Animal, vegetable, mineral Cruel and unscientific, the ‘vegetative state’ diagnosis stems from a hierarchical and bigoted view of all living…
Making Martian regolith safe for agriculture AI generated image of crops growing in sealed enclosure within a radiation protected lava…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover gets a major software upgrade The update brings loads of improvements, the most significant being new…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover gets a major software upgrade The update brings loads of improvements, the most significant being new…
The impact of the war in Ukraine on the space industry The war in Ukraine has strained cooperation in space,…
Students set to launch self-built rocket into space The Hybrid Engine Development (HyEnD) student team at the University of Stuttgart…
Go JUICE Take a look at our missions to Jupiter in context. The image below shows the history back to…
Ariane 5 flight VA260, carrying the Juice mission, is fully integrated and ready for rollout Ariane 5 for flight VA260…
Astronomers find out what happens to rocky planets that wander too close to their stars The massive Kepler survey found…
Hubble views multi-generational cluster NGC 2419 This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the globular star cluster NGC…
NIMS develops Interactive Standards Viewer for training programs Invites subject matter experts to take survey to define industry recognized job…
Missing: Audacity NASA has been suffering for two decades from the effects of American indecision about its space program. Declining…
New Webb telescope image reveals secrets of star structure and building blocks of life To gaze at the stars is…
Save the date: One year until total solar eclipse sweeps US Dust off your eclipse glasses: It’s only a year…
A mission to pull back the shroud VERITAS would peer through Venus’ clouds to study its surface like never before,…
Solar cell manufacturing using lunar resources Conceptual rendering of a Blue Alchemist solar cell fabrication facility on the Moon. Credits:…
Laboratory solar flares reveal clues to mechanism behind bursts of high-energy particles Simulating solar flares on a scale the size…
China tests a Stirling engine in orbit The China National Space Agency (CNSA) has made considerable progress in recent years…
The art of two-way art ‘It’s like being in love with someone’: Barry Duncan, MIT’s master palindromist, spells out his…
ASAT-related space debris; a major issue on the horizon In early August, it was reported that SpaceX’s Starlink satellites had…
New interactive mosaic uses NASA imagery to show Mars in vivid detail Both scientists and the public can navigate a…
Countdown begins for the great North American solar eclipse One year from now, on Monday, 8 April 2024, the moon…
First woman, Black astronaut, Canadian to make 2024 flight around Moon NASA unveiled the crew on Monday for its first…
Building Smallsat Capabilities for Deep Space ‘LightCraft’ is the term used by Slava Turyshev’s team at JPL and elsewhere to…
BAE Systems, Heart Aerospace collaborate on electric airplane battery Lightweight battery for commercial electric airplane will enable efficient regional air…
Webb measures temperature of rocky exoplanet for first time The James Webb Space Telescope has measured the temperature of a…
Lunar landing pad trade study Artist’s impression of a lunar landing pad. Credits: SEArch+ When humanity returns to the Moon…
Orbital Rush Hour It really wasn’t that long ago when the two greatest superpowers were vying to put satellites into…
Perseverance rover collects first Mars sample of new science campaign NASA’s Perseverance rover cored and stored the first sample of…
How space storms miscue train signals In July 1982, train signals in Sweden misfired and erroneously turned red. The culprit,…
Unusual Uranus! Moist Moon! Volcanic Venus! A planet shows its pole, another shows possible volcanic activity, and the Moon keeps…
Honey, I sold the kids We have laws to protect children from factory work. Why aren’t they protected from parents…
AI algorithm unblurs the cosmos The cosmos would look a lot better if Earth’s atmosphere wasn’t photo bombing it all…
Despite teething issues, the space economy is set for an infrastructure boom by 2030 Recent events within the space industry…
Strong solar flare erupts from the sun The sun has emitted a strong solar flare that peaked at 10:33 p.m….
Strong solar flare erupts from the sun The sun has emitted a strong solar flare that peaked at 10:33 p.m….
The Emerging Sail/Cubesat Paradigm for Deep Space We need to get to the ice giants. We have limited enough experience…
Light-bending gravity reveals one of the biggest black holes ever found A team of astronomers has discovered one of the…
James Webb Space Telescope confirms giant planet atmospheres vary widely Gas giants orbiting our sun show a clear pattern; the…
Japan Airlines orders 21 Boeing 737-8 jets Single-aisle airliners to support fleet renewal while reducing fuel use, carbon emissions. Go…
New asteroid sample study offers further hints of space origin for the building blocks of life on Earth How did…
Russians, American delayed in space to return in September Two cosmonauts and an astronaut who were supposed to leave the…
Asteroids worth getting psyched about New discoveries from Ryugu, material heading our way from Bennu, and anticipation for a mission…
Are coincidences real? I am an unequivocal rationalist and yet I still want to see something strange and wonderful in…
Hubble monitors changing weather and seasons of Jupiter and Uranus Ever since its launch in 1990, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope…
Sweden’s sky lights up with northern lights research Scientists in Sweden put on a light show in the night sky…
Relativity Space to make third bid to launch 3D-printed rocket The world’s first 3D printed rocket is scheduled to make…
A New Explanation for ‘Oumuamua’s Acceleration Here’s a thought that puts a different spin on exoplanet studies. The speaker is…
NASA seeks student ideas for moon landing dust control As NASA and industry partners develop new human landing systems to…
Astronomers sound alarm about light pollution from satellites Astronomers on Monday warned that the light pollution created by the soaring…
Munitions scarcity raises questions about capacity to sustain high-intensity warfare Since the outbreak of the first high-intensity conflict on the…
Venus: Proof of active volcanoes—at last Venus is almost the same size, mass and density as Earth. So it should…
The best way to learn about Venus could be with a fleet of balloons Interest in the exploration of Venus…
Autonomous conversion of asteroids into rotating space settlements Artist impression of a rotating space settlement constructed from an asteroid. Credits:…
NASA instrument bound for Titan could reveal chemistry leading to life A new NASA mission to Saturn’s giant moon, Titan,…
Prototype telescope launched to the International Space Station A prototype telescope designed and built by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)…
Powerful solar eruption on far side of sun impacts Earth A massive eruption of solar material, known as a coronal…
Webb captures rarely seen prelude to a supernova A Wolf-Rayet star is a rare prelude to the famous final act…
A decade of unveiling the hidden universe: ALMA at 10 On March 13th, 2023, astronomers around the world will mark…
Four astronauts fly SpaceX back home, end 5-month mission Four space station astronauts returned to Earth late Saturday after a…
Two exoplanets orbiting a sun-like star discovered Astronomers report the discovery of two new exoplanets orbiting a bright sun-like star…
Hubble spots irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant…
3D bioprinter to print human meniscus on the space station The knee is not only one of the largest and…
New NASA map details 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses in the US Where will you be for the 2023 and…
How does the immune system react to altered gravity? Space travel has always tested the human body by the effects…
Tracing 13 billion years of history by the light of ancient quasars Astrophysicists in Australia have shed new light on…
Radio interference from satellites is threatening astronomy—zone proposed for testing new technologies Visible light is just one part of the…
New results from NASA’s DART planetary defense mission confirm we could deflect deadly asteroids What would we do if we…
The northern lights appeared in southern England twice in one week—here’s why this could happen again soon People across the…
James Webb Telescope is getting closer to finding what ionized the universe Astronomers have determined that so-called “leaky” galaxies may…
Hansel and Gretel’s breadcrumb trick inspires robotic exploration system for caves on Mars and beyond House hunting on Mars could…
Highlighting advances in planetary science over the past 20 years As of December 2021, a total of 252 planetary probes…
Astronomers discover metal-rich galaxy in early universe Scanning the first images of a well-known early galaxy taken by NASA’s James…
SpaceX Dragon crew to blast off for ISS A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is to blast off early Monday for…
‘We just discovered the impossible’: How giant baby galaxies are shaking up our understanding of the early universe “Look at…
Hubble observes gravitational lens of a massive galaxy cluster A massive galaxy cluster in the constellation Cetus dominates the center…
Astronomers measure the heartbeat of spinning stars An international team of scientist have used the MeerKAT radio telescope to observe…
Meteorite crater discovered in French winery Countless meteorites have struck Earth in the past and shaped the history of our…
The swan song of a cloud approaching the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole Two decades of monitoring from W. M….
Newly discovered form of salty ice could exist on surface of extraterrestrial moons The red streaks crisscrossing the surface of…
NASA’s planetary radar captures detailed view of oblong asteroid On Feb. 3, an asteroid more than three times as long…
Russia ‘expected’ to launch rescue ship to ISS on Feb 24: official Russia’s space agency said Saturday it was planning…
VIIRS sensor on NOAA-21 now collecting new imagery The Visible and Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the recently launched…
Study quantifies global impact of electricity in dust storms on Mars Mars is infamous for its intense dust storms, some…
Machine learning techniques identify thousands of new cosmic objects Scientists of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India and…
Complex subsurface of Mars imaged by Chinese rover Zhurong Ground-penetrating radar from China’s Martian rover Zhurong reveals shallow impact craters…
New spacecraft can see into the permanently shadowed craters on the moon Shackleton Crater at the lunar south pole is…
Russian spacecraft leaks coolant, station crew reported safe An uncrewed Russian supply ship docked at the International Space Station has…
Small asteroid ‘serendipitously’ detected using James Webb telescope European astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected a previously…
Spotting faint dwarf galaxy Donatiello II Right in the middle of this image, nestled among a smattering of distant stars…
Juice’s odyssey of exploration: Jupiter’s icy moons A grand odyssey of exploration is about to begin. Humankind’s next bold mission…
‘Engine’ of luminous merging galaxies pinpointed for the first time Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to identify the…
Experiments to complete scientific understanding of how reduced gravity affects boiling and condensation With temperatures on the moon ranging from…
AI is helping us search for intelligent alien life—and we’ve found 8 strange new signals Some 540 million years ago,…
Jupiter’s moon count jumps to 92, most in solar system Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the…
