NASA is looking for volunteers to live in a space simulator for a year
For the closest thing to spending a year on Mars, without leaving Earth, look no further than Houston. NASA…
NASA’s Hubble spots a stellar sparkler for the Fourth of July
A brilliant field of red, white, and blue stars sparkles across a new image from NASA’s Hubble Space…
Infleqtion (INFQ) Launches America’s Quantum Space Initiative to Advance Space Infrastructure
Infleqtion Inc. (NYSE:INFQ) is one of the best new tech stocks to buy according to analysts. On June…
James Webb Uncovers the Atmosphere of a Hellish Lava World 41 Light-Years Away
Artist’s illustration of lava exoplanet CoRoT-7 b. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada JWST data suggest 55 Cancri e may be…
Saturn used to be listed with 83 moons. Then astronomers looked harder, found dozens more, and by 2026 the count had exploded to 285 — so many that Saturn now has nearly three times as many confirmed moons as Jupiter.
A few years ago, Saturn was listed with 83 moons. Then astronomers looked harder, began finding them dozens…
A 10-Year Sky Survey Begins Filming A ‘Cosmic Movie,’ Cyborg Cockroaches Go For A Dive And More Science Stories
This week marked the beginning of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time, a…
The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, is now so far from Earth that a radio signal travelling at the speed of light takes over 22 hours to reach it, and it is still sending data back from interstellar space on a power source the size of a car battery
Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is now so far from Earth that a radio signal travelling at the…
Here’s Why The Latest Rocket Lab Acquisition Could Shake Up The Entire Space Economy
Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB), a developer of reusable orbital rockets, recently agreed to acquire Iridium (NASDAQ: IRDM), a…
The debate over how many Earth-like planets exist has a wide range — from one, if the Rare Earth hypothesis is right, to something approaching a hundred quintillion, if Milky Way rates hold across the universe’s roughly two trillion galaxies — and both answers are supported by serious researchers
Ask how many Earth-like planets there are, and the honest answer is that serious researchers give estimates spanning…
NASA launched an emergency mission to stop the Swift Observatory from crashing to Earth
The Swift Observatory was launched in 2004, but recent solar storms have pushed its orbit lower, and it’s…
America 250: From 1776 to the moon and beyond (A Space.com series)
Happy Fourth of July, Space Fans! As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, we here at Space.com…
New details hint at the origin of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
The passing of a comet from another star system gives scientists an opportunity to peer back into ancient…