US House takes first step toward creating “commercial” deep space program
A US House committee with oversight of NASA unanimously passed a “reauthorization” act for the space agency on…
Space telescopes at light speed
Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The…
It’s time to think about human reproduction in space, scientists urge
As humanity moves from brief space missions toward longer stays — driven by commercial ambitions for moon bases…
Watch dead neutron stars smash together in new NASA supercomputer simulation
A new simulation created using a NASA supercomputer has shown how things get messy for merging neutron stars…
NASA satellite watches January’s polar vortex photo of the day for Feb. 4, 2026
After a major winter storm swept across the country in late January, a prolonged surge of Arctic air…
US lab uses lasers, heat to map neptunium for deep-space nuclear fuel
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are studying neptunium, a rare radioactive element. It serves as the…
Sun unleashes colossal X4.2 solar flare, knocking out radio signals across Africa and Europe (video)
The sun is certainly putting on quite the show this week. Earlier today (Feb. 4), it fired off…
Astronomers relieved as industrial plant threatening Earth’s darkest sky gets cancelled
A plan to build a light-polluting green hydrogen plant near one of the world’s most important astronomical observatories…
Asteroid Nuking Could Save Earth and It’s No Longer Just Sci-Fi!
In the ever-growing concern about asteroid collisions with Earth, a new study published in Nature Communications offers a…
Jaw-dropping raw footage shows spacecraft ripping through the atmosphere as it reenters Earth at Mach 25
Space exploration continues to quite literally hit new highs, and this footage shows a spacecraft zooming back down…
Mars Just Got a Whole Lot More Habitable, Thanks to These Weird Earth Creatures!
Life from Earth surviving the harsh conditions of Mars? New research suggests it’s possible, but only if you’re…
James Webb Space Telescope finds most distant galaxy ever detected: 'It looks nothing like what we predicted' – Space
James Webb Space Telescope finds most distant galaxy ever detected: ‘It looks nothing like what we predicted’ SpaceNASA Webb…