Artemis II heat shield aced its blistering reentry, ghostly underwater photo reveals
Artemis II aced its trial-by-fire reentry, despite some concerns that the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield would not hold…
James Webb Space Telescope peers into a dying star surrounded by mysterious buckyballs
The spectacular birthplace of weird carbon molecules known as “buckyballs” came to light in new imagery of a…
NASA’s Chandra Finds Young Stars Dim Quickly
These images, released on April 14, 2026, show two open star clusters, Trumpler 3 (left) and NGC 2353…
Eight months early and under budget, the Roman Telescope is ready to launch
Scientifically, it will be used to image exoplanets in distant orbits from their stars. But it also serves…
Nebula sparkles in new Hubble snapshot photo of the day for April 23, 2026
This image of the Trifid Nebula was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope 29 years after the telescope…
Forget chemical rockets: How AI is engineering the nuclear engines that will take us to Mars
Forget chemical rockets: How AI is engineering the nuclear engines that will take us to Mars – Futura-Sciences…
Comet 3I/ATLAS was born in a region of the Galaxy vastly different from our Solar System, billions of years ago
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was born in a distant corner of our Galaxy, in a region that’s vastly…
NASA Spots a Massive Pink Heart in Argentina from Space Nearly 10 Kilometers Across. Its Color Has a Much Darker Origin than Romance
An astronaut looking down from the International Space Station captured a near-perfect pink heart sprawled across the Argentine…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Spots Strange Fish-Scale Patterns on Mars
While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of…
Night and (Earth) Day – NASA
This image, released in celebration of Earth Day, shows the terminator – the line between night and day…
Two Worlds Where the Sun Never Moves
Imagine a world where the Sun never rises and never sets! It feels like that here in the…
Rocket Lab launches Japanese ‘origami’ satellite, 7 other spacecraft to orbit (photos)
Rocket Lab sent eight Japanese satellites to orbit from New Zealand on Wednesday night (April 22), including one…