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…
Space launches are changing the chemistry of Earth’s atmosphere, studies warn. Here’s what can be done Look up on a…
Red dwarf stars might starve alien plants of the ‘quality’ light they need to breathe Red dwarfs make up the…
Stars like our sun may maintain the same rotation pattern for life, contrary to 45 years of theoretical predictions Researchers…
Europe’s answer to Starship In the summer of 2023, something happened that engineers had talked about for decades but few…
A ‘Cosmic Positioning System’ in the outer solar system There have been plenty of attempts to resolve the “Hubble Tension”…
What is an exoplanet? An astrophysicist explains why they are vital for finding alien life Scientists might have just found…
Assessment of rare ‘teenage’ planetary system deepens understanding of cosmic evolution Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds…
A cosmic explosion with the force of a billion suns went unseen—until we caught its echo Some of the universe’s…
Apollo moon rocks reveal lunar magnetic field was briefly stronger than Earth’s Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, University…
Surprise solar eruptions on sun’s far side validate new forecasting method A team of scientists from around the world has…
Image: Curiosity rover surveys boxwork region of Mars NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama of boxwork formations—the low ridges…
Martian volcanoes could be hiding massive glaciers under a blanket of ash When we think of ice on Mars, we…
Occupy Mars? Or the moon? Get a reality check on Elon Musk’s plans It’s an age-old debate in space circles:…
Supercomputer simulations reveal rotation drives chemical mixing in red giant stars Advances in supercomputing have made solving a long‐standing astronomical…
42 years of measuring the sun, the Earth and the energy in between On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became…
Hubble identifies a near-invisible galaxy that may be 99% dark matter In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies…
Astronomers may have just found one of the missing links in galaxy evolution A team of 48 astronomers from 14…
What cold-water geysers on Earth reveal about the habitability of ocean worlds In the eastern Utah desert, carbon-dioxide-saturated water bubbles,…
The balloon mission raising the bar for exoplanet science The atmospheres of exoplanets have been a focal point of the…
Astronomers trace a star’s three-year infrared glow to black hole birth In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared…
Sophie Adenot, the second French woman to fly to space When she was growing up, Sophie Adenot plastered her childhood…
UK space firm Skyrora explores buying assets of struggling rival Orbex British company Skyrora, which designs and builds rockets to…
Unseen planet or brown dwarf may have hidden ‘rare’ fading star One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed…
NASA selects two Earth System Explorers missions Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and…
Image: Strong solar flare This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a strong solar flare…
The ‘Little red dots’ observed by Webb were direct-collapse black holes The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to…
A giant star is changing before our eyes and astronomers are watching in real time For decades, astronomers have been…
The dirty afterlife of a dead satellite Sometimes we humans get ahead of ourselves. We embark on grand engineering experiments…
NASA Langley makes final preparations for Artemis II mission to launch around the moon When Apollo 17 astronauts returned from…
Red giant stars can’t destroy all gas giants—some are hardy survivors Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a…
Reading the moon’s diary, one speck of dust at a time Magnetism on the moon has always been a bit…
NASA fuels its moon rocket in a crucial test to decide when Artemis astronauts will launch NASA fueled its new…
NASA begins a practice countdown for its first moonshot with astronauts in more than 50 years NASA began a two-day…
Powerful Milky Way stellar flares near black hole could refine galaxy center models Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica,…
Puzzling slow radio pulses are coming from space. A new study could finally explain them Cosmic radio pulses repeating every…
NASA researchers probe tangled magnetospheres of merging neutron stars New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with…
New fear unlocked: Runaway black holes Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our solar system…
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of hitting the moon. Here’s why that’s a scientific goldmine There’s a bright…
What is the universe made of? Experts weigh in on the mysterious force that shapes our cosmic history As the…
Chandra catalog now contains 1.3 million X-ray detections across the sky Like a recording artist who has had a long…
Halley’s Comet wrongly named: 11th-century English monk predates British astronomer The British astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley was not, after…
From lunar nights to Martian dust storms: Why batteries struggle in space Space agencies are no longer talking about visiting…
NASA head Isaacman tempers Artemis praise with ideas on the program’s future Even as NASA celebrated the rollout of the…
New NASA Artemis payloads to study moon’s terrain, radiation, history NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three new science investigations…
SunRISE SmallSats ace tests, moving closer to launch When the six tiny spacecraft of NASA’s SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space…
Improving astronaut fitness for deep space missions As we prepare for missions beyond Earth orbit, one crucial challenge remains: keeping…
Experiments bring Enceladus’ subsurface ocean into the lab Through new experiments, researchers in Japan and Germany have recreated the chemical…
Mysterious iron ‘bar’ discovered in famous nebula A mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron has been discovered inside the iconic Ring…
Astronomer uses ‘China Sky Eye’ to reveal binary origin of fast radio bursts An international team of astronomers, including researchers…
Hidden magma oceans could shield rocky exoplanets from harmful radiation Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths,…
From a new flagship space telescope to lunar exploration, global cooperation will make 2026 an exciting year for space In…
Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET—scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found For 21 years,…
Image: Artist’s concept of a white dwarf star A smaller white dwarf star (left) pulls material from a larger star…
As puzzling as a platypus: The JWST finds some hard to categorize objects The platypus is one of evolution’s lovable,…
X-ray spectra provide sharpest image to date of a rapidly spinning black hole The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM),…
Cold neutral gas in early universe prompts rethink of galaxy cluster evolution A small group of young researchers at the…
The electrifying science behind Martian dust Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its…
