NASA’s Artemis 3 rocket is taking shape for 2027 launch to test lunar landers (photo)
It’s only been a month since NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean to wrap…
How NASA lunar scientists taught Artemis 2 astronauts to see the moon with different eyes
Not everyone looks at the moon and sees the same thing. That’s especially true for the four astronauts…
Satellites spy one of Russia’s most active volcanoes melting snow from the inside out
A growing lava dome and dark flow channels are visible inside Shivelyuch volcano’s caldera in this detailed Landsat…
A Gigantic Atmospheric Anomaly Keeps Showing Up on Venus. Astronomers Finally Know Why
In 2016, a Japanese Venus orbiter repeatedly spotted colossal waves of acidic clouds sweeping the planet’s atmosphere. For…
They really launched this tiny spacecraft (Well, sort of.) photo of the day for May 11, 2026
A tiny robot figurine takes a look at a miniature ExoMars capsule. (Image credit: ESA – A. Conigli)…
Astronomers Discovered a Brand-New Type of Planet That Reeks of Rotten Eggs and Defies Planetary Science
Astronomers have discovered a brand-new class of exoplanet unlike anything previously known. This discovery, featured in Nature, uncovers…
Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center
This VISTA VVV Survey image shows the galactic bulge near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the…
Sun unleashes colossal solar flare and coronal mass ejection, raising the chances of northern lights this week
CME eruption in upper left corner. The bright speck of light to the right is Mercury. (Image credit:…
New Model Finds the Lower Size Limit for Habitable Exoplanets
The search for Earth 2.0 has begun in earnest. But there’s a huge variety of exoplanets out there,…
Grapefruit-Sized Quantum Sensor Mapped Earth’s Magnetic Field From Space
Insider Brief A student-built quantum sensor using nitrogen-vacancy diamonds successfully measured Earth’s magnetic field aboard the International Space…
An eclipse had just finished dazzling thousands at Exmouth when the phone at a remote WA roadhouse started ringing off the hook
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A brief history of the cosmic distance record
In 1675, Newton famously wrote , “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders…