The Sun May Be Cleaning Up Earth’s Space Junk
Space is becoming a crowded place. Currently, there are nearly 130 million pieces of space junk orbiting Earth.…
Extreme lensing signatures revealed by correlations of simulated black hole movies
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration et al. First M87 Event Horizon Telescope results. I. The shadow of the…
Voyager 1 is still transmitting from beyond the heliosphere on 22 watts — less power than the bulb in your hallway — and the engineers who built it in the 1970s never expected we’d still be listening half a century later.
On 17 April 2026, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California sent commands to switch off…
The Katy Perry flight wasn’t a vanity project. It was the moment the space industry finally admitted who its real customer is — and the backlash, however satisfying it felt, missed the point entirely.
On 14 April 2025, six women boarded a Blue Origin New Shepard capsule at Launch Site One in…
World leader in Earth observation made in Europe: Small satellites from Finland see everything
Two young innovators from Poland and Finland have built one of the world’s best satellite systems. The radar…
Is Earth’s Constant Companion a Stray Asteroid or a Chunk of the Moon?
Earth has a group of cosmic stalkers. Known as “co-orbitals”, these small bits of rock have a 1:1…
NASA satellites reveal dramatic changes in Earth’s nighttime lights
Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features a planet that is changing after dark. New…
Northern Lights Alert: These States May See The Aurora Friday Night
Topline The northern lights may make another appearance in eight states Friday night, according to the National Oceanic…
Dragon Counts Down to Launch to Resupply Space Station
Live launch coverage is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel for the launch of SpaceX’s 34th commercial resupply services…
Helio and You: Seasons on Earth, Mars, and Beyond
Earth has four seasons – spring, summer, fall, and winter. Other planets (including Jupiter and the other giant…
Curiosity Shakes Loose a Pesky Rock
After NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drilled a sample from this rock on April 25, 2026, it withdrew its…
Mars orbiter captures striking images of ‘chaos and craters’ carved by ancient floods
Stunning new images from Europe’s Mars Express orbiter reveal a rugged Martian landscape carved by catastrophic floods that…