NASA’s Hubble Reveals Largest Found Chaotic Birthplace of Planets
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star.…
Astronauts Suit Up for Their Journey to the Moon
If all goes according to plan, four astronauts are set to become the first humans to travel past…
Planet-Eating Giants Reveal How Earth Might Meet Its End
Our sun is roughly halfway through its life cycle, but what happens when it begins to die? A…
Vera Rubin Observatory Could Detect “Between 5 And 50” Comet 3I/ATLAS-Like Objects In The Next 10 Years
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has been such a fixture of the last six months that we might almost forget…
Ariane 6 and Vega C P160C Booster Upgrade Fully Qualified
Credit: ESA / CNES / Optique video du CSG / S. Martin The European Space Agency has completed…
Holidays in Space: 25 Years of Space Station Celebrations
In the quarter century that humans have lived and worked aboard the International Space Station, astronauts and visitors…
Doomed SpaceX Starlink satellite photographed from orbit
We just got a great up-close look at a SpaceX Starlink satellite in orbit, thanks to Vantor’s WorldView-3…
L3Harris wins up to $843 million Space Development Agency contract for Tranche 3 tracking satellites
L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a contract by the Space Development Agency to build 18 infrared satellites for…
We Could Hitch a Ride to Unknown Frontiers on Super-Fast Interstellar Objects Like 3I/ATLAS
Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on December 19, coming within just 167 million…
Astronomers may have detected a first-of-its-kind superkilonova
The three stages of a theoretical superkilonova are imagined in this artist’s concept. A rapidly spinning massive star’s…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Captures 3I/ATLAS
Using the WISPR (Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, scientists observed the interstellar…
Russia’s Plans for a Space Station Includes “Recycling” its ISS Modules
With the International Space Station (ISS) set to retire in 2030, several nations and commercial space companies have…