Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is unlikely to hit Earth in 2032 and how scientists keep track The threat of a…
Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is unlikely to hit Earth in 2032 and how scientists keep track The threat of a…
NASA telescopes deliver stellar bouquet in time for Valentine’s day A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived….
NASA’s mini rover team is packed for lunar journey Three small NASA rovers that will explore the lunar surface as…
SkyDrive’s eVTOL receives JCAB G-1 certification SkyDrive has received a G-1 certification basis for its electric vertical take-off and landing…
Pondering Life in an Alien Ocean No one ever said Europa Clipper would be able to detect life beneath the…
Massive stellar feedback influences star formation, finds study of W4 super-large HII region A new study has unveiled new insights…
Robot grippers could be used to remove space debris Blue tentacle-like arms attached to an Astrobee free-flying robot grab onto…
Researchers confirm an exoplanet potentially capable of sustaining life An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting…
There could be a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud hurling stars at the Milky Way Hypervelocity stars…
Kiss kiss kaboom! Some impacts are violent and powerful. Others are more like a kiss. Go to Source Author: The…
Roving the red planet: New paper documents first Mars mission soil samples A new paper released today documents the first…
Guardians of the gibbons Humans are both the gravest threat and the greatest hope for the survival of the rare…
Solar cycle study reveals trends in charged particle numbers and interactions A large team of researchers working on the Alpha…
Vertical Aerospace VX4 prototype enters wingborne flight testing Vertical Aerospace has successfully completed the second stage of piloted thrustborne testing…
A wedding necklace and Polish dumplings will be part of a mission to the International Space Station What do a…
Quantifying the Chances of a Technosignature It’s one thing to talk about technology as we humans know it, but applying…
En route to Jupiter, Europa Clipper captures images of stars Three months after its launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…
Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely We live in a golden age…
New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early solar system In October 2020, a van-sized…
Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world Asteroid samples fetched…
Timeless collections From galaxies to stamps to asteroid samples, some collections never go out of style. Go to Source Author:…
Surprising signatures in WASP-121b’s dynamic atmosphere challenge understanding of how ‘roasting marshmallows’ form Nearly one third of known exoplanets are…
Hearts and brains Humans always end up with clogged arteries, right? That’s not what the lives of the Tsimane in…
From Earth to space: Testing tech in lava tubes for future space exploration What does an ancient lava tube in…
From Earth to space: Testing tech in lava tubes for future space exploration What does an ancient lava tube in…
How well could Earth life survive on exoplanets? Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava…
47G, BETA partner to launch electric aircraft in Utah, US 47G has entered into an agreement with BETA Technologies to…
Moon is not as ‘geologically dead’ as previously thought, new study reveals Scientists have studied the moon’s surface for decades…
A potpourri of artificial gravity topics Conceptual illustration of three stages in the construction of an Artificial Gravity Orbital Station…
Advanced radio telescope technology ‘sifts’ space for mysteries The first trial of an Australian-developed technology has detected mysterious objects by…
Centauri Dreams to Resume Soon I’d like to thank all of you who wrote comments and emails about the recent…
Space researchers build traffic light system to warn of dangerous solar storms Researchers have created an improved traffic light system…
A recent fast radio burst calls into question what astronomers believed they knew Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer…
A private US spacecraft headed to the moon captures a glorious view of Earth A private U.S. spacecraft bound for…
Membership Forms Membership at The Planetary Society. Go to Source Author: The latest stories from The Planetary Society, featuring humanity’s…
Chemical laws Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe…
NASA JPL prepping for full year of launches, mission milestones With 2024 receding into the distance, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory…
NASA JPL prepping for full year of launches, mission milestones With 2024 receding into the distance, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory…
PUNCH spacecraft make final pit stop before launch Four small suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest Research Institute, have…
Boeing, Norsk e-Fuel collaborate to boost SAF production Boeing has partnered with Norsk e-Fuel for the development of “one of…
A tether covered in solar panels could boost the ISS’s orbit The ISS’s orbit is slowly decaying. While it might…
NASA Kennedy ground systems prepping hardware for Artemis II and beyond Teams with NASA are gaining momentum as work progresses…
Watch doorbell camera capture rare meteorite strike in Canada A doorbell camera on a Canadian home captured rare video and…
Why is one half of Mars so different to the other? ‘Marsquakes’ may have just revealed the answer Mars is…
A seed-sized signal amplifier chip could boost space communications Smaller than a strawberry seed, this tiny signal amplifier was produced…
Teamwork makes the dream work From internationally collaborative missions to crowdfunding for space tech, when we work together we can…
The penumbral plunge Diving into the ring of darkness beyond things easily answerable, asking ‘Why?’ questions is what make humans…
Bezos’ Blue Origin has successfully launched its New Glenn rocket to orbit, a feat 15 years in the making Just…
A Necessary Break It’s time to write a post I’ve been dreading to write for several years now. Some of…
Musk’s Starship set for launch after Bezos orbital triumph The rivalry between the world’s two richest men is going cosmic….
The first supernovae flooded the early universe with water, research suggests Water is the essence of life. Every living thing…
Recalibrating ‘Hot Jupiter’ Migration What catches your eye in this description of an exoplanetary system? Start with a ‘hot Jupiter,’…
Schiphol’s flight path to a circular future Schiphol Airport’s 25-year vision, fuelled by a €6bn investment plan, aims to hit its…
Image: Earth in far-ultraviolet On April 21, 1972, NASA astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 mission, took…
Neutron star ‘mountains’ would cause ripples in space-time Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser…
Five things to know about New Glenn, Blue Origin’s new rocket Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire…
Blue Origin set for first launch of giant New Glenn rocket A quarter of a century after its founding, Jeff…
‘What is that?’ Scientists explain white patch that appears near northern lights A whitish, gray patch that sometimes appears in…
Up close and personal The Parker Solar Probe comes closer to the Sun than ever before, and two icy bodies…
There are no pure cultures All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and…
Space Launch System could launch a Titan balloon mission Few places in the solar system are better suited to a…
Space Launch System could launch a Titan balloon mission Few places in the solar system are better suited to a…
NASA to test solution for radiation-tolerant computing in space Onboard computers are critical to space exploration, aiding nearly every spacecraft…
Evolution Measurement launches new pressure scanner for flight tests Evolution Measurement has introduced the EvoScann P10-D pressure scanner, a device…
Will Comet G3 ATLAS perform at perihelion? What “may” be the best anticipated comet of 2025 is coming right up….
A Manhole Cover Beyond the Solar System? Let’s start the year with a look back in time to 1957, a…
Relativistic electron beam could propel probe to Alpha Centauri, study suggests Getting a spacecraft to another star is a monumental…
Laboratories of the impossible By testing the boundaries of reality, Spanish-language authors have created a sublime counterpart to experimental physics…
Bezos’s Blue Origin poised for first orbital launch next week Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin is poised to…
Carbon in our bodies likely left galaxy and came back on cosmic ‘conveyer belt’ Life on Earth could not exist…
Calendar of space events 2025 Space missions, rocket launches, and celestial events are coming our way in 2025. Go to…
NASA’s LEXI will provide X-ray vision of Earth’s magnetosphere A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the moon as part…
Modeling an ISRU-based energy storage system for sustainable lunar electricity production Illustration of a Lunar ISRU Energy Storage and Electrical…
NASA anticipates lunar findings from next-generation retroreflector Apollo astronauts set up mirror arrays, or “retroreflectors,” on the moon to accurately…
NASA anticipates lunar findings from next-generation retroreflector Apollo astronauts set up mirror arrays, or “retroreflectors,” on the moon to accurately…
An Oddity in the Small Magellanic Cloud Let’s make a quick return to the Magellanics after our recent look at…
Vertical Aerospace secures funding to advance electric aviation strategy Technology company Vertical Aerospace has finalised an investment agreement with Mudrick…
Dark energy camera captures the glittering galaxies of the Antlia Cluster NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a…
SpaceX knocks out 1st of final 2 Space Coast launches of 2024 SpaceX knocked out a midnight launch from Cape…
India rocket launches space docking mission India launched a rocket Monday carrying two small spacecraft to test docking in space,…
Boat people The self-sacrifice of ants to save their colonies is an allegory and a euphemism in one family’s story…
Astronomers discover an ultra-massive grand-design spiral galaxy Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has…
From dead galaxies to mysterious red dots, here’s what the James Webb Telescope has found in just 3 years On…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun’s scorching surface NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the…
Image: NASA’s Terra satellite captures 2015 eclipse shadow During the morning of March 20, 2015, a total solar eclipse was…
Two populations of dark comets in the solar system could tell researchers where the Earth got its oceans The water…
Image: NASA’s Terra satellite captures 2015 eclipse shadow During the morning of March 20, 2015, a total solar eclipse was…
Chief Financial Officer The Planetary Society is seeking a Chief Financial Officer to lead all financial and human resource functions…
NASA probe makes closest ever pass by the Sun NASA’s pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history Tuesday, flying closer to…
Holiday Reprise: Voyager to a Star As I write, Voyager 1 is almost 166 AU from the Sun, moving at…
New commercial Artemis moon rovers undergo testing at NASA Through NASA’s Artemis campaign, astronauts will land on the lunar surface…
