Successful launch of SMILE Satellite marks first China-Europe mission-level cooperation in probing solar wind battles
Photos: courtesy of Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of the Chinese Academy of Sciences High above our planet, a…
The James Webb Space Telescope has found galaxies that appear to have formed within 280 million years of the Big Bang, some containing heavy elements that shouldn’t have had time to form — and at least one peer-reviewed paper has now proposed that the universe might actually be 26.7 billion years old, almost twice the standard estimate
The James Webb Space Telescope wasn’t supposed to find any of this. When it launched in late 2021,…
NASA’s powerful Roman Space Telescope is about to transform astronomy
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could head into space sooner than expected, with NASA now targeting a…
WATCH: A Spacecraft Is Launching to Study How Earth Survives Solar Storms : ScienceAlert
A joint European-Chinese spacecraft is set to blast off Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and…
Asteroid 2022 OB5 Spins Too Fast For Current Prospectors Highlighting the Divide Between “Accessible” and “Exploitable”
Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out…
A setback for Musk, zooming asteroid, life at sea: Catch up on the day’s stories
👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! It’s an exciting time here at CNN, with the official launch of…
Europe tests laser links as satellite comms outgrow radio
Networks Greek mountaintop ground station aims infrared beams at CubeSats in ESA-backed optical networking trial Europe’s hunt for…
One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions
“We were a relatively loud voice on MSR, because we just saw a program and a capability that…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Could Finally Find the Milky Way’s Missing Neutron Stars
NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could uncover one of the Milky Way’s biggest hidden populations: invisible…
Scientists found stardust trapped in Antarctic ice. What could it tell us about our solar system?
Radioactive stardust remnants from stellar explosions have been found trapped in ice in Antarctica. These cosmic remains serve…
Iron and Ice: Earth’s Passage Through the Interstellar Cloud
Iron-60 is a radioactive isotope of iron that’s found in Antarctic ice and in deep-sea crusts. It’s only…
Astronomers stunned: billions of “Tatooine” planets may actually exist in space
Astronomers stunned: billions of “Tatooine” planets may actually exist in space – Futura-Sciences May 18, 2026 4 min…