Simulations show Saturn’s moon Enceladus shoots less ice into space than previous estimates In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens…
Simulation reveals uneven water distribution in Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere Caltech researchers have developed a new simulation of the hydrological cycle…
Rogue planet SIMP-0136 displays strong auroral activity similar to Northern Lights Strong Northern Lights-like activity is the standout feature of…
Icy planetesimal with high nitrogen and water content discovered in white dwarf’s atmosphere University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered the…
JWST searches for stars in a glowing gas cloud Star formation is a fundamental physical process in our universe. Stars…
Double launch day complete with SpaceX, ULA successes A busy week on the Space Coast saw two rockets launch within…
NASA launches mission to study sun-fueled solar bubble A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun’s magnetic bubble that shields…
‘Invisible’ asteroids near Venus may threaten Earth in the future An international study led by researchers at São Paulo State…
Collision between two bodies of similar mass may explain the formation of Mercury The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved…
Amateur astronomers help track asteroid to French impact site With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled…
Webb discovers ‘The Cliff’ object that could solve red dot mystery A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in…
New NASA mission to reveal Earth’s invisible ‘halo’ A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth’s invisible “halo,” the…
NASA’s Deep Space Communications demo exceeds project expectations NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded…
NASA’s tally of planets outside our solar system reaches 6,000 The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by…
How NASA’s Roman mission will unveil our home galaxy using cosmic dust NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help…
Scientists detected a potential biosignature on Mars—an astrobiologist explains the findings As the Perseverance rover traversed an ancient river valley…
Study finds exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e is unlikely to have a Venus- or Mars-like atmosphere In the search for habitable exoplanets, atmospheric…
Where did the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS come from? Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third ISO ever detected. It was discovered by…
Planets without plate tectonics and too little carbon dioxide could mean that technological alien life is rare The closest technological…
Volcanic emissions of reactive sulfur gases may have shaped early climate of Mars, making it more hospitable to life While…
‘Potential biosignatures’ found in ancient Mars lake A new study suggests a habitable past and signs of ancient microbial processes…
A hungry star is eating its cosmic twin at a rate never seen before A greedy white dwarf star not…
50 years ago, NASA sent two spacecraft to search for life on Mars. The missions’ findings are still discussed today…
Mars has a solid core, resolving a longstanding planetary mystery, according to new study Scientists have discovered that Mars has…
Image: Hubble spies galaxy with much to see While it may appear as just another spiral galaxy among billions in…
Asia will get a prime view of this weekend’s total lunar eclipse The year’s second total lunar eclipse is coming…
Vintage NASA: See Voyager’s 1990 ‘Solar System Family Portrait’ debut This week marks 48 years since the Sept. 5, 1977,…
Webb reveals warm space dust in far-off Makani galaxy’s circumgalactic medium In a distant galaxy called Makani, particles of dust…
Magnetic fields in infant universe may have been billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet The magnetic fields that…
A sharper image of the early universe: Program brings greater understanding to star and galaxy formation What was the universe…
Is there life on Saturn’s moon? Where there’s water, there’s a chance At first glance, Saturn’s moon Enceladus seems rather…
Webb captures dusty wisps round a planet-forming disk For this new Picture of the Month feature, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb…
Astronomers discover one of the most massive binary stars in the galaxy A research team has used both archival Hubble…
Earth-size stars and alien oceans: An astronomer explains the case for life around white dwarfs The sun will someday die….
GJ 1132 b doesn’t have an atmosphere, according to new JWST data Astronomers sometimes find conflicting data when trying to…
SpaceX looks to launch Starship on Tuesday night after two days of scrubs SpaceX has lined up its massive Starship…
How the Apollo missions unlocked the origins of the moon You know, if you think about it, and trust me…
Astronomers have glimpsed the core of a dying star—confirming theories of how atoms are made Astronomers have glimpsed the inner…
Dusty structure explains near vanishing of faraway star Stars die and vanish from sight all the time, but astronomers were…
Self-consistent model incorporates gas self-gravity effects to address accretion across cosmic scales A research team led by Prof. Jiao Chengliang…
New study counters idea that Jupiter’s mysterious core was formed by a giant impact A new Durham University study has…
XRISM reveals slow-moving hot gas near black hole during faint X-ray phase An international research team has reported remarkable findings…
Where are the interstellar objects 1I/’Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/Atlas headed now? In the past decade, astronomers have witnessed three interstellar…
Parker Solar Probe confirms decades-old theoretical models about magnetic reconnection New research led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has confirmed…
Space mice babies: Stem cells cryopreserved in space produce healthy offspring Features of spaceflight such as gravitational changes and circadian…
After repeated explosions, new test for Musk’s megarocket Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced Friday that its Starship megarocket is scheduled to…
Dark star clusters or extreme dwarf galaxies? Astrophysicists revisit Ursa Major III’s true nature Ursa Major III, the faintest object…
Astronauts launch space agriculture with seed pillows When the Crew-11 astronauts launched to the International Space Station on August 1,…
Optical magnetometer measures magnetic field direction for the first time For just over two years, a scalar magnetometer developed by…
Astronaut catches gigantic jet on camera On July 3, 2025, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a stunning photo of an…
On its fifth try, SpaceX manages launch of competitor Amazon’s satellites SpaceX was not one of Amazon’s original choices to…
Astronauts return to Earth with SpaceX after 5 months at the International Space Station Four astronauts returned to Earth on…
US astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, dead at 97 US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo…
Summer’s best meteor shower peaks soon. But the moon will interfere with viewing the Perseids Summer’s most dazzling meteor shower,…
Linking local lithologies to a larger landscape on Mars NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is continuing to explore a boundary visible…
Perseverance rover captures Mars vista as clear as day The imaging team of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has taken advantage…
NASA races to put nuclear reactors on Moon and Mars The United States is rushing to put nuclear power reactors…
Marking 13 years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity picks up new skills Thirteen years after Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are…
Bid to relocate US Space Shuttle Discovery faces museum pushback Tucked inside President Donald Trump’s flagship tax and spending bill…
Image: Webb takes a fresh look at a classic deep field This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope…
Astronauts launch to the space station after sidelined by Boeing’s troubled Starliner Astronauts sidelined for the past year by Boeing’s…
Simulations reveal surprising electron temperatures near M87 black hole’s event horizon The first black hole images stunned the world in…
Seismic activity on the moon could pose risk to long-term lunar infrastructure A new paper reveals that ground acceleration from…
The hunt for ‘planet nine’: Why there could still be something massive at the edge of the solar system Is…
Planet K2-18b may not host alien life, but it is home to a water-rich interior A large sub-Neptune-sized planet revolving…
European Vega C rocket ferries satellites into orbit A rocket carrying carbon dioxide- and Earth-observing satellites successfully blasted off from…
NASA says it will lose about 20 percent of its workforce The US space agency NASA will lose about 3,900…
How to watch two meteor showers peak together in late July It’s almost time for summer’s meteor shower duet. Go…
Heliostats could be used to detect asteroids, says researcher Sandia scientist John Sandusky believes he has found a way to…
JWST finds plenty of low mass black holes in the early universe Black holes played a critical role in the…
How the moon’s hidden protection shields against solar wind erosion The moon’s thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, has been a…
How NASA saved a camera from 370 million miles away The mission team of NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a…
Astronomers capture the birth of planets around a baby sun outside our solar system Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds…
Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago Our first meeting was a bit…
Vision problems emerge as astronauts spend months in orbit When astronauts began spending six months and more aboard the International…
NASA to launch SNIFS, the sun’s next trailblazing spectator July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral…
Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches meteoric $5.3 million at New York auction The largest piece of Mars ever…
The Habitable Worlds Observatory could find more very massive stars Very massive stars (VMSs) have had a massive impact on…
Research shows path toward protocells on Saturn’s moon Titan NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form…
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detect most massive black hole merger to date The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most…
Dark matter could create dark dwarfs at the center of the Milky Way Dark matter is one of nature’s most…
3I/ATLAS: Scientific paper details what’s known about the third-ever interstellar object When the news started to spread on July 1,…
The Milky Way could be teeming with more satellite galaxies than previously thought The Milky Way could have many more…
Ancient river systems reveal Mars was wetter than we thought The discovery of more than 15,000 kilometers of ancient riverbeds…
Youngest basaltic lunar meteorite fills nearly one billion-year gap in moon’s volcanic history A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical…
Is Earth inside a huge void? ‘Sound of the Big Bang’ hints at possible solution to Hubble tension Earth and…
Astronomers have discovered another puzzling interstellar object—this third one is big, bright and fast Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system…
Why is there no life on Mars? Rover finds a clue Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has…
This photo of the nearby Sculptor galaxy spans 65,000 light years Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all…
Reanalysis of Kepler data uncovers two planets in KOI-134 system with unusual orbital dynamics A new investigation into old Kepler…
AI-powered ChronoFlow uses stellar rotation rates to estimate stars’ ages Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding…
NASA missions help explain and predict severity of solar storms An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April…
Image: Hubble captures an active galactic center The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image…
Japan launches a climate change monitoring satellite on mainstay H2A rocket’s last flight Japan on Sunday successfully launched a climate…
Powerful magnets could unlock detection of high-frequency gravitational waves New research published in Physical Review Letters suggests that superconducting magnets…
Hey Siri, fix my spacecraft! A virtual assistant could help astronauts handle unexpected space mission issues When astronauts make the…
Discovery of ‘mini halo’ points to how the early universe was formed Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic…
The mystery of Mercury’s missing meteorites, and how we may have finally found some Most meteorites that have reached Earth…
Pulsars could have tiny mountains Imagine a star so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh as much…
Earth’s satellites at risk if asteroid smashes into moon: Study If a huge asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032,…
