NASA Invites Media to Learn About Upcoming X-59 Test Flights
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 5:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 19 to highlight plans for…
Siril image editor: One of the best pieces of open-source software available for astrophotographers
If you’re into astrophotography, you’ll reach a point where standard tools like Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop will only…
Week Wraps with Space Biology, Spacewalk Preps, and Space Station Reboost
Science hardware maintenance filled the day for the Expedition 74 crew following the release of two cargo spacecraft…
Life, But Not As We Know It
Here is a problem that has been quietly gnawing at astronomers for decades. The standard approach to detecting…
Our Sun and its twins fled the centre of the Galaxy 4 billion years ago. Otherwise, life may never have emerged on Earth
Our Sun was part of a mass migration of stars from the centre of our Galaxy 4–6 billion…
Timboy Chaco in the Mars borderlands photo of the day for March 16, 2026
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image of a pitted vertical rock face dubbed “Timboy Chaco” on March…
Celebrating 100 Years Since Goddard’s Breakthrough Moment in Modern Rocketry
From the voyages of spacecraft to the Moon and beyond, to the launches of satellites that help us…
Astronomers Think They Saw Two Planets Collide : ScienceAlert
A distant star whose light suddenly flickered like a guttering candle has led astronomers to a spectacular find.…
The first modern rocket launched 100 years ago, beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight
Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually…
For the First Time, Astronomers Discover Dry Ice in Dying Star Nebula
For the first time, astronomers have discovered dry ice (carbon dioxide ice) in a planetary nebula, shedding new…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Cracks Open Martian Rock, and Makes an Unbelievable Discovery
NASA’s Curiosity rover uncovered a remarkable surprise on Mars that could reshape our understanding of the planet’s geological…
A century after the first rocket launch, Ars staffers pick their favorites
Robert Goddard, a Massachusetts-born physicist, launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket on this date 100 years ago. It…