Statue of Liberty Nebula Wins NASA’s Picture of Day
NASA just put a photo of the Statue of Liberty Nebula in front of a global audience, and…
Total solar eclipse meets Perseid peak on August 12, 2026
For about two minutes on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 12, the Moon’s shadow will sweep across the…
Astronomers Detect an Atmosphere on a Potentially Earth-Like World
In this artist’s concept, the exoplanet LHS 1140 b is shown in the foreground, surrounded by a helium-rich…
JWST May Be Missing Water Hidden Deep Within Mini-Neptune Worlds
Sub-Neptune exoplanets, exoplanets that are slightly smaller than Neptune, have been designated as the most common type of…
Psyche spacecraft rehearses asteroid science at Mars
Mars was a rehearsal, not a destination. Here is what a spacecraft built for a metal asteroid came…
SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight
SpaceX was more than lucky Friday, sending its 13th full-scale Starship test flight halfway around the world from…
Connected under the Milky Way: new exhibition shares Indigenous astronomical knowledge from Australia to South Africa | Indigenous Australians
Carlleen Dingo’s earliest memories are of looking up at the inky black skies above Australia’s north-west coastline, awash…
This satellite image of a ‘hummingbird’ isn’t what you think
A newly published satellite image of Antarctica‘s frozen tundra captured what looks like the plumage of a humble…
We tend to imagine the habitable zone as a narrow ring around a star, but icy moons have transformed that picture. Far beyond the reach of life-sustaining sunlight, vast oceans may remain liquid beneath their frozen surfaces—warmed by the constant gravitational flexing of the giant planets they orbit.
The picture most of us were given at school was wonderfully simple. Put a star in the middle,…
Mars Express Captures ‘Metallic’ Waves Rolling Across an Ancient Martian Crater
When we think of Mars as the “Red Planet”, the image that comes to mind is just that…
In July 2028 NASA launches a car-sized, 1,000-pound nuclear drone toward Saturn’s moon Titan, a six-year, $3.35 billion trip to a world where the air is four times denser than Earth’s, gravity is one-seventh as strong, and flying is the easy part.
The upcoming Dragonfly mission is unlike any planetary mission NASA has ever attempted. Instead of another slow-moving rover,…
SpaceX launches massive Starship rocket in first test flight since IPO
The SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy v3 Booster lift off on its 13th test flight from the SpaceX…