‘Nothing short of magical’: Astrophotographer captures Lyrid meteors beside the Milky Way
Lyrid meteors blaze alongside the glow of the Milky Way. (Image credit: Josh Dury) Astrophotographer Josh Dury captured…
AST SpaceMobile Provides Business Update and First Quarter 2026 Results
MIDLAND, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (“AST SpaceMobile”) (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular…
Watch SpaceX launch secret US spy satellites to orbit from California today
SpaceX will launch a batch of spy satellites for the U.S. government this evening (May 11), and you…
Study Identifies Geyers the JUICE Mission Could Explore on Ganymede
Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, is also the Solar System’s largest satellite, even larger than the planet Mercury. It…
AI has validated over 100 more exoplanets using NASA’s data
Seven years into its mission, NASA’s TESS satellite has already confirmed roughly 700 exoplanets. That sounds like a…
NASA’s Artemis 3 rocket is taking shape for 2027 launch to test lunar landers (photo)
It’s only been a month since NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean to wrap…
NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Robotics Competition
NASA will hold its 2026 Lunabotics Challenge Tuesday, May 19, to Thursday, May 21, at the Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space…
Joint Earth Observation Mission Quality Assessment Framework – Optical Guidelines Documents Released
NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program, in conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the U.S.…
How NASA lunar scientists taught Artemis 2 astronauts to see the moon with different eyes
Not everyone looks at the moon and sees the same thing. That’s especially true for the four astronauts…
Satellites spy one of Russia’s most active volcanoes melting snow from the inside out
A growing lava dome and dark flow channels are visible inside Shivelyuch volcano’s caldera in this detailed Landsat…
A Gigantic Atmospheric Anomaly Keeps Showing Up on Venus. Astronomers Finally Know Why
In 2016, a Japanese Venus orbiter repeatedly spotted colossal waves of acidic clouds sweeping the planet’s atmosphere. For…
This Telescope Spent Five Years Mapping the Cosmos and Captured 47 Million Galaxies in the Process
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed the most detailed survey of the universe ever produced, mapping…