Bending Spacetime Reveals New Planet Hidden in Archived TESS Data
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has captured evidence of a Jupiter-like world orbiting another star, using a…
In April 2025, four private astronauts on SpaceX’s Fram2 mission became the first humans ever to circle Earth in a true polar orbit, flying directly over both poles — a route no government crewed space program had taken in more than six decades of human spaceflight.
Human spaceflight had crossed oceans, docked with stations, circled the Moon and lived in orbit for more than…
How to find Uranus this week, the hardest planet I’ve ever tried to see
I used to think Uranus was the sort of planet you graduated into. Saturn and its rings first,…
The Sun’s Atmosphere May Be Feeding on Dust
3D rendering of the Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA The Sun’s outer atmosphere may have a dust problem—and…
SpaceX’s Next Big Business Isn’t Rockets. It’s Computer Chips.
Six months ago, SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) was a private rocket company. Today, it is a public one worth…
In 1610, Galileo spotted a small, smooth moon circling Jupiter and wrote it down; four hundred years later, scientists confirmed it likely holds the largest ocean in the solar system, buried under ice and never once touched by sunlight
In January 1610, Galileo Galilei turned a small telescope toward Jupiter and noticed something that should not have…
The Milky Way’s arms might not look as we thought
This video shows what astronomers thought the Milky Way looked like, and what the new data indicates instead.…
The Space Shuttle Endeavour Goes On Public Display Later This Year
NASA’s shuttle has been in LA since 2012, but now it’ll have a permanent exhibit at the California…
SpaceX’s Next Big Business Isn’t Rockets. It’s Computer Chips.
Six months ago, SpaceX (SPCX +2.83%) was a private rocket company. Today, it is a public one worth…
The oldest known image of the cosmos is a Bronze Age disc of bronze and gold, dug from a German hilltop by looters and recovered three years later in a Swiss police sting
The oldest known image of the cosmos is not painted or carved. It is cast in metal. It…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover is Investigating Unusual Polygon Structures That Look Like a “Giant Martian Honeycomb”
An unusual discovery on the Red Planet has revealed an odd-looking series of polygon-shaped structures, documented in new…
Neptune’s odd moon may be the only survivor of its violent past
Nereid, one of Neptune’s odder moons, may have formed right where it orbits rather than drifting in from…