Jodrell Bank Observatory facing closure after major funder cuts support | Astronomy
Jodrell Bank Observatory, which runs a world-leading network of radio telescopes, is facing closure after its major funder…
‘Our country is the mission’: more than 100 ex-Nasa astronauts launch new voting campaign | Nasa
Orbiting 250 miles above the US in the international space station, astronaut Cady Coleman did not look down…
This is the best lunar eclipse until New Year’s Eve 2028 — Here’s how to spot the ‘almost blood moon’ on Aug. 27
One month from today, skywatchers across the Americas, Europe and Africa will have the chance to witness the…
Giant Concentric Rings Discovered in The Atmosphere of Venus : ScienceAlert
Whatever astronomers glimpsed during a brief observation of Venus in 2010 was not supposed to be there. During…
The Grand Canyon looks vast until you set it beside Valles Marineris on Mars, a single rift so long it would stretch clear across the United States and in places plunges up to seven kilometres deep, making it the largest canyon in the solar system
If Valles Marineris were placed on Earth, it could extend from California to New York. It is not…
APOD: 2026 July 27 – NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula
APOD: 2026 July 27 – NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image…
The software that landed men on the Moon was not loaded onto the Apollo Guidance Computer so much as woven into it, with women at a Raytheon plant threading wire through or around thousands of tiny magnetic rings by hand, one pass for a one and one miss for a zero, until the whole program was a physical textile
The software that guided Apollo 11 towards the Moon did not reach its computer as an electronic download.…
Scientists may have found the first moon beyond our solar system
Scientists may have found the first moon beyond our Solar System. Unlike every moon we know, this giant…
See A Full ‘Buck Moon’ And ‘Shooting Stars:’ The Night Sky This Week
Topline July closes with two of the celestial highlights of summer — the rise of the full Buck…
Somewhere in the dried bed of an ancient Martian river, the Perseverance rover has been drilling into rocks for more than four years — and last June, NASA scientists announced that two of them contain the same complex carbon-based molecules that form the building blocks of life on Earth
A paper published in Science Advances on 24 June 2026 reports the detection of complex organic carbon in…
Starship’s launches next-gen Starlink satellites and improves re-entry
SpaceX has completed another major milestone in the development of its fully reusable Starship launch system, successfully deploying…
‘It’s not rocket science’: a day in the life of a Nasa behavioral health scientist | Well actually
Dr Suzanne Bell, an organizational psychologist, leads the Behavioral Health and Performance Laboratory at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center.…