What is asteroid mining and how close are we to making it a reality?
The solar system is far more richly endowed by resources than everyday experience might suggest. You must have…
The last probe orbiting Venus has just shut down, and that’s not good news
Venus is often considered to be the twin of Earth, notably due to certain similarities. But for the…
US government grapples with questions about interstellar object 3I/ATLAS amid shutdown
Notwithstanding major disruptions from the U.S. government shutdown, federal personnel are monitoring the rare interstellar comet known as…
3 Things to Know About New Glenn’s Second Launch
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin is gearing up for the second launch of New Glenn. The megarocket is scheduled…
Earth Now Has “Two Moons” Until 2083, NASA Confirms
Photo: Stephen Rahn via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) NASA has confirmed that a little asteroid named 2025 PN7…
International Space Station nears its end. Inside NASA’s plan
Plans are underway to determine how best in the years ahead to retire and deorbit the aging International…
China and the US race to the Moon – but first, Musk vs. Bezos
The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans…
Hubble Space Telescope Snaps New Image of NGC 4102
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a luminous galactic center and majestic spiral arms in this new view…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope maps 400-light-year-distant planet in 3D, revealing heat so extreme it breaks water apart
An artistic depiction of the WASP-18b exoplanet (Image source: NASA) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has mapped the…
A New Image of the Red Spider Nebula Captures the Radiance of a Dying Star — Colossal
When viewed through early telescopes, some nebula appeared round, so astronomers in the 18th and 19th centuries likened…
On the eve of the ISS’s 25th anniversary, humanity stares down a gap in its presence in space
On Nov. 2, 2000, the Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft docked with the Zvezda module of the International Space Station.…
