Last month to claim a boarding pass and join NASA — 10-day journey to the Moon and back to the Earth 50 years later
History is a crucial part of our human experience, and in 1969, NASA proved that to be true.…
Mars orbiter sees ‘butterfly’ crater spread its wings on the Red Planet
A new view of Mars showcases a dramatic impact crater on the Red Planet with its debris wings…
The 1st Global Space Awards honors late Apollo 13 astronaut James Lovell on Dec. 5
The inaugural Global Space Awards ceremony gets underway this Friday (Dec. 5), as 340 guests converge at a…
The ISS Is Out of Parking Spots for the First Time Ever. Here’s Why
It’s getting busy in low Earth orbit, with a record number of spaceships now attached to the International…
Voyager 2 Caught Uranus on a Bad Weather Day in 1986, Study Finds
When Voyager 2 made its historic flyby of Uranus in 1986, the spacecraft captured the best data humanity…
Senyar Swamps Sumatra – NASA Science
Tropical cyclones almost never form over the Strait of Malacca. The narrow waterway separating Peninsular Malaysia from the…
Seeing a bull’s-eye in the desert photo of the day for Dec. 5, 2025
In the middle of Mauritania’s Sahara Desert, surrounded by an ocean of sand, lies a colossal stone spiral…
Goodbye to the idea of a fully known Solar System—astronomers announce the discovery of a new moon that redefines our space maps
Sometimes it seems that we have already seen everything in the Solar System and that after decades of…
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit from…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Dec. 4,…
Rocket Report: Blunder at Baikonur; do launchers really need rocket engines?
The easiest way to keep up with Eric Berger’s and Stephen Clark’s reporting on all things space is…
Mars clocks run 477 microseconds faster than Earth’s; here is why future exploration must compensate for it
Planet Mars (Image source: Digital Vision) Clocks on Mars are about 477 microseconds faster than their counterparts on…
NASA Discovers Bacteria ‘Playing Dead’ to Survive Extreme Space Conditions
A recent study published in Microbiology Spectrum has uncovered groundbreaking insights into how certain bacteria can survive in…