NASA’s DART Mission Did More Than Just Nudge an Asteroid, Study Says
In September 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft rammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 15,000 miles per hour…
Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target
Between October 2022 and March 2025, we captured 22 such stellar occultations of the Didymos system. Combined with…
Here’s How To Catch It!
The Northern Lights are a mesmerizing natural phenomenon that many people dream of witnessing. Due to a high-speed…
Scientists Find Universe’s Oldest Stars and Reveal Hidden Clues About Cosmic Origins
The discovery of the universe’s oldest stars, identified within our own Milky Way galaxy, marks a significant leap…
Did Earth life actually begin on Mars? Asteroid impacts could let microbes planet-hop, study suggests
A remarkably hardy bacterium can survive pressures similar to those generated when asteroid impacts blast debris off Mars,…
Increased aurora tonight – the US States most likely to see Northern Lights displays this weekend
Northerly states in the USA are likely to have increased displays of the Northern Lights tonight, Friday March…
Japan’s 1st HTV-X cargo craft leaves the International Space Station (photo)
Japan’s new HTV-X cargo spacecraft departed the International Space Station today (March 6) after a four-month stay. The…
ESA Has Lost Contact With One of Its PROBA-3 Spacecraft
Credit: ESA / DTU Space The European Space Agency announced on 6 March that it had lost contact…
Ask Ethan: Do signals degrade as they travel through space?
Here on Earth, signal degradation is a real problem whenever we transmit information to one another. Signals like…
Work ongoing to restore contact with Proba-3’s Coronagraph
Enabling & Support 06/03/2026 608 views 12 likes An anomaly onboard the Proba-3 mission’s Coronagraph spacecraft led to…
China designates space sector an “emerging pillar industry,” sets deep space ambitions in new economic blueprint
HELSINKI — China has designated aerospace to be an “emerging pillar industry” in a draft national economic plan,…
Scientists uncover origin of three mysterious signals coming from Milky Way
Researchers at King’s College London have found that a peculiar form of dark matter could be behind three…