NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Construction
NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner…
Geminid shooting stars — One of 2025’s most exciting meteor showers begins tonight
Stargazers rejoice! Dec. 4 marks the start of the annual Geminid meteor shower, as Earth passes through the…
Damaged launch pad: How long before Russia can send astronauts to the ISS again?
On Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 27), a Russian Soyuz rocket launched three astronauts toward the International Space Station from…
NASA Just Recorded the First High-Res Imagery of a Tsunami From Space
The mental picture of a tsunami is usually a giant wall of water building across the ocean and…
Why Putin and Modi are meeting in Delhi
Steve Rosenberg,Russia editor, in Delhiand Vikas Pandey,India editor AFP via Getty Images Russia’s Vladimir Putin was embraced warmly…
See the metal guts of a satellite in this wild X-ray view photo of the day for Dec. 4, 2025
In a hangar outside Zurich, a veteran of low Earth orbit lay under a kind of medical scanner…
Sam Altman has explored deal to build competitor to Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, in the summer, and the discussions picked…
How Did Life Happen? NASA Says It Found Tantalizing Clues on Asteroid Bennu
New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues…
Astronomers spot one of the largest spinning structures ever found in the Universe
image:Â A figure illustrating the rotation of neutral hydrogen (right) in galaxies residing in an extended filament (middle),…
NASA heads to Death Valley to test new Mars drone tech
After reaching Mars with the Perseverance rover in early 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter proved a huge success as…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS To Whizz Past Earth This December Just 1.8 AU Away, Before A Potentially Course-Altering Encounter With Jupiter
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth this month, whizzing by at 270 million kilometers…
New discovery sets humanity up to image “alien Earth”
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…