Space

Galileo, NASA’s flagship mission to Jupiter, launched in 1989, and on 11 April 1991 its large high-gain antenna…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a dark, scorched world that may be similar to the…

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct evidence of auroras on Neptune, according to findings published in Nature…

The third of those four Full Moons in the season is the Blue Moon, with “Blue” being added…

Our Sun is a loner. It lacks a stellar companion hurtling through interstellar space with it. But we’ve…

Nasa announced on Tuesday ambitious plans for three uncrewed lunar missions this year to kickstart construction of a…

The setting sun moves across 42nd Street as people stand on the Pershing Square Bridge on Park Avenue…

Credit: ASI / Thales Alenia Space The Italian Space Agency announced on 22 May that its Multi-Purpose Habitation…

B.3 Living With a Star Science (LWS) emphasizes the science necessary to understand those aspects of the coupled…

Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system, also hosts some of the biggest moons. That includes Ganymede,…

On May 22 at Heft Gallery in New York City, “Redshift” transformed a gallery space into an existential…

The rocket boosters for NASA’s Artemis 2 mission following separation. (Image credit: NASA) The rocket boosters from NASA’s…

When the Galileo spacecraft’s main antenna failed to unfurl on the way to Jupiter, engineers salvaged the mission by rewriting its software across deep space, compressing its data and squeezing a flagship science return through a low-gain antenna never meant to carry it.