Are alien probes hiding in our backyard? A new study says we’ve barely looked Even at this early stage in…
Venus’ strange rotation was likely triggered by a high-velocity, moon-sized impactor Venus’ bizarre and extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation on its…
The extraordinary physiological challenges facing amputee John McFall in space The UK Space Agency has announced an agreement with Vast—a…
South African telescope detects record‑breaking signal from the early universe Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have…
Meet REMORA: The autonomous space fleet built to tag and track asteroids To truly understand what an asteroid is made…
A look at the SpaceX IPO by the numbers Elon Musk is all about big numbers—millions, billions, even trillions—and there…
NASA’s CloudCube pioneers miniaturized radar to study clouds, precipitation A compact, multifrequency radar built by a team at NASA’s Jet…
NASA unveils Artemis III astronauts to test technology for a future moon landing NASA on Tuesday revealed the crew for…
Artemis II moon mission research continues on Earth Since NASA’s Artemis II crew members safely splashed down in the Pacific…
Mysterious signals keep coming from space: Astronomers find their ‘Rosetta stone’ A pair of stars spiraling around each other. That’s…
Smart surfaces face zero gravity test in boiling heat experiments A research team led by Davoud Jafari at the University…
Did this star eat its planets? A new study offers clues on ‘chemical paradox’ of a binary system Astronomers have…
Image: Colorful, chaotic Jupiter NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of Jupiter’s northern hemisphere during its 61st close flyby…
The next-generation Very Large Array prototype gathers its first light The Very Large Array, the iconic field of radio antennas…
How heavy can a neutron star get? The physics of neutron stars are almost too fantastic to believe: something the…
Roman telescope’s massive infrared mirror is ready to fly NASA has completed its final inspection of the primary mirror on…
A natural chemistry laboratory in protostar shock waves Life exists because elements combine to form complex organic molecules. Astrochemistry studies…
Is extracting oxygen from lunar soil the future of space exploration? A new race to the moon is emerging between…
Blue Origin investigates rocket explosion as public is warned about possible wreckage washing ashore Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is assessing…
Mineral clues in Gale Crater track ancient Mars climate change While NASA imagery has shown evidence of ancient rivers and…
The definitive census of multiple star systems within ten parsecs Our sun is a loner. It lacks a stellar companion…
Astrophysicists strike black gold with treasure trove of gravitational wave detections Researchers from the University of Glasgow’s Institute for Gravitational…
Supermassive black holes can render exoplanets uninhabitable at great distances The thinking around exoplanet habitability is mostly concerned with a…
Study shows how sunspot activity speeds up reentries It’s getting crowded up there. Over the past few years, the advent…
As corporations race for the stars, we need international collaboration on space governance The science academies of G7 member countries…
Just outside Jupiter, one region may have forged six meteorite parent bodies When the solar system formed, a disk of…
NASA’s AWE instrument completes mission to study Earth’s effect on space weather On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s…
Neptune’s mysterious moon Nereid may be original survivor of Triton’s chaotic arrival Neptune’s far-flung moon Nereid may be the last…
AtLAST, a telescope that could reveal the missing half of the universe A new European-led telescope could map the dusty,…
Mars reveals first Zwan-Wolf effect deep in its atmosphere during a solar storm In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars…
Falling space debris poses an escalating risk as spacecraft get stronger and more heat resistant When it comes to space…
First outbursting hot subdwarf binary discovered An international team of astronomers has utilized the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the…
Customizable drinks could provide essential nutrients during space missions After the success of Artemis II, longer space journeys are expected,…
Spain gears up for August total solar eclipse Spain, one of the few places in the world where a total…
New UFO files offer no answers—but something is happening in the skies The US Government has released a new trove…
Study identifies geysers the JUICE mission could explore on Ganymede Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, is also the solar system’s largest…
NASA fuel cell tests pave way for energy storage on the moon With a small blue crane, four researchers hoist…
Radio telescopes confirm 3.3-million-light-year halo in unusually quiet galaxy cluster Astronomers have employed the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT)…
Scientists trace latest interstellar comet’s home to a cold, isolated corner of the Milky Way The comet that rambled past…
Asteroid Apophis will skim past Earth in 2029, and a new joint mission plans to watch every change The European…
Ultrahigh-energy cosmic messengers may carry ultraheavy secrets There may be an ultraheavy explanation for the mystery surrounding the origins of…
How the rise of continents may have set the stage for life on Earth Earth’s earliest continents may have set…
CPR simulator for space use tracks the differences of blood flow in reduced gravity The new focus on manned missions…
We might have massively underestimated Io’s thermal output Io is a world of extremes. It is by far the most…
A bright moon may dim the Eta Aquarid meteor shower made up of Halley’s comet debris The Eta Aquarid meteor…
Solar radio bursts reveal hidden magnetic switchbacks near the sun, Parker Solar Probe data suggest Solar radio bursts are intrinsically…
NASA Laser Terminal enhances views during Artemis II mission Millions of people watched the historic launch of Artemis II and…
US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City One of the most powerful radar systems ever launched into space…
Drone radar reveals buried glaciers on Earth, guiding the search for water on Mars Understanding how to explore hidden glaciers…
Thinner than hair and stretchable like rubber, this new shield tackles a space-age problem in one layer Shielding materials are…
JWST hunts for an ‘Earth-moon’ twin in a habitable zone, but the star has other plans The moon has played…
Two blazing quasars caught waltzing into a merger Astronomers, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have confirmed the existence…
Contribution to Artemis II Moon mission sees successful test of a space camera under cosmic ray conditions The GSI Helmholtzzentrum…
The most energetic neutrino ever detected could be primordial In the exotic world of particle physics, neutrinos may be the…
Milky Way’s ‘little cousins’ may hold clues about infant universe Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies—tiny satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way—have long…
Image: Belts of green in the Washington suburbs Along the northeast side of the Capital Beltway in Maryland, green spaces…
Mapping the hidden structure of the universe The universe has a hidden structure, and a University of Virginia professor is…
What makes Mars’ magnetotail flap? Two spacecraft point to magnetic reconnection The sun continuously blasts charged, magnetic field-carrying particles, or…
Sulfur-rich Mercury magmas behave differently than Earth’s do Mercury is a small, rocky planet about which researchers know relatively little….
DESI completes planned 3D map of the universe and continues exploring The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has successfully completed…
Volunteers discover rare space weather events using their ears Our planet rests inside a magnetic cocoon filled with plasma—but it’s…
New open-source Python-based software boosts space-weather modeling University of Birmingham experts have created open-source computer software that helps scientists understand…
‘Interstellar glaciers’: NASA’s SPHEREx maps vast galactic ice regions NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of…
Research helps power safe return of astronauts in historic Orion splashdown When NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific…
Self-interacting dark matter may solve three cosmic puzzles A study led by UC Riverside physicist Hai-Bo Yu suggests that a…
How Artemis II’s Earthset photo compares with the iconic Earthrise image from 1968 As NASA’s Artemis II mission completed its…
Astronomers find evidence for three subpopulations of merging black holes Astronomers analyzing gravitational-wave data from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration have reported…
Chang’e mission samples reveal how exogenous organic matter evolves on the moon Elements essential to life, such as carbon, nitrogen,…
Medieval Japanese poetry and buried trees help elucidate volatile space weather On Earth, extreme solar activity often appears as beautiful,…
Student research on coronal holes improves space weather forecasting Fast solar winds originating from the sun can have direct impacts…
Parabolic flight test shows lasers can propel graphene aerogels in microgravity Lasers could one day steer solar sails and adjust…
If life exists in Venus’s atmosphere, it could have come from Earth The theory of panspermia holds that life is…
Artemis astronauts begin fifth day on historic moon mission The four astronauts on NASA’s Artemis 2 mission began their fifth…
Two’s company: Scientists identify new class of star remnants In about 5 to 8 billion years, our sun is expected…
The depths of Neptune and Uranus may be ‘superionic’ The interiors of ice giant planets like Uranus and Neptune could…
The unseen challenges of life on the moon For the first time since the Apollo era, humans are preparing not…
Mercury scout mission concept with solar sail propulsion The planet Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, and also…
Seven missions launched to test optimized data transfer from space Eight CubeSats and one payload supported by the European Space…
How the solar wind really works The sun, our nearest star, never stops breathing. Every second of every day, it…
ZTF discovers a new mass-transferring brown dwarf binary system Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and elsewhere report…
Scientists detect magnetic waves deep within the sun, helping predict solar activity Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi have discovered new…
He suddenly couldn’t speak in space. NASA astronaut says his medical scare remains a mystery The astronaut who prompted NASA’s…
NASA’s Artemis II mission will take an astronaut crew around the Moon: The long road to launch NASA is once…
Distant galaxy fades 20-fold in just two decades, challenging how supermassive black holes evolve An international team led by a…
AI approach uncovers dozens of hidden planets in NASA’s TESS data Astronomers at the University of Warwick have validated over…
Shift in key cosmic inflation measurement could be a statistical artifact For the last few decades, researchers have been studying…
All 5 fundamental units of life’s genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample A new study reveals all…
Newly discovered photos show astronaut Neil Armstrong after the Gemini 8 emergency Sixty years after Neil Armstrong barely survived an…
A self-sufficient Mars garden? How cyanobacteria-based fertilizer could grow edible biomass A research team from the Center for Applied Space…
NASA’s Artemis missions promise a return to the moon—but when? NASA’s Artemis II mission plans to fly around the moon…
How two dim stars came together to shine brightly Brown dwarfs get a bad rap in the stellar world, often…
From dust to planets: Parabolic flight reveal a turbulent path How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately…
A 60-year old mystery about the moon’s magnetosphere is finally solved One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that…
CHEOPS discovery defies planetary formation rules We’re starting to see just how exceptional our own solar system and its history…
Dry ice detected in a planetary nebula for the first time An international team of astronomers has employed the James…
Dragonfly mission begins rotorcraft integration, testing stage Dragonfly integration and testing—the activities involved in assembling the mission’s rotorcraft lander and…
AI accelerates elucidation of nuclear forces with explosive neutron star data A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand…
The Rubin Observatory’s LSST will detect imminent impactors before they crash into Earth The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) has barely…
How jagged moon dust could support future astronauts Lunar dust can be a pain—but it’s also literally the ground we…
Evaluating landing sites for China’s manned moon mission Observations of the Rimae Bode region on the moon reveal five distinct…
