Nuclear rockets could travel to Mars in half the time, but designing the reactors that would power them isn’t easy…
The sun unleashes its strongest flare this cycle Yesterday the sun released a huge solar flare, and it’s heading toward…
Glitter and glow This week we look forward to launches, gaze at glowing auroras, and get creative with glitter. Go…
An undulating thrill Once lauded as a wonder of the age, cocaine soon became the object of profound anxieties. What…
X-rays advance understanding of Earth’s core-mantle boundary and super-Earth magma oceans Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator…
NASA’s laser comms demo makes deep space record, completes first phase The Deep Space Optical Communications tech demo has completed…
Investigating the statistical likelihood of triple star systems hosting exoplanets Why is it important to search for exoplanets in triple…
Webb researchers discover lensed supernova, confirm Hubble tension Measuring the Hubble constant, the rate at which the universe is expanding,…
Third Time’s a Charm: A Planet at Barnard’s Star If you follow the fortunes of the stars closest to us,…
Hubble captures stellar nurseries in majestic spiral galaxy IC 1954 This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the…
Earth will have a temporary ‘mini moon’ for two months Earth’s moon will soon have some company—a “mini moon.” Go…
SpaceX launches rescue mission to return stranded astronauts A SpaceX rocket soared into the sky Saturday with two passengers on…
Ryugu samples call into question previous ideas about the formation of carbon-rich asteroids Asteroid Ryugu possibly did not travel as…
Cloudy skies, smooth sailing A Martian cloud atlas, LightSail wins big, and multiple missions coast toward launch. Go to Source…
Main character syndrome Why romanticising your own life is philosophically dubious, setting up toxic narratives and an inability to truly…
First lunar farside samples from Chang’e-6 mission analyzed A team of Chinese scientists has studied the first lunar farside samples…
NASA’s Artemis science instrument gets tested in moon-like sandbox On Sept. 9 and 10, scientists and engineers tested NASA’s LEMS…
Frozen in time: Rock fossils hint at Mars’s ancient climate Long ago, flowing wind and water shaped Mars’s malleable sand…
Habitability around F-class Stars Some years back I read a science fiction story in which the planet where the action…
An ice-mining lunar rover powered by Americium-241 Conceptual illustration of the ice-mining lunar rover showing its main components including a…
What happens to the climate when Earth passes through interstellar clouds? Noctilucent clouds were once thought to be a fairly…
Potential indicators of life on other planets can be created in a lab One way to understand the potential for…
Hubble lights the way with new multiwavelength view of galaxy NGC 1559 The magnificent galaxy featured in this NASA/ESA Hubble…
Exoplanets could be hiding their atmospheres Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered orbit red dwarf stars. This isn’t because red…
Citizen science collaboration yields precise data on exoplanet WASP-77 A b A planet swings in front of its star, dimming…
Spacecraft, what do your robot eyes see? Cameras on spacecraft are our eyes into the Cosmos. Sometimes they teach us…
The forging of countries Two distinct and conflicting forms of nationalism – civic and ethnic – helped create the nation-states…
Astronomers just detected the biggest black hole jets ever seen—and named them Porphyrion The largest known black hole jets, 23…
Artemis I mission data show astronauts sent to the moon aboard Orion will be protected from radiation According to a…
New cosmic distance catalog could unlock the mysteries of universe formation A new catalog providing information on millions of distant…
Beamed Propulsion and Planetary Security Power beaming to accelerate a ‘lightsail’ has been pondered since the days when Robert Forward…
Astronomers discover new feature in exoplanet distribution that’s between the Neptunian Desert and Savanna Astronomers have uncovered the “Neptunian Ridge,”…
New video shows how tiny spacecraft will ‘swarm’ Proxima Centauri Earlier this year, NASA selected a rather interesting proposal for…
Cosmology is at a tipping point—we may be on the verge of discovering new physics For the past few years,…
Boeing ‘ran out of time’ on Starliner: astronaut stuck on ISS A US astronaut stuck on the International Space Station…
Stuck-in-space astronauts make first public comments since Boeing capsule left without them Stuck-in-space astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said…
Someone’s aliens Life thrives on Earth, and we even send evidence of our presence out into the Solar System. Is…
The risk of beauty W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we…
Combination and summary of ATLAS dark matter searches within 2HDM+a framework In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed that…
Image: Chili flowers bloom in International Space Station In July 2021, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station started growing…
Observational study supports century-old theory that challenges the Big Bang A Kansas State University engineer recently published results from an…
Green Mars: A Nanotech Beginning I want to return to Mars this morning because an emerging idea on how to…
National lab takes its radiation expertise to space An experiment designed to answer questions about the radiation environment for manned…
Formation of super-Earths proven limited near metal-poor stars In a new study, astronomers report novel evidence regarding the limits of…
New measurements reveal the enormous halos that shroud all galaxies in the universe Have you ever wanted to make a…
Space travel comes with risk—SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission will push the envelope further than ever Space is an unnatural environment…
Massive merger: Study reveals evidence for origin of supermassive black hole at galaxy’s center The origins of aptly named supermassive…
Inside, underneath, backward, upside-down From holes on Mars to a spun-around moon and a flipped reflection, space science involves looking…
Make it awkward! Rather than being a cringey personal failing, awkwardness is a collective rupture – and a chance to…
BepiColombo’s best images yet highlight fourth Mercury flyby The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has successfully completed its fourth of six gravity…
Sentinel-2C joins the Copernicus family in orbit Sentinel-2C launched into orbit on 5 September at 03:50 CEST (4 September 22:50…
NASA admits tension with Boeing over space rescue plan NASA admitted on Wednesday there was “tension” during meetings with Boeing…
NASA’s mini BurstCube mission detects its first gamma-ray burst The shoebox-sized BurstCube satellite has observed its first gamma-ray burst, the…
Pumping Energy into the Solar Wind The solar wind is ever enticing, providing as it does a highly variable stream…
Q&A: Scientist discusses the MESSENGER mission to Mercury Twenty years ago, the MESSENGER mission revolutionized our understanding of Mercury. We…
The great wealth wave The tide has turned – evidence shows ordinary citizens in the Western world are now richer…
Webb discovers six new ‘rogue worlds’ that provide clues to star formation Rogue planets, or free-floating planetary-mass objects (FFPMOs), are…
Data from space probes show that Alfvén waves drive the acceleration and heating of the solar wind By studying data…
NASA cuts 2 from next SpaceX flight to make room for astronauts stuck at space station NASA on Friday cut…
Why the “habitable zone” doesn’t always mean habitable The habitable zone is a useful concept in astrobiology, but it can…
Observatory reveals key evidence of cosmic ray acceleration limit in W51 for first time The Large High Altitude Air Shower…
Blue Origin completes latest space tourism flight successfully Blue Origin flew its latest group of six thrill-seekers to the edge…
New algorithms could enhance autonomous spacecraft safety For humans throughout history, the sky has evoked thoughts of a vast emptiness,…
Our Earliest Ancestor Appeared Soon After Earth Formed Until we learn whether or not life exists on other planets, we…
Dark matter could have helped make supermassive black holes in the early universe It takes a long time for supermassive…
Solar panels for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope pass key tests NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Solar Array Sun Shield…
Old lesbians This is what an old lesbian looks like: the huge, joyful project capturing queer elder women’s stories before…
The moon was once covered by an ocean of molten rock, data from India’s space mission suggests Data from India’s…
Watch a star get destroyed by a supermassive black hole in the first simulation of its kind Giant black holes…
Could 2 NASA astronauts be stuck at the space station until next year? A decision is imminent Will two NASA…
Wow! Boom! Ultra cool! The “Wow!” signal has a new explanation, and an ultra-cool experiment advances quantum sensing in space….
Europe delivers for Artemis III The European Service Module that will power the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis III mission…
Europe delivers for Artemis III The European Service Module that will power the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis III mission…
New data on radiation show missions to Jupiter’s moon Europa are possible Scientists from NASA’s Juno mission have developed the…
Are Interstellar Quantum Communications Possible? A favorite editor of mine long ago told me never to begin an article with…
SpaceX rolls out new booster for Cape Canaveral launch SpaceX launches lately have been pushing the record envelope for booster…
Specialized materials could passively control the internal temperature of space habitats Areas of space have wildly different temperatures depending on…
Senegal’s first satellite successfully launched Senegal’s first satellite has been successfully launched into orbit, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye said, adding…
Scientists discover phenomenon impacting Earth’s radiation belts Two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have discovered a new type of “whistler,”…
Hubble rings in a new galactic view The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is situated in the…
Life in other worlds New research suggests liquid water might be hiding under the surface of Mars. Could life be…
C L R James and America The brilliant Trinidadian thinker is remembered as an admirer of the US but he…
Research team releases a 76 m-per-pixel global color image dataset and map of Mars Remote-sensing images of Mars contain rich…
International astronomy group joins calls for a lunar clock to keep time on the moon Time moves a tad faster…
NASA telescopes work out black hole’s feeding schedule By using new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels…
Primary instrument for Roman Space Telescope arrives at NASA Goddard The primary instrument for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope…
Webb captures new image of gassy baby stars NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a phenomenon for the very…
Offworld’s Prospector 1 mission to demonstrate ISRU on the Moon Concept illustration of Offworld’s Prospector 1 Mobile Excavator. Credits: Dallas…
Mars and Jupiter get chummy in the night sky. The planets won’t get this close again until 2033 Mars and…
Archaeologists conduct first ‘space excavation’ on ISS and discover surprising quirks of zero-G life New results from the first archaeological…
The Final Parsec Paradox: When Things Do Not Go Bump in the Night Something interesting is going on in the…
NASA tests deployment of Roman Space Telescope’s ‘visor’ The “visor” for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope recently completed several…
