NASA Delivers Braking Engines for ESA Rosalind Franklin Mars Mission
Credit: Airbus NASA has delivered the first braking engines for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosalind Franklin mission…
400 Days To The ‘Eclipse Of The Century’ — Why You Need To Make A Plan
Topline On Aug. 2, 2027, the moon’s shadow will race across parts of southern Spain, North Africa and…
Watch out for the giant scorpion hiding in the summer sky
The most beautiful of all the zodiacal constellations is now visible, low toward the south-southeast as darkness falls.…
The James Webb Space Telescope found a spiral galaxy, nicknamed the Big Wheel, that existed just two billion years after the Big Bang — five times more massive than the Milky Way, with a spiral structure our models say couldn’t have survived that early
The James Webb Space Telescope has made the early universe look less simple again. In a field originally…
Astronomers found two rare super puff planets lighter than cotton candy
Astronomers have identified two of the fluffiest giant planets ever discovered, with densities so low they are actually…
Euclid Sees Heart of Milky Way
Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with NASA contributions, took a new look at the heart of…
In 1977, Ann Druyan recorded an hour of her brainwaves and heartbeat just two days after she and Carl Sagan agreed to marry, and NASA pressed that compressed minute onto Voyager’s Golden Record as a private love letter now more than 25 billion kilometres from Earth
The Voyager Golden Record is usually described as a message from Earth to the unknown. That is true,…
The Roman Space Telescope has the same size mirror as Hubble, but it will survey the sky up to 1,000 times faster — not because it sees deeper, but because it sees wider: each Roman image captures a patch of sky at least 100 times larger, making Hubble’s method look like counting a crowd one face at a time.
The Roman Space Telescope is easy to describe badly. Say that it has the same size mirror as…
Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia)
Loading the player… Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence…
SpaceX’s next Starship breathes fire for 1st time in prelaunch test (video)
About a month has passed since the first launch of SpaceX’s “Version 3” Starship rocket, and the spaceflight…
NASA is paying $30 million for a 1st-of-its-kind rescue mission to save its aging Swift telescope from falling from space Here’s why
On paper, it seems like the math would be clear. A nearly 22-year-old space telescope, well past its…
NASA Announces Winners for 2026 Human Lander Challenge
NASA has announced the top student-developed solutions for environmental control and life support systems in future crewed lunar…