Theoretical model suggests saltiness of Enceladus’s oceans may be right to sustain life A team of researchers at MIT has…
China launches one of 2 lab modules to join space station China on Sunday launched one of two laboratory modules…
Rocket launches can create night-shining clouds away from the poles, NASA’s AIM mission reveals Near Earth’s north and south poles,…
EarthCARE satellite’s solar wing expanded for testing ESA’s upcoming EarthCARE satellite mission has just taken a big stretch. Engineers have…
String theory: NASA Mars rover discovers mystery object Is it tumbleweed? A piece of fishing line? Spaghetti? Go to Source…
Gemini South telescope’s GHOST spectrograph captures first light observations of a bright, chemically rich star Gemini South, one of the…
New collaborative X-ray observatory stands tall as testing begins The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission will greatly expand our knowledge…
Space data tracks record-breaking UK heatwave Earth Observation (EO) experts based at the University of Leicester have laid bare the…
First image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals thousands of galaxies in stunning detail Billions of years ago, long…
Scientists find oldest Martian meteorite’s original home Scientists announced Tuesday they had found the crater from which the oldest known…
A little piece of Washington state blasted into space this week A tiny piece of rural Washington state—and some of…
Scientist reviews the key technologies for space-based situational awareness Since the launch of the first man-made earth satellite, the number…
K2, the brightest comet in our solar system, will swing by Earth this week: Here’s when to see it Grab…
Baby stars, dancing galaxies: NASA shows new cosmic views A sparkling landscape of baby stars. A foamy blue and orange…
Webb telescope to reveal earliest galaxies after Big Bang NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is poised to reveal some of…
Statistical analysis of radio-flaring brown dwarf population Brown dwarfs are known as “failed stars,” owing to the lack of central…
NASA shares list of cosmic targets for Webb telescope’s first images NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA…
NASA reveals Webb telescope’s first cosmic targets NASA said Friday the first cosmic images from the James Webb Space Telescope…
Citizen scientist leads discovery of 34 ultracool dwarf binaries using data archive A citizen scientist has searched NSF’s NOIRLab’s catalog…
Why does inside of solar system not spin faster? Old mystery has possible new solution The motion of a tiny…
NASA: Contact lost with spacecraft on way to test moon orbit NASA said Tuesday it has lost contact with a…
NASA says its plan to bring Mars samples back to Earth is safe, but some people are worried Since September,…
Triply eclipsing stellar systems Stars with the mass of the sun or larger are typically accompanied by one or more…
Virgin Orbit rocket launches 7 US defense satellites A Virgin Orbit rocket carrying seven U.S. Defense Department satellites was launched…
The case is building that colliding neutron stars create magnetars Magnetars are some of the most fascinating astronomical objects. One…
Capturing the onset of galaxy rotation in the early universe As telescopes have become more advanced and powerful, astronomers have…
Webb telescope: NASA to reveal deepest image ever taken of universe NASA administrator Bill Nelson said Wednesday the agency will…
Help NASA scientists find clouds on Mars NASA scientists hope to solve a fundamental mystery about Mars’ atmosphere, and you…
Curiosity rover takes inventory of key life ingredient on Mars Scientists using data from NASA’s Curiosity rover have measured the…
Image: Hubble captures a galactic menagerie The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this massive galaxy cluster, called Abell 1351, with…
Multiple lab analyses of Antarctic minerals offer a better understanding of Mars Results of multiple and complementary lab analyses of…
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spots rocket impact site on moon Astronomers discovered a rocket body heading toward a lunar collision…
Arecibo observatory scientists help unravel surprise asteroid mystery When asteroid 2019 OK suddenly appeared barreling toward Earth on July 25,…
NASA’s Webb to uncover riches of the early universe For decades, telescopes have helped us capture light from galaxies that…
NASA sounding rocket mission seeks source of X-rays emanating from inner galaxy To human eyes, the night sky between the…
Astronomers link 64 telescopes to observe the structure of the universe An international team of astronomers have for the first…
Formation and evolution of massive binaries may share the same mechanism in Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies A research team…
4 buildings at observatory in Arizona lost in wildfire Four non-scientific buildings at the Kitt Peak National Observatory southwest of…
New proton capture reaction rate of copper-57 changes nucleosynthesis paths in Type-I X-ray burst An international research team has recently developed…
The coronal veil: Are the sun’s magnetic arches an optical illusion? From afar, the Sun appears blank and featureless in…
Giant ‘Sky Eye’ telescope may have picked up alien signals, Chinese researchers say Chinese researchers have found a signal that…
Evidence that early galaxies may be bigger and more complex than previously thought Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…
A wandering star disrupts the stellar nursery From a zoomed out, distant view, star-forming cloud L483 appears normal. But when…
Asteroid samples contain ‘clues to origin of life’: Japan scientists Asteroid dust collected by a Japanese space probe contains organic…
Women in simulated space missions demonstrate more sustainable leadership A new study based on Mars Desert Research Station commanders’ reports…
Newly discovered Fast Radio Burst 190520 prompts more questions due to strange behavior Newly discovered fast radio burst (FRB) 190520…
NASA to launch six small satellites to monitor and study tropical cyclones NASA is launching the first two of six…
NASA’s Webb telescope: Engineered to endure micrometeoroid impacts Micrometeoroid strikes are an unavoidable aspect of operating any spacecraft, which routinely…
NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission completes main body of the spacecraft The main body of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has been…
Researchers tapped again for NASA moon mission, set to explore mysterious domes A team of researchers from the University of…
Three Chinese astronauts arrive at space station Three Chinese astronauts arrived at the country’s space station on Sunday, the Chinese…
Bezos’s Blue Origin makes 5th crewed flight into space Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin flew six tourists into space for…
Putting the theory of special relativity into practice, by counting galaxies Scientists who study the cosmos have a favorite philosophy…
NASA selects new instruments for priority Artemis science on moon Adding to the growing list of commercial deliveries slated to…
NASA awards two contracts for next generation spacesuits NASA on Wednesday announced it has awarded contracts to two companies to…
Planetary defense exercise uses asteroid Apophis as hazardous asteroid stand-in Watching the skies for large asteroids that could pose a…
NASA targets June 5 for redo of Artemis moon rocket dress rehearsal NASA discovered a bevy of headaches in its…
Our Mars rover mission was suspended because of the Ukraine war. What we’re hoping for next Just a few months…
Solar wind a major driver of atmospheric sodium at Mercury No object in the solar system experiences the sun’s solar…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captures video of record flight Imagery has come down from Mars capturing a recent flight in…
Researcher describes how extraterrestrial civilizations could colonize the galaxy even if they don’t have starships Astronomers have searched for extraterrestrial…
On Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover’s playlist is like no other Since NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars, its two microphones…
AI reveals unsuspected math underlying search for exoplanets Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms trained on real astronomical observations now outperform astronomers…
SPACEPERIUM Ecological Research Teams are now forming across the empire! With FREE MEMBERSHIP, anyone who desires to get involved with…
Researchers reveal hemispheric asymmetry of long-term sunspot activity Ph.D. candidate Zhang Xiaojuan and Prof. Deng Linhua from Yunnan Observatories of…
What’s Weather Prediction Worth? Weather predictions have been pushed ahead dramatically since the 1960s, when an accurate forecast maxed out…
Winds and jet streams found on the closest brown dwarf A University of Arizona-led research team has found bands and…
Study of nebula IRAS 00500+6713 suggests its central star is unlike any seen before A team of researchers from Potsdam…
NASA’s first mission to the Trojan asteroids integrates its second scientific instrument NASA’s Lucy mission is one step closer to…
Astronomers agree: Universe is nearly 14 billion years old From an observatory high above Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers have taken…
Ripples in space-time could provide clues to missing components of the universe There’s something a little off about our theory…
Chinese astronomers discover 591 high-velocity stars with LAMOST and Gaia A research team, led by astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories…
Primordial black holes and the search for dark matter from the multiverse The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics…
To help trudge through the snow, the chang’e-5 recovery team wore powered exoskeletons Other worlds aren’t the only difficult terrain…
Observations shed more light on the atmosphere of white dwarf GD 424 Astronomers have performed spectroscopic observations of a newly…
New supercluster discovered by astronomers By analyzing the data from the eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS), an international team…
Periodic and phase-locked modulation in the pulsar PSR B1929+10 investigated with FAST Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST),…
Using AI to count and map craters on the moon A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China,…
Why radio astronomers need things quiet in the middle of a Western Australia desert A remote outback station about 800km…
If a planet has a lot of methane in its atmosphere, life is the most likely cause The ultra-powerful James…
Japanese spacecraft’s gifts: Asteroid chips like charcoal They resemble small fragments of charcoal, but the soil samples collected from an…
Earthlings and astronauts chat away, via ham radio The International Space Station cost more than $100 billion. A ham radio…
A blazar in the early Universe The supersharp radio ‘vision’ of the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)…
How nearby galaxies form their stars Stars are born in dense clouds of molecular hydrogen gas that permeates interstellar space…
Recently discovered comet seen during 2020 total solar eclipse As Chile and Argentina witnessed the total solar eclipse on Dec….
NASA’s Webb sunshield successfully unfolds and tensions in final tests Lengthened to the size of a tennis court, the five-layer…
Russia lifts UK telecom satellites into orbit A Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East…
Multi-messenger astronomy offers new estimates of neutron star size and universe expansion A combination of astrophysical measurements has allowed researchers…
Unique prediction of ‘modified gravity’ challenges dark matter theory An international group of scientists, including Case Western Reserve University Astronomy…
Researchers identify where giant jets from black holes discharge their energy The supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies…
Solar eclipse plunges southern Chile, Argentina into darkness Thousands of people turned their heads to the sky to watch a…
‘Lost connection’ hampers Virgin Galactic’s test flight (Update) A Virgin Galactic test flight Saturday ended prematurely as the spacecraft’s rocket…
Chile awaits total eclipse of the sun as Covid restrictions rise Chileans will turn their eyes to the sky on…
Festive treat for stargazers as Geminid meteors peak Stargazers across the northern hemisphere could see as many as 70 meteors…
Hubble pins down weird exoplanet with far-flung orbit that behaves like the long-sought ‘Planet Nine’ A planet in an unlikely…
Neighbourhood watch: What the mission to map the Milky Way is revealing about satellite galaxies Our Milky Way is not…
Study confirms dark coating can reduce satellite reflectivity Observations conducted by the Murikabushi Telescope of Ishigakijima Astronomical Observatory confirmed that…
Asteroid Ryugu dust delivered to Earth; NASA astrobiologists prepare to probe it On Dec. 6 local time (Dec. 5 in…
Japan’s capsule with asteroid samples retrieved in Australia A Japanese capsule carrying the world’s first asteroid subsurface samples shot across…
Japan awaits capsule’s return with asteroid soil samples Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully released a small capsule on Saturday and sent…
