Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on…
NASA’s next major space telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman, is expected to find roughly 100,000 new transiting planets in just five years — along with the largest catalogue ever assembled of rogue worlds drifting through the galaxy without a star to orbit
According to NASA’s December 2025 announcement that construction of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope had been completed,…
When NASA deliberately crashed Apollo hardware into the Moon, the seismometers left behind recorded vibrations for nearly an hour — as if the Moon itself were ringing like a bell
Between 1969 and 1972, NASA deliberately steered spent pieces of Apollo hardware into the Moon. Empty lunar module…
Red dwarf stars are cosmic killers that eat their own planets
Astronomers have discovered the first signs that tiny red dwarf stars can devour their own planets. Scientists had…
Astronomers finally solve Saturn’s decades-long spin mystery
For years, Saturn appeared to be doing something impossible. Measurements suggested the giant planet’s rotation rate was changing…
Don’t shoot for the moon: aiming for ‘above average’ is key to success, maths suggests | Science
It is the end of an idiom for motivational speakers. Instead of shooting for the moon when pursuing…
Scientists used a method from ecology to identify whether icy moons could hold conditions for life
New observatories and spacecraft missions are probing environments in our solar system that could potentially host life but…
SpaceX skeptics concerned as Musk comments diverge from IPO filing
Elon Musk is photographed at SpaceX in Brownsville, Texas. Marvin Joseph | The Washington Post | Getty Images…
This piercing glow is the ferocious light from a supermassive black hole 8 million times as massive as our Sun
At the centre of galaxy Messier 77 lies a cosmic behemoth glowing so intensely, it outshines its entire…
Journey to the centre of a galaxy cluster
The focus of today’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month is an active spiral galaxy on a journey lasting hundreds of millions of…
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Poster
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Just Like Stars, Open Clusters Can Form Binary Pairs
Open star clusters are some of the most dazzling objects in the sky. The small ones contain a…