finds galactic puzzle Universities Space Research Association (USRA) today announced that scientists on NASA’s…
Searching for star prints in space and stories Stars don’t shine forever. Eventually, even the brightest stars run out of…
NASA shares mid-sized robotic lunar lander concept with industry As NASA presses forward with the agency’s mission to the Moon,…
Ultraluminous X-ray source UGC 6456 ULX investigated in detail Russian astronomers have performed a detailed study of one of the…
European Space Agency agrees record budget to meet new challenges European Space Agency (ESA) members agreed Thursday a record 14.4…
European Space Agency seeks funding boost from member states The European Space Agency is asking its 22 member states for…
Space travel can make the gut leaky Bacteria, fungi, and viruses can enter our gut through the food we eat….
Reports of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot demise greatly exaggerated The shrinking of the clouds of the Great Red Spot on…
Image: Hubble eyes an emitting galaxy For this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turned its powerful eye toward an…
Chemistry in the turbulent interstellar medium Over 200 molecules have been discovered in space, some (like Buckminsterfullerene) very complex with…
Image: Hera scans Didymoon Hera is a candidate ESA mission be presented to ESA’s Space19+ meeting next week as part of…
The simultaneous merging of giant galaxies An international research team led by scientists from Göttingen and Potsdam proved for the…
Hubble studies gamma-ray burst with the highest energy ever seen New observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have investigated…
Fly me (partway) to the moon Last week, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National…
How LISA pathfinder detected dozens of ‘comet crumbs’ LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that…
Image: Hubble spots a curious spiral The universe is simply so vast that it can be difficult to maintain a…
Astrophysicists find when galaxies rotate, size matters The direction in which a galaxy spins depends on its mass, researchers have…
Nearly extreme black holes which attempt to regrow hair become bald again Black holes ‘have no hair’: no attributes that…
NASA warned of safety risks in delayed private crew launches NASA auditors warn the space agency faces “significant safety and…
Mysteries behind interstellar buckyballs finally answered Scientists have long been puzzled by the existence of so-called “buckyballs”—complex carbon molecules with…
NASA renames faraway ice world ‘Arrokoth’ after backlash Ultima Thule, the farthest cosmic body ever visited by a spacecraft, has…
Mini Mercury skips across sun’s vast glare in rare transit Mini Mercury skipped across the vast, glaring face of the…
Mercury putting on rare show Monday, parading across the sun Mercury is putting on a rare celestial show next week,…
Scientists further refine how quickly the universe is expanding Wielding state-of-the-art technologies and techniques, a team of Clemson University astrophysicists…
NASA instrument to probe planet clouds on European mission NASA will contribute an instrument to a European space mission that…
Boeing: Pin problem caused parachute issue in capsule test Boeing says a problem with a pin caused its Starliner capsule…
132 grams to communicate with Mars Dust storms, ionising cosmic radiation, extreme cold at night … Mars is not very…
TESS presents panorama of southern sky The glow of the Milky Way—our galaxy seen edgewise—arcs across a sea of stars…
Thousands of new globular clusters have formed over the last billion years Globular clusters may contain hundreds of thousands of…
Mobile app to provide the latest on black hole collisions and merging neutron stars PhD students from the Institute for…
Jupiter-sized exoplanet discovered through microlensing The path of a light beam is bent by the presence of mass, and a…
Mobile app to provide the latest on black hole collisions and merging neutron stars PhD students from the Institute for…
3-2-1-Cookoff! Astronauts to bake cookies with new test oven Forget reheated, freeze-dried space grub. Astronauts are about to get a…
SwRI to plan Pluto orbiter mission NASA has funded Southwest Research Institute to study the important attributes, feasibility and cost…
TESS reveals an improbable planet Using asteroseismology, a team led by an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA)…
Virgin Galactic becomes first space tourism company to land on Wall Street Virgin Galactic landed on Wall Street Monday, debuting…
Space: a major legal void The internet of space is here. Go to Source Author: Phys.org provides the latest news…
Chandra spots a mega-cluster of galaxies in the making Astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other telescopes…
New research on giant radio galaxies defies conventional wisdom Conventional wisdom tells us that large objects appear smaller as they…
With NASA telescope on board, search for intelligent aliens ‘more credible’ Astronomers dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)…
US vows closer cooperation with French space agency The United States on Wednesday pledged closer cooperation with France’s space agency,…
Cosmic Yeti from the dawn of the universe found lurking in dust Astronomers accidentally discovered the footprints of a monster…
Lucy mission completes critical design review The Lucy mission led by Southwest Research Institute is one step closer to its…
Record-number of over 200,000 galaxies confirm: Galaxy mergers ignite star bursts When two galaxies merge, there are brief periods of…
NASA’s planetary protection review addresses changing reality of space exploration NASA released a report Friday with recommendations from the Planetary…
Mars 2020 unwrapped and ready for testing In this time-lapse video, taken on Oct. 4, 2019, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion…
Mars InSight’s ‘mole’ is moving again NASA’s InSight spacecraft has used its robotic arm to help its heat probe, known…
Virgin Galactic unveils commercial space suits The date for the world’s first commercial space flight is not even confirmed yet,…
NASA moves up 1st all-female spacewalk to fix power unit NASA is moving up the first all-female spacewalk to this…
2I/Borisov: Interstellar comet with a familiar look A new comet discovered by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov is an outcast from…
Astrophysicist suggests light might be a problem for life on a planet orbiting a black hole Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist…
Emirati astronaut returns home to hero’s welcome An Emirati astronaut who became the first Arab to reach the International Space…
Clock ticks as SpaceX builds craft for NASA Two weeks ago, the head of NASA seemed sick of waiting for…
Study suggests ice on lunar south pole may have more than one source The discovery of ice deposits in craters…
Researchers theorize origins of magnetars, the strongest magnets in the universe How do some neutron stars become the strongest magnets…
Boeing to invest $20 million in Virgin Galactic Boeing plans to invest $20 million in Virgin Galactic as the space…
Artemis, meet ARTEMIS: Pursuing Sun science at the moon By 2024, NASA will land astronauts, including the first woman and…
Astronauts replace old batteries in 1st of 5 spacewalks Astronauts hustled through the first of five spacewalks to replace old…
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover tests descent-stage separation In this picture from Sept. 28, 2019, engineers and technicians working on the…
NASA sets 1st all-female spacewalk after suit flap in spring The first all-female spacewalk is back on, six months after…
Sun science has a bright future on the moon There are many reasons NASA is pursuing the Artemis mission to…
Japan spacecraft releases rover to asteroid in last mission Japan’s space agency says its Hayabusa2 spacecraft has released a small…
Five things we learned from Elon Musk’s rollout of the SpaceX Starship prototype A prototype of SpaceX’s Starship Mars spaceship…
Spitzer spots a starry region bursting with bubbles This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of…
Musk unveils SpaceX rocket designed to get to Mars and back Elon Musk has unveiled a SpaceX spacecraft designed to…
Going underground in Slovenia … to prepare for outer space In Slovenia’s dramatically beautiful Karst region, six astronauts have been…
Many gas giant exoplanets waiting to be discovered There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars,…
Big world around tiny star puts new spin on planet formation A giant world discovered around a tiny star is…
The next generation: mice can reproduce after space stints, study finds Male mice that spent more than a month in…
Growing a smarter model for brain research in space Researchers studying neurological diseases face several daunting challenges. For one thing,…
Can a new space race connect the world to the internet? Tech giants and billionaires hope a new, cheaper crop…
Could Venus have been habitable? Venus may have been a temperate planet hosting liquid water for 2-3 billion years, until…
Introducing VPLanet: A virtual planet simulator for modeling distant worlds across time University of Washington astrobiologist Rory Barnes has created…
Open cluster NGC 2345 investigated in detail European astronomers have performed a comprehensive study of the young open cluster NGC…
Pulsating gamma rays from neutron star rotating 707 times a second An international research team led by the Max Planck…
NASA manager casts doubt on 2024 moon landing by astronauts A top NASA manager cast doubt Wednesday on the space…
Huge volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io erupts on regular schedule Volcanic eruptions are difficult to predict, but observations have shown…
Brad Pitt talks weightlessness and calluses on phone call to ISS When Brad Pitt called the International Space Station (ISS)…
Ohio senators propose renaming NASA site for Neil Armstrong Ohio’s U.S. senators want Congress to rename a NASA research facility…
NASA’s WFIRST will help uncover the universe’s fate Scientists have discovered that a mysterious pressure dubbed “dark energy” makes up…
Gemini observatory captures multicolor image of first-ever interstellar comet The first-ever comet from beyond our Solar System has been successfully…
The rare molecule weighing in on the birth of planets Astronomers using one of the most advanced radio telescopes have…
Black hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be getting hungrier The enormous black hole at the center…
Are black holes made of dark energy? Two University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle…
Hubble explores the formation and evolution of star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud Just as people of the same…
India locates lander lost on final approach to moon The lander module from India’s moon mission was located on the…
India loses contact with Moon lander (Update) India’s space programme suffered a huge setback Saturday after losing contact with an…
Putin rebukes officials over space delays President Vladimir Putin on Thursday gave a dressing down to space officials on a…
Team behind world’s first black hole image wins ‘Oscar of science’ The 347 scientists who collaborated to produce the world’s…
Planetary collisions can drop the internal pressures in planets A new study from Caltech shows that giant impacts can dramatically…
ESA re-routes satellite to avoid SpaceX collision risk The European Space Agency said Tuesday it had altered the trajectory of…
Europe and US teaming up for asteroid deflection Asteroid researchers and spacecraft engineers from the US, Europe and around the…
HOT SHOT findings could save defense tech developers time and money An early milestone for developing missile technologies is to…
Exoplanets can’t hide their secrets from innovative new instrument In an unprecedented feat, an American research team discovered hidden secrets…
HOT SHOT findings could save defense tech developers time and money An early milestone for developing missile technologies is to…
Space Command set to open, will defend US interests in space Mindful of President Donald Trump’s intense interest in space,…
Busy older stars outpace stellar youngsters, new study shows The oldest stars in our Galaxy are also the busiest, moving…
NASA dangles $7 billion carrot for next moon landing The agency that sent humans to the moon 50 years ago…
