APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
Explanation: The Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars toward the small constellation…
Staying strong in orbit with ARED
Exercise is one of the most important countermeasures against the effects of spaceflight. Without Earth’s constant gravitational pull,…
A Martian day runs 39 minutes and 35 seconds longer than an Earth day, so rover teams at JPL live on Mars time for the length of a mission, sliding their whole schedule later each day until they are eating breakfast at midnight, and their families describe it as jet lag with no destination
At first, the change is almost trivial. A rover engineer who begins work at 8 a.m. today begins…
APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad Discover the cosmos! Each day a different…
It Took a Century, but Astronomers Imaged Betelgeuse’s Companion
Most of us are familiar with Betelgeuse (also known as alpha Orionis), the bright shoulder star in the…
Strange gamma rays could reveal how stars forge heavy elements
Researchers led by scientists at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, have identified the source of…
Rocket Lab wins another launch contract from Japan’s iQPS
WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab has won another contract from Japanese radar imaging company iQPS for multiple launches of…
Olympus Mons stands nearly three times the height of Everest, yet standing at its base you would not see a mountain at all, because its slopes rise so gently across roughly 600 kilometres that the summit sits well beyond the Martian horizon and the ground at your feet looks almost flat
If you approached Olympus Mons from the Martian plains, the first thing you met might not be a…
When Is The Next Full Moon? North America To See A 96% ‘Blood Moon’
Topline Did you see the full Buck Moon rise on July 29? The next full moon is the…
K2 Space Eyes 100 kW-Class Spacecraft After Funding Boost
K2 Space Eyes 100 kW-Class Spacecraft After Funding Boost | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Robert…
Wandering black hole spotted shredding a star
NASA says its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has spotted a supermassive black hole shredding a star. As in…
Starburst Galaxy Centaurus A – NASA
In this July 6, 2026, image, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nearby galaxy…