‘Footprints’ Photographed on the Surface of Mars by Curiosity Rover
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Curiosity Rover, which has been exploring the surface of Mars for the past 14 years, continues…
Newfound ‘Baby’ Planet Smashes Record for Youngest Known World
Astronomers have confirmed a world that’s less than a million years old as the youngest known planet, using…
‘Lost in Space’: Celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on his lavish new encyclopedia of the cosmos (interview)
Superstar astrophysicist, bestselling author, podcaster and ravenous consumer of pop culture Neil deGrasse Tyson has never been shy…
A sophisticated new model raised the Sun’s estimated silver abundance by 55%, shrinking its discrepancy with primitive meteorites from 0.25 to just 0.06 dex—and largely resolving a longstanding Solar System puzzle.
The Sun has not acquired any new silver. What has changed is the amount astronomers infer from two…
Isar Aerospace ready to begin commercial Spectrum launches
PARIS — German launch startup Isar Aerospace will begin commercial launches of its Spectrum rocket after a successful…
APOD: 2026 September 16 – Webb’s View of M64
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Saturn’s South Pole Features Newly Formed Atmospheric Decagon
The planet Saturn is arguably the most recognizable planetary object in the entire solar system because of its…
A scientist looked at ‘little red dots’ in the early Universe and found a black hole that shouldn’t exist
There’s something strange going on in the early Universe. The James Webb Space Telescope has peered so deep…
SpaceX’s Next Share Unlock Is Coming. History Says This Is What Happens Next.
Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX) went public in June and immediately became one of the market’s biggest battleground…
Hubble found a narrow ribbon of stars apparently stripped from a globular cluster in a galaxy 115 million light-years away—the first evidence of such a stream beyond the Milky Way, opening a new way to map dark matter in distant galaxies.
A narrow ribbon beside an ultra-diffuse galaxy has become the strongest evidence yet for a globular cluster stellar…
Purple Haze Aurora – NASA Science
One of the inspirations for Jimi Hendrix’s iconic 1967 hit “Purple Haze” is said to be the sci-fi…
Making rocket fuel out of Mars’ thin air: New breakthrough could make it happen
Astronauts could travel back to Earth from Mars using rocket fuel converted directly from the carbon dioxide in…