Girl Scouts Event Brings Space Science to the Next Generation
In early May 2026, NASA employees, contractors, and volunteers helped to bring Heliophysics to girls of all ages…
Astrophysical Calibration Could “Autotune” Gravitational Wave Detection
Ever since gravitational waves were first confirmed in 2017 by scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory…
Controversial ‘JuMBO’ planets discovered by James Webb telescope may not be an illusion after all
A mysterious new kind of celestial object discovered by the James Webb telescope just inched closer to reality,…
Where did Mercury get its water ice? Maybe from a slow asteroid impact in a single Mercurian day
A single colossal impact may have rapidly spread water across Mercury and locked much of it into permanently…
Earth is quietly dusted with thousands of tonnes of space material every year, most of it as grains smaller than sand — and some of it can be sifted from the grit of ordinary roof gutters, tiny meteorites hiding in plain sight in cities.
Extraterrestrial dust falls on every part of the Earth, including the parts covered in cities. Most of it…
Musk says SpaceX did not commit to long-term Colossus lease with Anthropic
May 28 (Reuters) – SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday the IPO-bound company had only agreed to…
Decoding The Tianwen-2 Sample Return Mission’s Telemetry Signal
China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission launched on 28 May of 2025 and is scheduled to arrive at its…
Mini world near Pluto is far more active than it should be – and experts are baffled
A tiny frozen world in the outer Solar System has been found to have an atmosphere, making it…
A Shift in What’s Shaping U.S. Landscapes
The land is always changing, sometimes by human hands: cities are built, farms expanded, and forests logged. Other…
In 1992, the number of confirmed planets outside our solar system was zero — and as of this year, NASA’s exoplanet archive lists more than 6,000 of them, with the lead scientist on the archive predicting the number could hit 100,000 within the next seven years
The official tally of confirmed planets outside our solar system, maintained by NASA’s Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech,…
Chandrayaan-2 discovers possible ice buried on Moon’s South Pole
India’s lunar ambitions have scored another scientific milestone. Scientists analysing data from India’s second Moon mission, Indian Space…
The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs happened to strike a shallow seabed rich in sulphur and buried hydrocarbons, throwing soot and aerosols into the sky — and researchers argue the same rock hitting most other places might not have ended their reign.
The asteroid that struck near Chicxulub, in what is now the Yucatán Peninsula, about 66 million years ago…