NASA Selects Next Class of Space Health Postdoctoral Fellows
The NASA-funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) has selected two early‑career scientists for its next class…
NASA’s MAVEN Makes 1st Discovery of Atmospheric Effect at Mars
In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected — observations of an atmospheric…
Northern lights may be visible in several US states tonight as 3 CMEs race toward Earth
A trio of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is currently hurtling toward Earth and space weather forecasters say we…
See Boeing 737-Sized Asteroid Pass Much Closer Than The Moon Tonight
When at its closest at 4:16 p.m. EDT (20:16 UTC) on June 27, 2011 UL21 will be one…
Artemis 2 moon astronauts snap gorgeous shot of swirling stars photo of the day for May 18, 2026
The view out the window of the Orion capsule “Integrity” during NASA’s Artemis 2 mission around the moon.…
Manhattanhenge 2026 is coming this month: Here’s when and where to see the sunset spectacle
Twice each year, New Yorkers gather along Manhattan’s cross streets to watch the setting sun perfectly align with…
SpaceX Starlink and other satellite megaconstellations are creating an ‘unregulated geoengineering experiment’, scientists say
Space industry aficionados have big plans. They talk about the not so distant future when hundreds of thousands…
AI could make humans less intelligent, warns Royal Observatory – BBC
AI could make humans less intelligent, warns Royal Observatory BBCIs AI coming for our thinking? Behold the age of…
‘Truly significant’: James Webb telescope reveals largest-ever map of the universe’s hidden megastructures
Astronomers have reconstructed the “skeleton” of the cosmos in unprecedented detail, thanks to the largest-ever survey conducted by…
The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth and runs on less power than a household kettle — and its deployment sequence had 344 single points of failure, any one of which could have ended the mission
The James Webb Space Telescope operates from a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point, roughly 1.5 million…
The moon is moving away from Earth at 3.8 centimetres per year — which means the total solar eclipses humans alive today get to see are something no future civilisation will ever witness
Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong left a suitcase-sized array of corner-cube retroreflectors on the Sea…
See A Jaw-Dropping Crescent Moon Join Planets After Sunset This Week
Topline After last week’s New Supermoon, the night sky springs back to life with a series of delicate…