The Haystack 37m Telescope: A new era of astrophysical research | MIT News
The Haystack 37m Telescope has been a landmark in radio astronomy and radar studies of the solar system since…
See Jupiter glow beside the waxing moon after sunset on May 20
Look west after sunset on May 20 to witness the waxing crescent moon line up with bright Jupiter.…
Scientists just solved a tricky asteroid-hopping spacecraft riddle
A new approach that riffs on the classic Traveling Salesperson problem could enable more efficient space missions to…
NASA satellite will test orbital ‘gas station’ tech to help astronauts reach the moon and Mars
A new NASA satellite will test critical technologies for storing and transferring super-chilled, cryogenic fuels in space in…
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st Starship V3 will now launch on May 21
Refresh 2026-05-19T06:03:00.677Z SpaceX Starship Flight 12 will now launch on May 21 The 12th test flight of SpaceX’s…
The Carrington Event of 1859 was a solar storm so intense that telegraph operators kept sending messages after disconnecting their batteries because the storm itself was powering the lines — and a Lloyd’s of London risk model estimates a comparable event today could cost the U.S. up to 2.6 trillion dollars
In late August and early September 1859, Earth was struck by a sequence of geomagnetic disturbances, the largest…
What If the Universe Had No Beginning? Part 4: The Reckoning
(This is Part 4 of a series on Hawking’s no-boundary proposal. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part…
Will the future of work for Gen Z include space?
In some regards, young people are getting the short end of the stick when it comes to the…
Scientists Identified Asteroids That Could Help Humans Build Permanent Cities on Mars
A team of researchers from EPFL in Switzerland has explored whether asteroids could supply the metals and fuel…
For the first time in human history, most people live under skies they cannot see — and the psychological consequence of having lost the night sky has barely begun to be measured.
There is a fact about the night sky in 2026 that does not get mentioned in most space…
Fermi Files Preliminary Consent Revocation Statement
Board is Committed to Acting in the Best Interests of Fermi Shareholders and Cites Strong Momentum Behind Fermi…
The Cassini spacecraft was deliberately flown into Saturn in 2017 because its fuel was running low and engineers refused to risk it drifting into Enceladus, a moon with a subsurface ocean, and the final 22 orbits were designed to thread a 1,500-mile gap between Saturn and its innermost ring that no spacecraft had ever attempted.
On September 15, 2017, a spacecraft burned up in the cloud tops of Saturn, ending a 20-year mission…