How asteroids may have sparked life on Earth
Scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have taken a new look at Earth’s violent beginnings and found that…
These impressive space photos come with…sound? NASA has turned photographs of galaxies and nebulae into songs in a newly released collection
NASA’s deep space images often feel like both science and art. But NASA’s latest images are art in…
A tiny “quasi-moon” called Kamoʻoalewa shadows Earth’s orbit and may be a piece of the actual Moon blasted into space by an ancient impact — and China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is now closing in to bring a sample back to Earth.
Earth has one Moon, but it does not travel entirely alone. A small asteroid called Kamoʻoalewa loops along…
Latitude plans to conduct first launch from Oman
WASHINGTON — French startup Latitude intends to perform the first launch of its small launch vehicle from a…
How asteroids may have sparked life on Earth
Scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have taken a new look at Earth’s violent beginnings and found that…
A fully built, fully tested lunar rover named VIPER faced dismantlement for parts after its 2024 cancellation, and NASA is now considering sending a Mars engineering testbed that has spent its working life in a JPL rock yard to the Moon instead
NASA announced on June 30, 2026, that it is considering sending PROMISE, an engineering test rover built at…
America at 250, Seen from Space
The mosaic stretches from the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest to the Everglades of Florida, and from the…
Dan Ives Just Gave Elon Musk and SpaceX Some Great News
Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ:SPCX) and its record-setting IPO have arguably been the biggest story in the stock market…
This weird ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanet has a hotspot in the wrong place, and astronomers aren’t sure how
Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in the universe, blazing gas giants like Jupiter or…
In 2024, engineers rescued Voyager 1 after it spent months transmitting gibberish, remotely rewriting and relocating pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip from more than 24 billion kilometres away.
In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense. Voyager 1,…
Astronomers Find Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Just 25 Light-Years Away
Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet about twice Earth’s size just 25 light-years away, orbiting in the habitable…
From pureed meals to fresh greens: how space food is advancing to keep astronauts healthy
The Artemis II mission to the Moon has reignited humanity’s desire for exploration and renewed our perspective of…