Blue Origin’s next space tourism flight will break new ground for people with disabilities
Blue Origin is gearing up for its NS-37 flight, which will rocket six passengers to suborbital space and…
See photos of the December full moon, the last supermoon of 2025
See the last Supermoon of 2025 in views from around the world Supermoons occur when a new or…
Long Ago, Mars Had Massive Watersheds — Now Finally Mapped
What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the Red Planet’s watery past? This is what…
The ISS Is Out of Parking Spots for the First Time Ever. Here’s Why
It’s getting busy in low Earth orbit, with a record number of spaceships now attached to the International…
Voyager 2 Caught Uranus on a Bad Weather Day in 1986, Study Finds
When Voyager 2 made its historic flyby of Uranus in 1986, the spacecraft captured the best data humanity…
Senyar Swamps Sumatra – NASA Science
Tropical cyclones almost never form over the Strait of Malacca. The narrow waterway separating Peninsular Malaysia from the…
December’s ‘Cold Moon’ rises — See breathtaking images of the final full moon of 2025
The final full moon of 2025 treated stargazers to a high-flying lunar spectacle as the “Cold Moon” glowed…
Goodbye to the idea of a fully known Solar System—astronomers announce the discovery of a new moon that redefines our space maps
Sometimes it seems that we have already seen everything in the Solar System and that after decades of…
An Adolescent Growth Spurt In Young Stars Helps Giant Planets Form
Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these…
Rocket Report: Blunder at Baikonur; do launchers really need rocket engines?
The easiest way to keep up with Eric Berger’s and Stephen Clark’s reporting on all things space is…
Mars clocks run 477 microseconds faster than Earth’s; here is why future exploration must compensate for it
Planet Mars (Image source: Digital Vision) Clocks on Mars are about 477 microseconds faster than their counterparts on…
NASA Discovers Bacteria ‘Playing Dead’ to Survive Extreme Space Conditions
A recent study published in Microbiology Spectrum has uncovered groundbreaking insights into how certain bacteria can survive in…