How asteroids may have sparked life on Earth
Scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have taken a new look at Earth’s violent beginnings and found that…
A fully built, fully tested lunar rover named VIPER faced dismantlement for parts after its 2024 cancellation, and NASA is now considering sending a Mars engineering testbed that has spent its working life in a JPL rock yard to the Moon instead
NASA announced on June 30, 2026, that it is considering sending PROMISE, an engineering test rover built at…
America at 250, Seen from Space
The mosaic stretches from the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest to the Everglades of Florida, and from the…
Dan Ives Just Gave Elon Musk and SpaceX Some Great News
Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ:SPCX) and its record-setting IPO have arguably been the biggest story in the stock market…
This weird ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanet has a hotspot in the wrong place, and astronomers aren’t sure how
Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in the universe, blazing gas giants like Jupiter or…
In 2024, engineers rescued Voyager 1 after it spent months transmitting gibberish, remotely rewriting and relocating pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip from more than 24 billion kilometres away.
In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense. Voyager 1,…
Astronomers Find Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Just 25 Light-Years Away
Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet about twice Earth’s size just 25 light-years away, orbiting in the habitable…
From pureed meals to fresh greens: how space food is advancing to keep astronauts healthy
The Artemis II mission to the Moon has reignited humanity’s desire for exploration and renewed our perspective of…
Eyes to the Skies: Creating a custom star chart and viewing the Milky Way in July
Each month WTOP’s “Eyes to the Skies” feature previews the best the sky has to offer stargazers regarding…
The growing number of satellites in orbit could soon make telescopes obsolete. ‘For astronomy, this would obviously be catastrophic’
If the number of satellites in Earth’s orbit exceeds 100,000, humanity may lose its ability to study the…
Musk Calls Reporting on SpaceX Prototype AI Device ‘Utterly False’
Topline SpaceX CEO Elon Musk called a recent report the company showed investors a prototype handheld, iPhone-like device…
What makes a star a star? A strange ‘in-between’ celestial object is testing astronomers’ boundaries
Around 1,350 light years away from Earth is a star called TOI-2155. It’s a little bigger, heavier and…