Capturing a comet’s tail to keep Earth safe from the sun A comet is set to pass by Earth this…
Rocket propellant tanks for NASA’s Artemis III mission take shape As NASA works to develop all the systems needed to…
Mars samples project looms large in final spending talks A complex project aimed at retrieving rock and dirt samples from…
Image: Hubble views a massive star forming This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is teeming with color and…
NASA’s final tally shows spacecraft returned double the amount of asteroid rubble NASA finally has counted up all the asteroid…
Far from predictable Some things, like solar cycles, are hard to predict. Others, like Zoozve taking the world by storm,…
Ant geopolitics Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows…
Spot the king of planets: Observe Jupiter Jupiter is our solar system’s undisputed king of the planets. Jupiter is bright…
Flame burns out on NASA’s long-running spacecraft fire experiment NASA recently concluded the final mission of its Spacecraft Fire Safety…
Saturn’s largest moon most likely uninhabitable A study led by Western astrobiologist Catherine Neish shows the subsurface ocean of Titan—the…
Otto Struve: A Prescient Look at Exoplanet Detection Some things just run in families. If you look into the life…
Into the belly of the rover: VIPER’s final science instrument installed A team of engineers is preparing to integrate TRIDENT—short…
Scientists identify water molecules on asteroids for the first time Using data from the retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy…
Saturn’s Death Star-looking moon may have vast underground ocean Astronomers have found the best evidence yet of a vast, young…
Which came first: Black holes or galaxies? Black holes not only existed at the dawn of time, they birthed new…
Hubble spots a galaxy shrouded by stars This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a densely packed field of stars…
Cool and mysterious A cool moon, a mysterious planet, and a potentially hazardous asteroid feature in this week’s space news…
The best stories smell When scents are used to intensify a narrative, they heighten young readers’ emotions and enrich their…
Results from South Pole Telescope’s new camera emerge For more than five years, scientists at the South Pole Telescope in…
NASA’s new experimental antenna tracks deep space laser An experimental antenna has received both radio frequency and near-infrared laser signals…
NASA to demonstrate autonomous navigation system on moon When the second CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) delivery is launched to…
Newly discovered carbon monoxide-runaway gap can help identify habitable exoplanets The search for habitable exoplanets involves looking for planets with…
White Holes: Tunnels in the Sky? It’s good now and then to let the imagination soar. Don Wilkins has been…
Asteroid that impacted near Berlin identified as a rare aubrite An official classification now aligns with what many suspected from…
Asteroid making its closest approach to Earth this week On 4 February, asteroid 2011 MD will make its closest approach…
Orbital resonance: The striking gravitational dance done by planets with aligning orbits Planets orbit their parent stars while separated by…
Ice and fire: Antarctic volcano may hold clues to life on Mars On Deception Island in Antarctica, steam rises from…
Go fetch! A rover collects samples, future Mars Sample Return missions will retrieve them, and perhaps a robotic dog will…
The right to bathe Water is a great healer. Can New York’s public pools and ‘blue spaces’ be engineered for…
Shake, rattle and launch: Dream Chaser spaceplane passes vibration test Sierra Space’s shuttle-like Dream Chaser has been put through its…
Shake, rattle and launch: Dream Chaser spaceplane passes vibration test Sierra Space’s shuttle-like Dream Chaser has been put through its…
First eROSITA sky-survey data release makes public the largest ever catalog of high-energy cosmic sources The German eROSITA consortium has…
Earth’s atmospheric glow can be seen from the International Space Station This high exposure photograph revealed Earth’s atmospheric glow against…
Open Cluster SETI Globular clusters, those vast ‘cities of stars’ that orbit our galaxy, get a certain amount of traction…
The Jovian vortex hunt is over for now The Jovian Vortex Hunter project, launched on Zooniverse in June 2022, is…
Economic benefits from space mining A fictional depiction of an ore ship servicing mining operations on an asteroid. Credits: DALL∙E…
‘Old smokers’: Strange new type of star discovered in Milky Way Nearing the end of their life, they sit quietly…
NASA collaborating on European-led gravitational wave observatory in space The first space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves has passed…
Astronomers analyze masses, orbital properties and atmospheric features of six exoplanets A recently discovered solar system with six confirmed exoplanets…
Colorful faults and false colors We might not know what color the planets really are, but we know a whole…
On knowing who he was Alan Watts, for all his faults, was a wildly imaginative and provocative thinker who reimagined…
‘Old smokers’ and ‘squalling newborns’ among hidden stars spotted for first time ‘Hidden’ stars including a new type of elderly…
After three years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission ends NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at…
Microwave detectors and multiplexing: Researchers help astronomers examine the early universe Perched atop a high plateau in Chile’s Atacama Desert,…
Alien Life or Chemistry? A New Approach Working in the field has its limitations, as Alex Tolley reminds us in…
Now we know why Starship’s second flight test failed SpaceX is often in the headlines; unfortunately, it is not always…
New US Postal Service stamps feature iconic NASA Webb images The U.S. Postal Service has issued two new Priority Mail…
James Webb Space Telescope: Finally, the edge of the universe and beyond Launched in 2021 on Christmas Day, the James…
US space company upbeat on next Moon mission despite lander’s demise The head of the American space company whose lunar…
Image: Hubble views a galactic supernova site This image features a relatively small galaxy known as UGC 5189A, which is…
Twice as nice Sometimes the Solar System offers up a planetary pair for our viewing enjoyment. Japan has a pair…
Artists of our own lives The genome is the starting point for a performance we enact over a lifetime, not…
Image: An aurora in another light The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite sensor on the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured…
To the Moon and back: modern lunar exploration Japan, whose unmanned “sniper” probe will attempt a lunar landing on Saturday,…
Webb data suggest many early galaxies were long and thin, not disk-like or spherical Columbia researchers analyzing images from NASA’s…
Samples from Wild 2 comet reveal a surprising past Eighteen years after NASA’s Stardust mission returned to Earth with the…
Reaching Proxima b: The Beauty of the Swarm NIAC’s award of a Phase I grant to study a ‘swarm’ mission…
Big planets don’t necessarily mean big moons Does the size of an exomoon help determine if life could form on…
Doomed US lunar lander now headed for Earth: company A private US lunar lander that has been leaking fuel throughout…
Neumann Drive successfully tested in space Company images of a Neumann Drive at upper left with it’s plasma discharge produced…
Doomed US lunar lander’s space odyssey continues… for now Is it the little spaceship that could? Go to Source Author:…
Planetesimals are buffeted by wind in their nebula, throwing debris into space: Study Before planets form around a young star,…
Destination: Moon Getting to the Moon — or any moon — isn’t easy, but it’s worth it. That’s why we…
How to hate The manifesto was always a hotheaded call to arms. Then it got a slick, digital makeover in…
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detects surprise gamma-ray feature beyond our galaxy Astronomers analyzing 13 years of data from NASA’s Fermi…
Researchers release open-source space debris model MIT’s Astrodynamics, Space Robotics, and Controls Laboratory (ARCLab) announced the public beta release of…
Old stars may be the best places to search for life Once upon a cosmic time, scientists assumed that stars…
Galactic ‘Nature Preserves’ over Deep Time Speculating about the diffusion of intelligent species through the galaxy, as we’ve been doing…
Centaurs gain comet-like characteristics through close encounters with Jupiter, Saturn A rapid reshaping of orbits resulting from a close encounter…
A colossal star erupts: Examining one of the largest stars in the Milky Way as it fades from view Astronomers…
India’s Sun probe reaches solar orbit India’s solar observation mission on Saturday entered the Sun’s orbit after a four-month journey,…
The most massive neutron stars probably have cores of quark matter Atoms are made of three things: protons, neutrons, and…
Rocket carrying American lunar lander rolls to launchpad Final preparations were underway Friday for the launch of the first American…
Visions of Venus See our neighboring planet in radar and in artwork, and catch up on the week’s space news….
The missing conversation To the detriment of the public, scientists and historians don’t engage with one another. They must begin…
New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like Neptune is fondly known for being a rich blue, and…
Two companies will attempt the first US moon landings since the Apollo missions a half-century ago China and India scored…
SpaceX back with 1st Space Coast launch of the year After a record 2023, SpaceX is not slowing down its…
Life Elsewhere? Relaxing the Copernican Principle Most people I know are enthusiastic about the idea that other intelligent races exist…
Astrophysicists explore links between atmospheric oxygen and detecting extraterrestrial technology on distant planets In the quest to understand the potential…
JWST sets a new record, sees newly forming stars in the Triangulum galaxy Our Milky Way bristles with giant molecular…
Motion extraction See the hidden movement in the natural world, thanks to ‘motion extraction’, a filmmaker’s innovative digital effect –…
First pulsar detected in globular cluster GLIMPSE-C01 Using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have discovered a…
Want to get into stargazing? A professional astronomer explains where to start There are few things more peaceful and relaxing…
A new way to characterize habitable planets For decades, science fiction authors have imagined scenarios in which life thrives on…
Happy Perihelion! There’s lots to celebrate this week, from the New Year to perihelion and everything we’ve accomplished together during…
Greater Earth (GE⊕) Lunar Power Station Conceptual illustration showing the first iteration of the proposed design of a GE⊕ Lunar…
Indian astronomers explore open cluster NGC 6940 with AstroSat Using the AstroSat spacecraft, astronomers from the Birla Institute of Technology…
Studying combustion and fire safety Research on the International Space Station is helping scientists to understand how fire spreads and…
Using smart materials to deploy a Dark Age explorer One of the most significant constraints on the size of objects…
Lost in space? Just use relativity One of the hardest things for many people to conceptualize when talking about how…
