Watch European astronaut make history during spacewalk today
Sophie Adenot will make spaceflight history today (Aug. 18). The European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut will become the…
MOTHRA Shows Us A Star Being Recycled in the Helix Nebula
Most stars end their lives not in cataclysmic supernova explosions, but with a final exhalation instead. Main sequence…
Webb Captures Clearest Image Yet of the Lion Nebula
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged NGC 2392 (aka. the Lion Nebula), so-named because of its…
HEO to use Planet satellites for non-Earth imaging
WASHINGTON — HEO, the Australian company that uses Earth observation satellites to take images of other spacecraft, has…
The JWST Little Red Dots Could Be ‘Black Hole Stars’
The early Universe’s Little Red Dots (LRD) could be the JWST’s strangest discovery. LRDs are small, red, astronomical…
SpaceX Closes In on $150 as 2 Rockets Launch Back-to-Back
Quick Read SpaceX (SPCX) crushed Q2 estimates by 15%, delivering $7.8B in revenue on 92% year-over-year growth as…
JWST found water-altered clay minerals on two of Neptune’s tiny inner moons and its rings that probably formed deep inside much larger icy worlds — compelling evidence that today’s moons may be rubble from Neptune’s original satellite system, destroyed when the captured moon Triton tore through it billions of years ago.
The clay is the clue. Larissa and Galatea are two small, dark moons tucked close to Neptune, where…
On this day in space! Aug. 17, 1877: Asaph Hall Discovers the Martian moon Phobos
On Aug. 17, 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Mars’s moon Phobos. Moons of Mars: Amazing Photos of…
What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 1: The Atmospheric Fingerprint
In 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft, then six billion kilometers from Earth and destined to become humanity’s most…
Billionaire founder agrees with Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos: We will work in space
Some of the world’s most powerful tech billionaires think your next job posting could come from another planet.…
Swift spacecraft, and a mission to save it, caught on video
The Sociedad de Astronomía del Caribe in Añasco, Puerto Rico, captured this video at about 8:02–8:03 p.m. AST…
Moon Meets Venus, Spica And The ‘Anti-Mars’: The Night Sky This Week
Topline With the Perseid meteor shower fading and the total solar eclipse now over, attention turns to the…