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…
An interplanetary team effort Although spacecraft may be isolated in space, they’re far from alone. Go to Source Author: The…
Guarding the guardians Good institutions are social technologies that scale trust from personal relations to entire nations. How do they…
UK space firm Skyrora explores buying assets of struggling rival Orbex British company Skyrora, which designs and builds rockets to…
UK space firm Skyrora explores buying assets of struggling rival Orbex British company Skyrora, which designs and builds rockets to…
Vaisala to upgrade runway visual range systems at seven Greek airports Vaisala will supply Runway Visual Range systems to seven…
Unseen planet or brown dwarf may have hidden ‘rare’ fading star One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed…
A Relativistic Explanation for the Dearth of Circumbinary Planets Planets orbiting two stars have been found, but not all that…
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…
Setting our sights The future of space exploration is right around the corner. Go to Source Author: The latest stories…
How selfish are we? An age-old debate about human nature is being energised with new findings on the tightrope of…
NASA Langley makes final preparations for Artemis II mission to launch around the moon When Apollo 17 astronauts returned from…
NASA Langley makes final preparations for Artemis II mission to launch around the moon When Apollo 17 astronauts returned from…
Shelter from the Storm The approaching storm will almost certainly cause power outages that will make it impossible to post…
flydubai, AWS announce cloud and AI collaboration flydubai and AWS have announced a collaboration that will see the Dubai-based airline…
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 is funded. Now what? With the upheaval of 2025 behind us, here’s what we’re looking for in space policy…
NASA researchers probe tangled magnetospheres of merging neutron stars New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with…
Burning satellites in the stratosphere: Emerging questions for climate The sky is getting crowded. In the last few years, the…
Inside, the valley sings Where does the mind go in solitary confinement? An evocative animation exploring three individual experiences –…
DevvStream and partners plan integrated platform to grow US SAF supply DevvStream, Southern Energy Renewables (Southern), and XCF Global have…
New fear unlocked: Runaway black holes Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our solar system…
Holography: Shaping a Diffractive Sail One result of the Breakthrough Starshot effort has been an intense examination of sail stability…
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…
Comebacks, curveballs, and countdowns Artemis II rolls out to the launchpad, two troubled space missions return safely to Earth, and…
From lunar nights to Martian dust storms: Why batteries struggle in space Space agencies are no longer talking about visiting…
Computers can’t surprise As AI’s endless clichés continue to encroach on human art, the true uniqueness of our creativity is…
NASA head Isaacman tempers Artemis praise with ideas on the program’s future Even as NASA celebrated the rollout of the…
NASA head Isaacman tempers Artemis praise with ideas on the program’s future Even as NASA celebrated the rollout of the…
The 2025 Airport Technology Excellence Awards Winners Announced! The Airport Technology Excellence Awards 2025 Winners have been announced! Download our full 50+…
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…
Cellular Cosmic Isolation: When the Universe Seeds Life but Civilizations Stay Silent So many answers to the Fermi question have…
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…
A new hope With NASA’s budget saved, there’s a lot to be hopeful about. Go to Source Author: The latest…
Astronomer uses ‘China Sky Eye’ to reveal binary origin of fast radio bursts An international team of astronomers, including researchers…
The shape of time In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for…
Hidden magma oceans could shield rocky exoplanets from harmful radiation Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths,…
SpaceX launch sets record turnaround from Cape Canaveral pad SpaceX is starting to get the ball rolling on its Florida…
AAR to acquire Aircraft Reconfig Technologies AAR has reached a definitive agreement to purchase Aircraft Reconfig Technologies from ZIM Aircraft…
From a new flagship space telescope to lunar exploration, global cooperation will make 2026 an exciting year for space In…
Pandora: Exoplanets at Multiple Wavelengths Sometimes we forget how overloaded our observatories are, both in space and on the ground….
A vision for industry on the Moon Credits: Michael Nayak / Air University Press Air University Press, the academic publisher…
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…
On cloud nine This week: a new celestial object and some hopeful news for NASA. Go to Source Author: The…
Red tape on a blue planet All our laws and rules to protect coral reefs now stand in the way…
The electrifying science behind Martian dust Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its…
NASA cancels spacewalk due to medical issue and may bring the crew back early NASA canceled its first spacewalk of…
Thales to upgrade Panama AAC air traffic control centre Thales is set to upgrade Panama’s Civil Aviation Authority (AAC) air…
Solar physicists discover long-hidden source of gamma rays unleashed by flares Solar physicists say they have found a key source…
Explaining Cloud-9: A Celestial Object Like No Other Some three years ago, the Five-Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in…
New census of sun’s neighbors reveals best potential real estate for life A new study led by a Georgia State…
Thin ice may have protected lake water on frozen Mars Small lakes on ancient Mars may have remained liquid for…
Children’s game: pau de sebo In a town park in Portugal, prizes dangle just out of reach up a greasy…
The interstellar comet that’s spilling its secrets When 3I/ATLAS swept past the sun in late October 2025, it became only…
Galactic globular cluster loses stars through tidal stripping, observations reveal Using the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), astronomers have observed a nearby…
Astronomers measure both mass and distance of a rogue planet for the first time While most planets that we are…
A new year around the Sun Looking forward to the space missions, celestial events, and discoveries of 2026. Go to…
Study unveils the dual nature of a young stellar object Astronomers from the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES)…
A ‘Tatooine’ Planet Directly Imaged I jump at the chance to see actual images – as opposed to light curves…
US issues first national strategy for advanced air mobility sector The US DOT has launched the National Advanced Air Mobility…
Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star Using the Einstein Probe (EP), astronomers have detected a new X-ray…
Wind-battered Lick Observatory rushes to shield historic telescope after dome damage Winds exceeding 110 mph that tore across the top…
NASA’s Chandra rings in the new year with the Champagne Cluster Celebrate the New Year with the “Champagne Cluster,” a…
Venus cloud research highlights value of combining light and polarization measurements A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical…
ALMA datasets elucidate nearby galaxy NGC 1266’s massive molecular outflow By analyzing the archival data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…
Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from…
Gemini and Blanco telescopes unlock clues to origin of longest gamma-ray burst ever observed Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the…
Ending 2025 with a bang We’re finishing the year strong, thanks to amazing space images, fantastic discoveries, and phenomenal support…
Supernova from the dawn of the universe captured by James Webb Space Telescope An international team of astronomers has achieved…
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is an attractive target in the search for life—new research A small, icy moon of Saturn…
India space agency launches its heaviest satellite India’s space agency launched its heaviest ever payload on Wednesday, with Prime Minister…
