Saturn’s Largest Moon May Hold the Resources for a Space Colony
Artist’s rendering of Titan’s interior, with the Cassini spacecraft in orbit and Saturn in the distance. Credit: NASA…
Hubble Sees Crimson Cloud and Stars
Blue and white stars shine brilliantly against a crimson background of glowing gas in this July 3, 2026,…
Astronauts Have Taken The First Human X‑Rays in Space : ScienceAlert
For more than 65 years, humans have been soaring through space. Since the first spaceflight by cosmonaut Yuri…
SpaceX launches flight-proven rocket for 600th time, sending Starlink satellites to orbit
SpaceX reached a milestone with its latest Starlink launch, sending the satellites into orbit on its 600th flight…
NASA once reactivated Voyager 1 thrusters that had been unused for 37 years, sending commands across interstellar space to machinery built before many of the engineers operating it were born
On 28 November 2017, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent Voyager 1 a command to fire four…
Life at Davis Station: 24 minutes of sun after six weeks of darkness
For six weeks, the sun did not rise above the horizon at Australia’s southernmost Antarctic research station. The…
We tend to assume Earth is a rare cosmic fluke, but a full analysis of NASA’s Kepler data found at least 300 million rocky, habitable-zone planets around Sun-like stars in the Milky Way alone — and that is the conservative count
NASA’s Kepler mission did not detect 300 million temperate rocky planets. It observed a narrow field of stars,…
Scientists spot 4 superdense stellar corpses hiding behind their red dwarf companions
Astronomers have spotted four dead star white dwarf stars playing a game of cosmic hide-and-seek, all four of…
The 1st of 10,000 ‘missing’ black holes in the Omega Centauri star cluster has been found
The first of 10,000 missing black holes in the Omega Centauri globular cluster has been found thanks to…
After Nearly 50 Years In The Depths Of Space, Voyager 1 Still Sends Messages That Take 23 Hours To Reach Earth
It traverses the ocean of stars that lies beyond our solar system, both the oldest spacecraft still in…
1st-ever X-rays in space offer hope for possible patients headed to the moon
A miniature X-ray machine is set to transform astronauts’ health prospects following a successful test in orbit. As…
US, Russian astronauts launch into orbit for joint space mission | Space News
NASA chief Jared Isaacman made a rare visit to the Russia-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome to witness the launch. By…