How a huge fleet of 17 spacecraft discovered something surprising about solar eruptions
A misbehaving coronal mass ejection (CME) that blew out a hidden cloud of charged particles aimed at Earth…
Launching 10,000 tiny ‘femtosats’ to Saturn? NASA funds 18 futuristic spaceflight ideas
NASA is giving a financial boost to nearly 20 technology investigations to help fuel the incubation of tomorrow’s…
In 1969, an astronaut pointed Apollo 12’s camera at the sun and accidentally killed the live moon broadcast |
Imagine finally getting a colour television camera onto the Moon, knowing millions of people back on Earth were…
Apollo 15 astronauts collected tiny green glass beads from the Moon in 1971; more than 35 years later scientists found evidence of water inside, changing what we knew about the lunar interior
Representative Image (Image Credit: Canva) In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin noticed something unusual…
India’s Rocket Launches Costliest Among Major Space Powers: Cambridge Study
New Delhi: As India marks its third National Space Day, celebrating the success of Chandrayaan-3 and the country’s…
SpaceX launches 100th orbital mission of 2026 – Spaceflight Now
A Falcon 9 rocket stands poised to launch from the Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force…
Three black holes appear to be feeding inside a single galaxy seen 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, and the two nearest its centre are close enough to spiral together within roughly 700 million years — though the paper reporting them calls it evidence, not a confirmed triplet
In astronomy, a broad emission line in hydrogen with no matching broad line in the forbidden oxygen doublet…
This Star Whips Around the Milky Way’s Black Hole Faster and Closer Than Any Other Known Star
The universe is full of cool and interesting things, like black hole stars and nightmare planets that get…
Rocket Lab and MIT are preparing a privately funded probe to plunge through Venus’s clouds looking for organic chemistry linked to possible life. It will get only about five minutes to take measurements before descending into increasingly lethal conditions — and the entire mission has been estimated at under $10 million.
Rocket Lab’s planned Venus probe is built around an uncomfortable trade: the spacecraft can be small and comparatively…
White Dwarf-Red Dwarf Binaries Power Cosmic Lasers
Astronomers have been intrigued by a certain type of binary systems that pulse with long-period bursts of radio…
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs
offbeat Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost The team behind the…
JWST finds early galaxies may be 4 times more massive than thought
Astronomers have found that some of the largest galaxies in the early universe contained many more small stars…