US successfully launches unmanned reusable drone for space experiments The US Air Force on Sunday successfully launched its high-tech drone…
ExoMars rover upgrades and parachute tests The second ExoMars mission, scheduled for launch to the Red Planet in 2022, is…
Black holes and neutron stars merge unseen in dense star clusters Mergers between black holes and neutron stars in dense…
First look: NASA’s James Webb space telescope fully stowed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully folded and stowed…
The discovery of Comet SWAN by solar-watcher SOHO Currently crossing the skies above Earth, Comet C/2020 F8 (SWAN) has the…
Powerful new AI technique detects and classifies galaxies in astronomy image data Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a…
Scientists model Mars climate to understand habitability A Southwest Research Institute scientist modeled the atmosphere of Mars to help determine…
Russian rocket breaks up in Earth orbit: space agency Russia’s space agency on Sunday confirmed one of its rockets used…
JPSS-2 satellite instrument passes readiness test The Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) instrument built to fly on the Joint Polar Satellite…
Space agency: Human urine could help make concrete on moon The European Space Agency said Friday that human urine could…
NASA CubeSat mission to gather vital space weather data NASA has selected a new pathfinding CubeSat mission to gather data…
Pentagon announces new mission for secretive space drone The US Air Force said Wednesday it would be sending its high-tech…
Astronomers find Jupiter-like cloud bands on closest brown dwarf A team of astronomers has discovered that the closest known brown…
NASA’s Perseverance rover will look at Mars through these eyes When it launches this summer, NASA’s Perseverance rover will have…
NASA begs spectators for astronaut launch: Please stay home! NASA and SpaceX on Friday urged spectators to stay home for…
NASA, SpaceX target historic spaceflight despite pandemic NASA and SpaceX said Friday they were pressing ahead with plans to launch…
Virgin Galactic completes first glide flight in New Mexico Virgin Galactic’s spaceship VSS Unity landed in the New Mexico desert…
Musk, Bezos win NASA contracts for Moon lander NASA on Thursday awarded almost $1 billion in contracts to three space…
Astronomers capture rare images of planet-forming disks around stars An international team of astronomers has captured 15 images of the…
Hubble captures breakup of comet ATLAS The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the sharpest view yet of…
Swift mission tallied water from interstellar comet Borisov For the first time, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory tracked water loss…
Hubble celebrates its 30th anniversary with a tapestry of blazing starbirth The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s iconic images and scientific…
Russian cargo ship docks with space station An unmanned Russian cargo capsule docked with the International Space Station, bringing more…
An eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar discovered by FAST Using the data obtained by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST),…
Researchers use ‘hot Jupiter’ data to mine exoplanet chemistry After spotting a curious pattern in scientific papers—they described exoplanets as…
USGS releases first-ever comprehensive geologic map of the Moon Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those…
Rotating galaxies galore: New results from ALPINE reveal what appear to be spiral galaxies in the infant universe New results…
Astronomers discover planet that never was What astronomers thought was a planet beyond our solar system has now seemingly vanished…
Impacts on asteroids produce regolith, erase small craters Impact cratering both produces new regolith and causes seismic events that can…
NASA announces first SpaceX crewed flight for May 27 A SpaceX rocket will send two American astronauts to the International…
California nebula stars in final mosaic by NASA’s Spitzer Five days before NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope ended its mission on…
Researchers discover a six-planet system with near 3:2 resonance Almost visible to the naked eye in the Draco constellation, the…
Earth-size, habitable-zone planet found hidden in early NASA Kepler data A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s…
Cosmic tempest: Astronomers detect most energetic outflow from a distant quasar Researchers using the Gemini North telescope on Hawai’i’s Maunakea…
PUNCH mission achieves milestone On April 8, 2020, the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission achieved an…
After months in space, astronauts returning to changed world Two NASA astronauts said Friday they expect it will be tough…
Russia space chief spars with Elon Musk over launch pricing The head of Russia’s space agency on Saturday accused Elon…
Mars helicopter attached to NASA’s Perseverance rover With the launch period of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover opening in 14…
No social distancing in space: New crew greeted with hugs Three astronauts flew to the International Space Station on Thursday,…
Black hole bends light back on itself You may have heard that nothing escapes the gravitational grasp of a black…
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in…
Catch this week’s supermoon, biggest and brightest of year A supermoon rises in the sky this week, looking to be…
COVID-19: How satellites can help The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has virtually paralyzed daily life as we know it. Even when…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover gets its wheels and air brakes Final assembly and testing of NASA’s Perseverance rover continues at…
Astronomers define the ‘really habitable zone’: Planets capable of producing gin and tonic A hospitable star that doesn’t kill you…
Image: Hypersonic surfing simulation Simulating the test flight of a hypersonic glider, being developed through the international HEXAFLY-INT collaboration, involving partners…
NASA call for astronauts draws 12,000 spaceflight hopefuls Who wants to be an astronaut? More than 12,000 people do, resulting…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope full mirror deployment a success In a recent test, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope fully…
A Martian mash up: Meteorites tell story of Mars’ water history In Jessica Barnes’ palm is an ancient, coin-sized mosaic…
New mission would provide a road map in the search for alien atmospheres A new spacecraft proposed by scientists at…
Planetary defenders validate asteroid deflection code Planetary defense researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) continue to validate their ability…
ALMA resolves gas impacted by young jets from supermassive black hole Astronomers obtained the first resolved image of disturbed gaseous…
Space Force launches its first mission with virus precautions The newly established U.S. Space Force launched its first national security…
Supernova remnant W49B investigated with XMM-Newton Chinese astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton spacecraft have investigated a luminous supernova remnant (SNR) known…
8 European spacecraft put in hibernation amid virus lockdown The European Space Agency said Tuesday that it is putting eight…
Time symmetry and the laws of physics If three or more objects move around each other, history cannot be reversed….
Solar energy tracker powers down after 17 years After nearly two decades, the Sun has set for NASA’s SOlar Radiation…
Curiosity Mars rover takes a new selfie before record climb NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recently set a record for the…
Going stir crazy? Then train like an astronaut, mimic space Isolated at home? Then train like an astronaut. Go to…
NASA’s Mars perseverance rover gets its sample handling system With the launch period for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover opening in…
SpaceX plans first manned flight to space station in May Elon Musk’s SpaceX will send astronauts to the International Space…
Waves in thin air with broad effects Mars has a very thin atmosphere, with nearly one hundredth the density of…
The mission to build a reusable launcher for Europe The race is on to develop a European reusable rocket that…
European Gateway experiment will monitor radiation in deep space The first science experiments that will be hosted on the Gateway,…
What can you do with spiral graph? Help understand how galaxies evolve Spiral structure is seen in a variety of…
Mercury’s 400 C heat may help it make its own ice It is already hard to believe that there is…
Europe-Russia delay mission to find life on Mars A joint Russian-European expedition to find life on Mars has been postponed…
Researchers find new minor planets beyond Neptune Using data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), researchers have found more than…
Study suggests Earth and Moon not identical oxygen twins Scientists at The University of New Mexico have found that the…
Discovery points to origin of mysterious ultraviolet radiation Billions of lightyears away, gigantic clouds of hydrogen gas produce a special…
First official names given to features on asteroid Bennu Asteroid Bennu’s most prominent boulder, a rock chunk jutting out 71…
Lunar lasers and cosmic crops: NASA funds UArizona space exploration missions Many things change for astronauts when they leave Earth…
Boeing hit with 61 safety fixes for astronaut capsule Boeing faces 61 safety fixes following last year’s botched test flight…
Meet Perseverance: Mars rover gets name ahead of July launch NASA’s next Mars rover finally has a name. Perseverance, a…
Curiosity Mars rover snaps its highest-resolution panorama yet NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured its highest-resolution panorama yet of the Martian…
NJIT researchers ready follow-up investigation bound for International Space Station NJIT researchers will look to continue a successful string of…
Improving shoes, showers, 3-D printing: Research launching to the space station A variety of science investigations, along with supplies and…
An iron-clad asteroid Itokawa would normally be a fairly average near-Earth asteroid—a rocky mass measuring only a few hundred metres…
Examining ice giants with NASA’s Webb telescope Far-flung Uranus and Neptune—the ice giants of our solar system—are as mysterious as…
Physicists model the supernovae that result from pulsating supergiants like Betelgeuse Betelgeuse has been the center of significant media attention…
Astronomers detect biggest explosion in the history of the Universe Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest…
Large exoplanet could have the right conditions for life Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of…
An ultraviolet instrument for ESA’s Jupiter mission An ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is…
The seismicity of Mars On 26 November 2018, the NASA InSight lander successfully set down on Mars in the Elysium…
Skeptic of world being round dies in California rocket crash A California man who said he wanted to fly to…
How better propulsion systems can improve space exploration Aero/Astro engineer Ken Hara is developing computer models to help make a…
Mars InSight lander to push on top of the ‘mole’ After nearly a year of trying to dig into the…
Beyond the brim, Sombrero Galaxy’s halo suggests turbulent past Surprising new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope suggests the smooth,…
Russia will replace 2 cosmonauts set for launch to space Russia’s space agency said Wednesday that two cosmonauts scheduled to…
SpaceX announces partnership to send four tourists into deep orbit SpaceX announced a new partnership Tuesday to send four tourists…
SpaceX re-useable rocket misses landing ship SpaceX successfully launched its latest cluster of high-speed internet satellites into orbit Monday but…
Candy, cheese soar to space station to satisfy crew cravings A cargo ship rocketed toward the International Space Station on…
Wind delays Northrop Grumman’s supply run to space station High wind delayed Northrop Grumman’s supply run to the International Space…
Breakthrough Listen releases 2 petabytes of data from SETI survey of Milky Way The Breakthrough Listen Initiative today released data…
NASA’s space snowman reveals secrets: few craters, no water NASA’s space snowman is revealing fresh secrets from its home far…
New models hint at longer timescale for Mars formation The early solar system was a chaotic place, with evidence indicating…
Double nuclei in the galaxy IC 676 investigated by researchers Chinese astronomers have carried out spectroscopic observations of the lenticular…
Distant giant planets form differently than ‘failed stars’ A team of astronomers led by Brendan Bowler of The University of…
Iran satellite launch fails, in blow to space programme Iran said it “successfully” launched a satellite Sunday but failed to…
All about the laser (and microphone) atop Mars 2020, NASA’s next rover NASA is sending a new laser-toting robot to…
