Crew launch to ISS paves way for ‘stranded’ astronauts’ return Not long to go now: After more than nine months…
Atmospheric wave-studying mission releases data from first 3,000 orbits Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard…
Weighing in on a Mars water debate: Analysis challenges previous findings More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had…
Researchers develop glass sensors for the Einstein Telescope From 2035, the Einstein Telescope will be able to study gravitational waves…
Remember that asteroid that isn’t going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it Last year, astronomers…
How humans can reinvent themselves to live on other worlds Let’s face it: Space is a hostile environment for humans….
Watch the moon turn red during a total lunar eclipse in March A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon…
Here’s a look at moon landing hits and misses Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series…
Webb wows with incredible detail in actively forming star system High-resolution near-infrared light captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space…
Runaway stars reveal hidden black hole in Milky Way’s nearest neighbor Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive…
Astronomer finds gas giant exoplanets formed earlier than previously thought A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with…
Webb reveals planet-forming disks can last longer than previously thought If there were such a thing as a photo album…
Water might be older than we first thought, forming a key constituent of the first galaxies Water may have first…
Two lunar landings in a week for NASA’s private moon fleet More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo…
A new study reveals the structure of violent winds 1,300 light years away The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It’s a…
Mars time machine: Researchers create virtual model to decode red planet’s climate evolution Researchers are creating advanced simulations that will…
Designing a satellite to hunt small space debris A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist is participating in a U.S. government…
Image: The Milky Way on the horizon NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration…
One of the most massive black holes in the universe lurks at the center of the Cosmic Horseshoe In 2007,…
Lunar Trailblazer blasts off to map water on the moon On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera built by…
Do look up: How Earth can defend itself against asteroid There is a very small chance that an asteroid capable…
Elon Musk calls for deorbit of International Space Station as soon as possible Elon Musk’s latest space-related hammer throw is…
Musk in X spat with Danish astronaut over ‘abandoned’ ISS crew The world’s richest man Elon Musk got into a…
Odds plummet that asteroid will hit Earth in 2032 The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city…
Sulfur may be a new tool for finding alien life Astronomers have identified sulfur as a potentially crucial indicator in…
Jupiter’s moon Callisto is very likely an ocean world More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar…
Rho Cas and its kin: Study provides new insights into the mysterious outbursts of yellow hypergiants A recent five-year study…
Release of Type Ia supernovae data may hold key to the history of the universe A unique dataset of Type…
Research sheds light on using multiple CubeSats for in-space servicing and repair missions As more satellites, telescopes, and other spacecraft…
Does planetary evolution favor human-like life? Study ups odds we’re not alone Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the…
Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is unlikely to hit Earth in 2032 and how scientists keep track The threat of a…
NASA telescopes deliver stellar bouquet in time for Valentine’s day A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived….
NASA’s mini rover team is packed for lunar journey Three small NASA rovers that will explore the lunar surface as…
Massive stellar feedback influences star formation, finds study of W4 super-large HII region A new study has unveiled new insights…
Robot grippers could be used to remove space debris Blue tentacle-like arms attached to an Astrobee free-flying robot grab onto…
Researchers confirm an exoplanet potentially capable of sustaining life An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting…
There could be a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud hurling stars at the Milky Way Hypervelocity stars…
Roving the red planet: New paper documents first Mars mission soil samples A new paper released today documents the first…
Solar cycle study reveals trends in charged particle numbers and interactions A large team of researchers working on the Alpha…
En route to Jupiter, Europa Clipper captures images of stars Three months after its launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…
Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely We live in a golden age…
New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early solar system In October 2020, a van-sized…
Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world Asteroid samples fetched…
Surprising signatures in WASP-121b’s dynamic atmosphere challenge understanding of how ‘roasting marshmallows’ form Nearly one third of known exoplanets are…
From Earth to space: Testing tech in lava tubes for future space exploration What does an ancient lava tube in…
How well could Earth life survive on exoplanets? Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava…
Moon is not as ‘geologically dead’ as previously thought, new study reveals Scientists have studied the moon’s surface for decades…
Advanced radio telescope technology ‘sifts’ space for mysteries The first trial of an Australian-developed technology has detected mysterious objects by…
Space researchers build traffic light system to warn of dangerous solar storms Researchers have created an improved traffic light system…
A recent fast radio burst calls into question what astronomers believed they knew Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer…
A private US spacecraft headed to the moon captures a glorious view of Earth A private U.S. spacecraft bound for…
NASA JPL prepping for full year of launches, mission milestones With 2024 receding into the distance, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory…
PUNCH spacecraft make final pit stop before launch Four small suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest Research Institute, have…
A tether covered in solar panels could boost the ISS’s orbit The ISS’s orbit is slowly decaying. While it might…
NASA Kennedy ground systems prepping hardware for Artemis II and beyond Teams with NASA are gaining momentum as work progresses…
Watch doorbell camera capture rare meteorite strike in Canada A doorbell camera on a Canadian home captured rare video and…
Why is one half of Mars so different to the other? ‘Marsquakes’ may have just revealed the answer Mars is…
A seed-sized signal amplifier chip could boost space communications Smaller than a strawberry seed, this tiny signal amplifier was produced…
Bezos’ Blue Origin has successfully launched its New Glenn rocket to orbit, a feat 15 years in the making Just…
The first supernovae flooded the early universe with water, research suggests Water is the essence of life. Every living thing…
Image: Earth in far-ultraviolet On April 21, 1972, NASA astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 mission, took…
Neutron star ‘mountains’ would cause ripples in space-time Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser…
Five things to know about New Glenn, Blue Origin’s new rocket Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire…
Blue Origin set for first launch of giant New Glenn rocket A quarter of a century after its founding, Jeff…
‘What is that?’ Scientists explain white patch that appears near northern lights A whitish, gray patch that sometimes appears in…
Space Launch System could launch a Titan balloon mission Few places in the solar system are better suited to a…
NASA to test solution for radiation-tolerant computing in space Onboard computers are critical to space exploration, aiding nearly every spacecraft…
Will Comet G3 ATLAS perform at perihelion? What “may” be the best anticipated comet of 2025 is coming right up….
Relativistic electron beam could propel probe to Alpha Centauri, study suggests Getting a spacecraft to another star is a monumental…
Bezos’s Blue Origin poised for first orbital launch next week Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin is poised to…
Carbon in our bodies likely left galaxy and came back on cosmic ‘conveyer belt’ Life on Earth could not exist…
NASA’s LEXI will provide X-ray vision of Earth’s magnetosphere A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the moon as part…
NASA anticipates lunar findings from next-generation retroreflector Apollo astronauts set up mirror arrays, or “retroreflectors,” on the moon to accurately…
Dark energy camera captures the glittering galaxies of the Antlia Cluster NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a…
SpaceX knocks out 1st of final 2 Space Coast launches of 2024 SpaceX knocked out a midnight launch from Cape…
India rocket launches space docking mission India launched a rocket Monday carrying two small spacecraft to test docking in space,…
Astronomers discover an ultra-massive grand-design spiral galaxy Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has…
From dead galaxies to mysterious red dots, here’s what the James Webb Telescope has found in just 3 years On…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun’s scorching surface NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the…
Image: NASA’s Terra satellite captures 2015 eclipse shadow During the morning of March 20, 2015, a total solar eclipse was…
Two populations of dark comets in the solar system could tell researchers where the Earth got its oceans The water…
NASA probe makes closest ever pass by the Sun NASA’s pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history Tuesday, flying closer to…
New commercial Artemis moon rovers undergo testing at NASA Through NASA’s Artemis campaign, astronauts will land on the lunar surface…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe aims to fly closer to the sun like never before A NASA spacecraft aims to fly…
NASA cameras to capture interaction between Blue Ghost lander, moon’s surface Say cheese again, moon. We’re coming in for another…
Report analyzes long history of NASA support for commercial space NASA published a new report on Thursday highlighting 17 agency…
Clever trick to cook young stars detected for first time—astronomers highlight magnetic fields as the missing ingredient The missing ingredient…
Distant blazar discovery supports rapid black hole formation in the early universe Astronomers have discovered an important piece of the…
Brain cells mature faster in space but stay healthy: ISS study Microgravity is known to alter the muscles, bones, the…
New study says we’re unlikely to find liquid water on Mars anytime soon More than a hundred years ago, astronomer…
Japan’s Space One delays Kairos rocket launch again A startup aiming to become Japan’s first private firm to put a…
Elon Musk wants to turn SpaceX’s Starbase site into a Texas city SpaceX is launching a new mission: making its…
ALMA observes dusty site of planet formation The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has successfully observed a site of planet…
M87’s powerful jet unleashes rare gamma-ray outburst Also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, M87 is the brightest object…
New technique for spotting Dyson rings unveiled Dyson spheres and rings have always held a special fascination for me. The…
Astronomers discover more dark comets The first dark comet—a celestial object that looks like an asteroid but moves through space…
The moon’s biggest and most ancient crater is more circular than previously thought The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon’s…
Space station trajectory data now available Space Station trajectory data is now available to the public! This data, called an…
Switchbacks: Solar jets may hold the key for understanding complete magnetic field reversals NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission has detected…
Citizen scientist data help uncover the mysteries of a blue low-latitude aurora Colorful auroras appeared around Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido…
