Webb reveals the chaotic aftermath of a galaxy merger
Webb peers into Arp 263, a nearby irregular galaxy still bearing the scars of a violent merger and…
Thousands of Interstellar Objects May Be Lurking in Our Solar System
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that went interstellar, entombed the sky, hit…
Artemis II astronauts receive nation’s highest space honor for their successful moonshot | Artemis II
The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon in April received the US’s highest space honor on…
SpaceX test-fires Starship Super Heavy booster ahead of critical Flight 14
SpaceX just took another step toward the highly anticipated next test flight of its Starship megarocket. The company…
In 1965, two radio engineers at Bell Labs spent months scraping pigeon droppings out of a giant horn antenna trying to eliminate a faint background hiss they couldn’t explain, only to discover the noise was the leftover heat of the Big Bang itself, arriving from every direction at once
A twenty foot horn antenna built to bounce satellite signals across an ocean, and two grown men standing…
On this day in space! Aug. 29, 1965: NASA’s Gemini 5 breaks spaceflight duration record after 2 astronauts spent ‘8 days in a garbage can’
On Aug. 29, 1965, two NASA astronauts returned from their record-breaking Gemini 5 mission. Astronauts Gordon Cooper and…
When is the next lunar eclipse?
August’s “almost Blood Moon” partial lunar eclipse has come and gone, delighting stargazers with a gorgeous natural light…
How did the solar system form? Ancient meteorite reveals a key magnetic force alongside gravity
How did the solar system form? Ancient meteorite reveals a key magnetic force alongside gravity – Futura-Sciences August…
NASA once sent chicken eggs to space with funding from KFC
The 1980s had no shortage of strange ideas, but this one might take the cake… or the chicken.…
Nasa space telescope set to launch after surviving Trump budget cuts | Nasa
A $4.3bn space telescope that Donald Trump tried to kill is set to lift off from Florida early…
Who was Nancy Grace Roman? NASA’s next big space telescope is named after the ‘Mother of Hubble’
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launch on an incredible adventure to help scientists explore…
NASA Is Building “Air Traffic Control” for the Moon
At nearly 240,000 miles from Earth, the moon is getting its first spaceport, Gateway — and engineers developed…