Looking Forward to the Moon
On May 8, 2022, NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems’ Program Manager Shawn Quinn captured this crop of a full…
Ontario officially cancels Starlink contract
Ontario has officially cancelled its $100-million contract with Starlink, but the province refuses to say how much it…
NASA’s Webb Traces Details of Complex Planetary Nebula
Since their discovery in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that planetary nebulae, or the expanding shell of…
Silence broken by shrinking planet — Exoplanet meltdown spotted live
The Earth is in the perfect position to the sun. He can’t burn everything down or make the…
'The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.' Museum resists Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' plan to move space shuttle to Houston – Space
‘The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.’ Museum resists Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ plan to move space shuttle to…
NASA spots ‘something’ beyond Milky Way — Two ‘dancing’ and flowing aimlessly
As we gaze up at the night sky and see a seemingly still, almost static calm, the universe…
James Webb Space Telescope finds giant, lonely exoplanets can build their own planetary friends without a parent star
Our parochial view of planets orbiting a central star — so familiar because it is the layout seen…
NASA and India’s space agency launch radar satellite to see Earth like never before
Facebook Tweet Email Link A first-of-its-kind satellite has launched to track nearly imperceptible changes on Earth’s surface, an…
Hubble Space Telescope spots rogue planet with a little help from Einstein: ‘It was a lucky break’
Astronomers discovered a new rogue planet lurking in archival data gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope, and the…
India and US set for launch of ‘first-of-its-kind’ satellite
A new satellite set to launch soon will keep a hawk’s eye on Earth, detecting and reporting even…
Planetary scientist Michele Dougherty made UK’s first female astronomer royal | Astronomy
A planetary scientist whose research revealed the possibility of extraterrestrial life on one of Saturn’s moons has been…
First Eris launch fails to reach orbit
WASHINGTON — The first flight of an orbital rocket developed by an Australian company ended seconds after liftoff…