Jellyfish Nebula was part of a binary star system, and both went supernova
Two enormous stars once circled each other, forming a binary star system about 5,900 light-years from Earth. One…
Sending repurposed Mars rover to the moon could cost more than $1 billion
WASHINGTON — Converting an engineering model of a Mars rover into an actual lunar rover could cost NASA…
AST SpaceMobile Locks In Next Launch For Its Mega Satellites
Space start-up AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ:ASTS) has announced Aug. 5 as the date of its next launch and satellite…
3 Ways to Get Space Economy Exposure Without Buying SpaceX Stock
Few stocks offer as much exposure to the space economy as Space Exploration Technologies. The company — commonly…
NASA is sending 2 probes to the moon to test complex ‘three-body orbits’
NASA is planning to send two maneuverable probes to lunar orbit in order to learn how spacecraft are…
NASA Opens New Flight Dynamics Research Facility in Virginia
NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility, Friday, providing a critical resource for the…
APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
Explanation: The Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars toward the small constellation…
Night sky August 2026 — What you can see tonight
The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can…
‘We are not giving up yet’: Private mission to rescue NASA’s Swift telescope is spinning out of control, and engineers are racing to fix it
A private mission to rescue an ailing NASA space telescope may now need a rescue of its own.…
Our recommendations for safe solar eclipse glasses for the Aug. 12, 2026 eclipse
Looking forward to the 2026 solar eclipse, happening on Aug. 12? I know I am and even though…
What happens to a moon when its planet is stolen?
We have known for a while that the Milky Way is full of homeless worlds. Rogue planets, free…
Huygens took around 700 pictures on its way down through Titan in 2005, and we have half of them, because a single command was missing from Cassini’s instructions — one of the two radio channels was never switched on, and roughly 350 images were lost
Most ways a space mission can fail are dramatic. A rocket explodes. A lander tips over. A heat…