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With a Small Network of Satellites Around Mars, Rovers Could Navigate Autonomously

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - November 30, 2022 07:18 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Scientists Send Quantum Data Through a Simulated Wormhole

By Alan Boyle - November 30, 2022 05:47 PM UTC | Physics
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Tiny Cubesat Will Shine an Infrared 'Flashlight' Into the Moon's Shadowed Craters, Searching for Water Ice

By Nancy Atkinson - November 30, 2022 05:17 PM UTC | Missions
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It's Feeding Time For This Baby Star in Orion

By Evan Gough - November 30, 2022 05:10 PM UTC | Stars
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Mauna Loa is Erupting for the First Time in 40 Years. Here's What it Looks Like From Space.

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - November 30, 2022 04:46 PM UTC | Site News
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Should We Build a Nature Reserve on Mars?

By Evan Gough - November 30, 2022 12:53 PM UTC | Space Policy
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NASA Releases a Stunning New Supercut of the Artemis I Launch

By Nancy Atkinson - November 30, 2022 12:11 PM UTC | Missions
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Two Great Globular Clusters Seen by Hubble: Pismis 26 and Ruprecht 106

By Nancy Atkinson - November 30, 2022 10:46 AM UTC | Milky Way
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What if we're truly alone?

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - November 29, 2022 10:16 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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Astronomers Detect the Faint Glow of Stars in Between Galaxies

By Evan Gough - November 29, 2022 04:44 PM UTC | Extragalactic
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Astronomers Directly Image Debris Disk and find a Jupiter-Sized Planet Orbiting a Sunlike Star

By Matthew Williams - November 29, 2022 03:49 PM UTC | Exoplanets
The SHINE collaboration recently observed a Super-Jupiter within a young debris orbiting a nearby star. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); M. Weiss (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
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BlueWalker 3 is a Cellphone Tower in Space and One of the Brightest Objects Ever Launched. Astronomers Aren't Happy.

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - November 29, 2022 02:45 PM UTC | Site News
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Quasars Produce Giant Jets That Focus Like Lasers. Why They Focus is Still a Mystery, but it's not Coming From the Galaxy Itself

By Andy Tomaswick - November 29, 2022 02:29 PM UTC | Extragalactic
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Baby Gas Giants Cast Shadows on Their Siblings

By Evan Gough - November 29, 2022 11:08 AM UTC | Exoplanets
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The Technique for Detecting Meteors Could be Used to Find Dark Matter Particles Entering the Atmosphere

By avers - November 29, 2022 08:41 AM UTC | Physics
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The Second-Closest Supermassive Black Hole Might be in a Nearby Dwarf Galaxy

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - November 28, 2022 11:17 PM UTC | Black Holes
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Nature's Ultra-Rare Isotopes Can't Hide from this New Particle Accelerator

By Evan Gough - November 28, 2022 03:41 PM UTC | Physics
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OK, Artemis. Now You're Just Showing Off. A Stunning View of the Moon Eclipsing Earth From the Orion Spacecraft

By Nancy Atkinson - November 28, 2022 12:20 PM UTC | Missions
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Gaze Slack-jawed at the Haunting Beauty of Galaxy NGC 1566, Captured by JWST, Processed by Judy Schmidt

By Nancy Atkinson - November 28, 2022 10:52 AM UTC | Extragalactic
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What's Next for China's Lunar Exploration Plans?

By Andy Tomaswick - November 27, 2022 02:34 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Astronomers Spotted a Tiny Asteroid A Few Hours Before it Impacted the Earth, and Predicted Exactly Where and When it Would Crash

By Andy Tomaswick - November 27, 2022 02:22 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Based on the JWST Controversy, NASA is re-Evaluating the way it Names Spacecraft

By Matthew Williams - November 27, 2022 02:04 PM UTC | Space Policy
In a surprise twist, NASA has suggested it will reexamine its naming policies, due to the controversy surrounding the JWST.
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Asteroid Explodes Over Canada, Artemis I Updates, Very Large Telescope Improvements

By kuingul-gmail - November 26, 2022 04:20 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Air-Breathing ion Engines can Continuously Boost Spacecraft Anywhere There's an Atmosphere

By Andy Tomaswick - November 26, 2022 03:43 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Subaru Telescope can now Analyze 2,400 Galaxies Simultaneously

By Andy Tomaswick - November 26, 2022 01:46 PM UTC | Telescopes
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Why 'Contact' still resonates after 25 years

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - November 25, 2022 09:14 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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The First SLS Launch Caused Damage to the Launch Pad. How bad was it?

By sjohnston - November 25, 2022 08:49 PM UTC | Missions
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What Happened to those CubeSats that were Launched with Artemis I?

By Matthew Williams - November 25, 2022 07:00 PM UTC | Missions
The Artemis I mission deployed ten CubeSat's as part of its mission, but only four appear to be operational.
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If We're Going to Get Under the Ice on Europa, How Will We Send a Signal Back to the Surface?

By Evan Gough - November 25, 2022 01:00 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Mars Once had Enough Water for a Planet-Wide Ocean 300 Meters Deep

By Matthew Williams - November 25, 2022 12:32 PM UTC | Planetary Science
New research has shown that Mars may have been covered in a worldwide ocean when Earth was still covered in molten lava.
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What's the Best Mix of Oceans to Land for a Habitable Planet?

By Evan Gough - November 24, 2022 04:03 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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With JWST Fully Operational Again, we get Images Like This: Saturn's Moon Titan

By Matthew Williams - November 23, 2022 06:58 PM UTC | Planetary Science
The James Webb's mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) is back online, and took a new image of Saturn's largest moon Titan!
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A New Instrument Gives the Very Large Telescope an Even Sharper View of the Cosmos

By Nancy Atkinson - November 23, 2022 03:49 PM UTC | Telescopes
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NASA's Report Details a Dark Time in American History but Finds no Direct Evidence That Webb Fired People for Their Sexual Orientation

By Matthew Williams - November 23, 2022 02:58 PM UTC | Site News
NASA has released its James Webb History Report, which explains why they are not changing the name of their flagship observatory.
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JWST Detects Signs of Active Chemistry and Clouds in the Atmosphere of Exoplanet WASP-39 b

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - November 23, 2022 01:15 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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The Milky Way's Stellar Halo Isn't a Sphere After All

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - November 22, 2022 11:06 PM UTC | Milky Way
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Volcanoes are the worst. They've caused extinctions on Earth, and probably killed Venus

By Evan Gough - November 22, 2022 02:38 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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A Mission to Venus Could Sample its Atmosphere Directly, Searching for Life

By Andy Tomaswick - November 22, 2022 10:34 AM UTC | Astrobiology
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Hubble Sees a Dense Cloud of Gas and Dust That's About to Become a Star

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - November 21, 2022 10:07 PM UTC | Stars
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Artemis I has Completed its First Flyby of the Moon

By Nancy Atkinson - November 21, 2022 07:23 PM UTC | Missions
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Einstein's Predictions for Gravity Have Been Tested at the Largest Possible Scale

By Matthew Williams - November 21, 2022 05:43 PM UTC | Physics
A new study by an international team indicates that either Einstein was wrong, or something else has been driving cosmic expansion from the beginning.
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Scroll Through the Universe with This Cool Interactive Map

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - November 20, 2022 08:00 PM UTC | Cosmology
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Many Next-Generation Telescopes are Carried on Balloons. Here's What the Next Decade Holds in Balloon Astronomy

By avers - November 20, 2022 03:44 PM UTC | Telescopes
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Artemis 1 Launch, Secret Space Plane, JWST Protection Plan

By kuingul-gmail - November 19, 2022 05:04 PM UTC | Missions
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Perseverance has Found a Nice Patch of Sandstone on Mars

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - November 18, 2022 03:52 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Andromeda Contains the Remnants of a Recent "Feeding Event"

By Evan Gough - November 18, 2022 02:34 PM UTC | Extragalactic
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BlueWalker-3 Unfolds, Brightens One-Hundredfold

By David Dickinson - November 18, 2022 10:36 AM UTC | Site News
After months of waiting, we're getting our first good looks at a fully deployed BlueWalker-3 this coming weekend.
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There's a Cloud of Space Debris Around Earth. Here's how we Could get a Better Picture of it

By Andy Tomaswick - November 17, 2022 10:18 PM UTC | Space Policy
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JAXA's Ambitious Mission to Phobos Will Even Have European-Built Rover

By Evan Gough - November 17, 2022 04:53 PM UTC | Missions
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The Latest JWST Image Shows a Star in the Earliest Stage of Formation

By Evan Gough - November 17, 2022 01:21 PM UTC | Stars
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