Jupiter’s Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, may be heating up
Jupiter’s giant moon Ganymede is the only known moon to have its own magnetic field — and it…
What Are Those Two Bright Stars In The West After Sunset?
Jupiter and Venus create spectacle view as they appeard extremely close on March 2, 2023 (Photo by Nicolas…
Scientists think they may have found the remains of an entire galaxy that the Milky Way absorbed billions of years ago — 20 unusual stars hiding inside our own galactic disk, possibly the leftovers of a small galaxy our own home swallowed when it was still young
The Milky Way, by every available measurement of how large galaxies actually develop, is a particular kind of…
Psyche’s High-Resolution View of Mars’ South Pole
This is the highest-resolution view of the water ice-rich south polar cap of Mars captured by NASA’s Psyche…
See A Rare ‘Blue Moon’ Rise After Sunset This Week
Topline May ends with a rare calendar event — a second full moon in a single month, commonly…
Rocket Lab completes ninth dedicated Electron launch for Synspective
Rocket Lab completes ninth dedicated Electron launch for Synspective Rocket Lab has successfully launched and deployed a further…
SpaceX Is Going Public: Here’s the 1 Thing the Company Must Get Right to Justify a $1.5 Trillion Valuation
On Wednesday, Elon Musk’s SpaceX released its S-1 prospectus ahead of its upcoming initial public offering (IPO). The…
NASA’s Fermi Glimpses Power Source of Supercharged Supernovae
An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually…
James Webb discovers a rare giant planet with surprisingly Earth-like temperatures
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have taken a close look at the atmosphere of a…
Rocket Lab launched an Earth observation satellite for the Japanese company Synspective
The American company Rocket Lab launched a radar satellite for Earth observation. The satellite was developed for the…
Psyche Spacecraft Completes Mars Flyby
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft completed its close approach of Mars on May 15, coming within 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers)…
The fuel-saving lunar trajectory that looks like the long way round could solve one of crewed Moon travel’s most awkward problems — losing contact behind the far side
Every Moon mission has to solve two problems at once: how to spend as little propellant as possible,…