LAGEOS: An Earth Science Mission Built for Enduring Precision
On May 4, 1976, a spacecraft resembling a disco ball entered orbit almost 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above…
Scientists Reveal Two Previously Unknown Minerals Hidden Deep In Lunar Dust Samples
A microscopic discovery inside Moon dust returned by China’s Chang’e 5 mission is reshaping how scientists understand the…
Asteroid Apophis to pass Earth in 2029 with no impact risk, NASA says
NASA administrator Jared Isaacman discusses Artemis II mission and future of space exploration NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman joins…
Moon’s Formation In Many Ways Still Remains A Mystery
A half century after NASA’s Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the Moon’s northeastern near side quadrant, planetary…
Our Milky Way’s ‘Zone of Avoidance’ holds a galaxy supercluster with 30,000 trillion times the sun’s mass
An enormous supercluster made up from over 20 individual galaxy clusters hiding behind our dusty Milky Way is…
STMicro targets more than $3 billion in space chip revenue as demand grows
By Nathan Vifflin May 4 (Reuters) – STMicroelectronics is targeting well above $3 billion in cumulative revenue for…
We Might Have Massively Underestimated Io’s Thermal Output
Io is a world of extremes. It is by far the most volcanically active world in our solar…
Lunar Resource-Seeking Technologies
To support long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA and industry are developing technologies that can extract…
Blue Origin Moon Lander Completes Testing at NASA Vacuum Chamber
Also known as Endurance, MK1 is an uncrewed cargo lander funded by Blue Origin as a commercial demonstration…
James Webb Space Telescope directly studies an exoplanet’s surface for the 1st time: ‘We see a dark, hot, barren rock’
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have, for the first time, directly analyzed the surface of a…
Watch the Eta Aquarid meteor shower online with these free livestreams
It’s meteor season once again, skywatchers! The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks in the early hours of May…
Astronomers believe they’ve detected an atmosphere around a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto
A new study suggests that a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto harbors a thin, delicate atmosphere that may…