Defective software could have doomed Boeing’s crew capsule Defective software could have doomed Boeing’s crew capsule during its first test…
Can polarity-inverted membranes self-assemble on Saturn’s moon Titan? Astrobiologists are focused on resolving two central questions to understand the environmental…
Astronomers reveal rare double nucleus in nearby ‘Cocoon Galaxy’ Allen Lawrence, wrapping up a long career as an electrical engineer,…
Pluto’s icy heart makes winds blow A “beating heart” of frozen nitrogen controls Pluto’s winds and may give rise to…
Researchers find clues to how hazardous space radiation begins Scientists at the University of New Hampshire have unlocked one of…
Your brain on Mars: How scientists will track astronauts’ mental performance on missions A journey to Mars is not going…
Iran to launch observation satellite in ‘coming days’ Iran is preparing to launch a new scientific observation satellite in the…
Space station’s cosmic detector working after 4 spacewalks The cosmic detector that required a series of difficult spacewalking repairs is…
Astronomers witness the dragging of space-time in stellar cosmic dance An international team of astrophysicists led by Australian Professor Matthew…
Two defunct satellites speed toward possible collision Two decommissioned satellites sped towards each other Wednesday at a combined speed of…
‘Curious and curiouser!’ Meteorite chunk contains unexpected evidence of presolar grains An unusual chunk in a meteorite may contain a…
Tarantula Nebula spins web of mystery in Spitzer image The Tarantula Nebula, seen in this image by the Spitzer Space…
Spacewalking astronauts close to fixing cosmic ray detector Spacewalking astronauts worked to complete repairs to a cosmic ray detector outside…
For hottest planet, a major meltdown, study shows In the scorching atmosphere of exoplanet KELT-9b, even molecules are torn to…
TV provider shifting satellite to high orbit over explosion fears US authorities said Friday they had granted permission to a…
Astronomers detect large amounts of oxygen in ancient star’s atmosphere An international team of astronomers from the University of California…
Canberra astronomer becomes first Australian to win major US science award in 133 years Lisa Kewley has transformed our understanding…
EU announces funding for Ariane 6 and other space-tech The European Union on Tuesday announced 200 million euros ($222 million)…
Image: The sun in 2019 The changing activity of our sun as seen by ESA’s Proba-2 satellite in 2019. Go…
SpaceX launches, destroys rocket in astronaut escape test SpaceX completed the last big test of its crew capsule before launching…
Rough seas delay escape test for SpaceX crew capsule Rough seas prompted SpaceX on Saturday to delay the emergency escape…
Scientists measure the evolving energy of a solar flare’s explosive first minutes Toward the end of 2017, a massive new…
Nearly barren Icelandic landscapes guide search for extraterrestrial life New research on microbial lifeforms living in nearly barren volcanic landscapes…
Taking the temperature of dark matter Warm, cold, just right? Physicists at the University of California, Davis are taking the…
Hot gas feeds spiral arms of the Milky Way An international research team, with significant participation of astronomers from the…
TESS dates an ancient collision with our galaxy A single bright star in the constellation of Indus, visible from the…
Wanted: Girlfriend to fly to the Moon with Japanese billionaire A Japanese billionaire has launched an online wanted ad for…
SuperTIGER on its second prowl—130,000 feet above Antarctica A balloon-borne scientific instrument designed to study the origin of cosmic rays…
Eyeing Moon, NASA hosts first public astronaut graduation ceremony NASA on Friday celebrated its latest class of graduating astronauts at…
Lucy mission now has a new destination Less than two years before launch, scientists associated with NASA’s Lucy mission, led…
Virgin Galactic’s next spaceship reaches build milestone Virgin Galactic’s next passenger spaceship has reached a major construction milestone, the company…
New map of Milky Way reveals giant wave of stellar nurseries Astronomers at Harvard University have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped…
Binary star V Sagittae to explode as very bright nova by century’s end Currently, the faint star V Sagittae, V…
Looking back at a New Horizons New Year’s to remember Safe to say, 2020 came in more quietly for many…
Planetary nebula WR 72 has hydrogen-poor knots, study finds Using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), astronomers have conducted spectroscopic…
Scientists find evidence that Venus has active volcanoes New research led by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and published today…
Astronomers say SpaceX’s satellites are too bright in the sky. Friday’s launch will try to fix that They were seen…
New device in New Mexico turns back clock on astronomy A newly forged steel instrument that can pinpoint the path…
Blazar variability Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies that are accreting material. These…
New study investigates properties of the Melotte 105 cluster A new study recently conducted by astronomers has investigated the Melotte…
Mars 2020 rover to seek ancient life, prepare human missions The Mars 2020 rover, which sets off for the Red…
US astronaut sets record for longest spaceflight by a woman A U.S. astronaut set a record Saturday for the longest…
China launches powerful rocket in boost for 2020 Mars mission China Friday launched one of the world’s most powerful rockets…
‘Ring of fire’ eclipse wows across Asia Skywatchers from Saudi Arabia and Oman to India and Singapore were treated to…
LAMOST first data release provides fundamental parameters of nearly 30,000 M dwarfs Based on the first data release (DR1) from…
Our favorite holiday gift? A box of Apollo moon soil Fortunately for today’s scientists, Apollo-era leaders had the foresight to…
Deaf people at risk of being ‘excluded from astronomy’ The deaf community risks being excluded from aspects of modern science…
Boeing capsule returns to Earth after aborted space mission (Update) Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico…
Image: Hubble’s close-up of spiral’s disk, bulge This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows IC 2051, a galaxy…
Nightside barrier gently brakes ‘bursty’ plasma bubbles The solar wind that pummels the Earth’s dayside magnetosphere causes turbulence, like air…
Boeing sends ‘Rosie’ dummy to space in key crewless mission Boeing is set to launch its Starliner capsule Friday on…
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover completes its first drive NASA’s next Mars rover has passed its first driving test. A preliminary…
Solving the challenges of long duration space flight with 3-D printing The International Space Station has continuously been home to…
3-D print a piece of Mars for the holidays There’s a galaxy of gifts out there for space nerds. Researchers…
Researchers discover exoplanets can be made less habitable by stars’ flares The discovery of terrestrial exoplanets, planets that orbit stars…
How does our Milky Way galaxy get its spiral form? A question that has long puzzled scientists is how our…
RIT and IAR observe pulsars for the first time from South America Rochester Institute of Technology and the Instituto Argentino…
Boeing’s crew capsule declared ready for 1st space flight Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule finally has a launch date for its…
Revealing the physics of the Sun with Parker Solar Probe Nearly a year and a half into its mission, Parker…
Stardust from red giants Some of the Earth’s building material was stardust from red giants, researchers from ETH Zurich have…
NASA says core stage of next Moon rocket now ready NASA has completed the giant rocket that will take US…
SpaceX delivers ‘mighty mice,’ worms, robot to space station SpaceX made an early holiday delivery to the International Space Station…
We’re using lasers and toaster-sized satellites to beam information faster through space Satellites are becoming increasingly important in our lives,…
Research suggests that hibernation is a likely option to make deep space exploration a reality Space travelers sleeping in hibernation…
OSIRIS-REx mission explains Bennu’s mysterious particle events Shortly after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by…
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…
