Catching Up With Perseverance on Mars
Episode description: NASA’s robotic explorers are looking for signs of ancient life on Mars. In its five…
Almost everyone assumes Venus is our nearest neighbour, but averaged across its orbit the planet closest to Earth is actually Mercury
Most people would say Venus is Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour. Averaged across its orbit, though, the planet that…
The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs did not just leave a crater, it turned the sky into a weapon, and the worst damage may have come after the impact itself was already over
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 10 to 12 kilometres across struck a shallow, sulfur-rich carbonate…
SpaceX Seeks $135 a Share for $75 Billion IPO, Reuters Says
(Bloomberg) — SpaceX aims to sell 555.6 million shares at $135 apiece for its record-breaking $75 billion initial…
Webb Telescope snaps interstellar comet – proves it’s like nothing we’ve ever seen in our own Solar System
NASA has released the results of the James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of 3I/ATLAS, and the data confirms…
When Is Summer Solstice? The Longest Day Of The Year And What It Means
Topline When is the summer solstice? The June solstice will this year occur on Sunday, 21 June. It…
Be a Clump Scout and Help Reveal Secrets of Stellar Nurseries
In the mid-20th century, astronomers discovered strange “clumpy” galaxies filled with mysterious bright blobs – massive stellar nurseries…
NASA’s $4 Billion Roman Space Telescope Heads To Florida For Launch
WFIRST, shown here in an artist’s rendering, will carry a Wide Field Instrument to provide astronomers with Hubble-quality…
Much of what we know about the scale of the universe rests on a method worked out by a woman employed as a human computer at Harvard for a few cents an hour
Much of what we know about the scale of the universe rests on a method worked out by…
Spacewalking With Scott Wray, Artemis EVA Training Lead
Scott Wray’s experience with spacewalks started when he was about 6 years old. A tent resembling a lunar…
Student-powered ‘moon’ rovers put to the test photo of the day for June 2, 2026
A team navigates an obstacle course on an Earth-bound rover as part of NASA’s 2026 Human Exploration Rover…
Scientists Think a Cosmic Particle Accelerator Shot a Mystery Particle Right at Earth
A new paper in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics has put forth an intriguing theory: A…