‘Is a President allowed to go on a space mission?’: Trump jokes as Artemis II astronauts visit White House
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he meets with Artemis II astronauts (Image/AP) US President Donald Trump…
Laser-Swarm Science at the Proxima Centauri System
Laser sail propulsion is an idea that won’t go away. By aiming powerful Earth-based lasers at tiny spacecraft…
Astrophysics wasn’t Carole Jordan’s only legacy | Astronomy
Your obituary of the astrophysicist Carole Jordan (31 March) describes a life dedicated to making important discoveries about…
James Webb Space Telescope’s strange little red dots may really be ‘black hole stars’, X-ray data suggests
The discovery of an X-ray signal coinciding with the location of one of the mysterious ‘little red dots’…
The Universe Builds Stars by the Book
Think of the night sky and you probably picture stars as individual points of light, scattered at random.…
NASA would cancel dozens of missions under White House’s proposed cuts
Weeks after NASA’s first crewed mission around the moon in more than 50 years ended to great fanfare,…
Elon Musk gets an apology from California regulators as a SpaceX lawsuit is settled
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators apologized to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk this week as they settled a…
NASA Fires Up Powerful Lithium-Fed Thruster for Trips to Mars
To view the test, Polk peered through a small portal into the 26-foot-long (8-meter-long) water-cooled vacuum chamber. Inside,…
SpaceX Board has set a Mars bonus for Elon Musk
SpaceX was dealt a new setback on April 23, 2006 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after the…
The cosmos wears a galactic sombrero photo of the day for April 29, 2026
Messier 104, or the Sombrero galaxy. (Image credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURAImage Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), D.…
Help scientists find spacetime warps in these Euclid Space Telescope images
A new citizen science project invites the public to scan never-before-seen images from the Euclid Space Telescope in…
Day Will Turn Into Night and It Won’t Return for 157 Years
On a blistering August morning, the Sun will simply vanish. Across a narrow corridor from the Straits of…