He was one of the most distinguished American astronomers of his day, but an obsession with Martians became his downfall
Professor David Peck Todd is one of the most remarkable astronomers you’ve never heard of. A distinguished professor…
Starship in space! See highlights of SpaceX megarocket’s epic Flight 13 test launch (video)
The 13th test flight of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket went pretty well — and provided some amazing visuals, too.…
“Made in Bharat” chips for space rockets soon, says Ashwini Vaishnaw
New Delhi [India], July 28 (ANI): India will soon equip its space launch vehicles with domestically produced semiconductors,…
The Parker Solar Probe flies through the sun’s outer atmosphere behind a carbon shield eleven and a half centimetres thick, and the arrangement works so well that while the front face glows at almost fourteen hundred degrees, the instruments sitting a metre behind it stay at roughly the temperature of a comfortable living room
At its closest approaches, Parker Solar Probe passes about 6.2 million kilometres above the Sun’s visible surface. Sunlight…
The first woman to fly in space was not a test pilot or a scientist but a young textile worker, and in 1963 Valentina Tereshkova orbited the Earth alone for three days, longer than every American astronaut combined had managed by then
When you picture the people who flew the first space missions, you probably picture a certain kind of…
Re-Testing An Apollo Guidance Computer Module That Failed Certification Testing
After getting his hands on a rope driver module from the Apollo project era that had a big…
Mars rover finds evidence of repeated asteroid impacts on Mars
Earth’s earliest history has largely been erased by plate tectonics and erosion, but Mars has kept some of…
Trump admin exempts SpaceX’s Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers
The Trump administration today exempted SpaceX’s Starlink routers from the Federal Communications Commission ban on foreign-made routers. A…
NASA to Cover Three US Spacewalks, Host Preview News Conference
Editor’s note: This media advisory was updated July 27, 2026 to reflect an updated start time for the…
The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs had unexpected origins
A new study has found that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was a rare, dry type of…
Amendment 68: New Opportunity: D.8 Habitable Worlds Observatory Precursor Science Investigations
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a large-aperture ultraviolet/visible/near-infrared observatory concept recommended by the National Academies of Science,…
NASA Science Soars During August Total Solar Eclipse
Each time the Moon covers the Sun during a total solar eclipse — darkening daytime skies and briefly…