SSpace Read More NASA Is Helping Bring Giant Tortoises Back to the GalápagosFebruary 21, 2026 For the first time in more than 150 years, giant tortoises are returning to the wild on Floreana…
SSpace Read More Saturn’s largest moon may actually be 2 moons in 1 — and helped birth the planet’s iconic ringsFebruary 21, 2026 Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may be made of two different moons that smashed together hundreds of millions of…
SSpace Read More The Optical Engineering Required to Photograph an Earth TwinFebruary 21, 2026 More and more papers are coming out about the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). As the telescope moves…
SSpace Read More Ask Ethan: Will anything persist when the Universe dies?February 21, 2026 If we’re willing to think about the future, the farther ahead we extrapolate, the farther along the inevitable…
SSpace Read More Radio Hunt Across 124 Light-Years Ends With a Striking DiscoveryFebruary 21, 2026 A coordinated search using two major radio observatories has found no evidence of artificial radio transmissions from the…
SSpace Read More Earth from Space: Ouarzazate, MoroccoFebruary 21, 2026 The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over south-central Morocco, near the city of Ouarzazate. Zoom in or click…
SSpace Read More Searching Out Missing Links in Galaxy EvolutionFebruary 21, 2026 How do galaxies evolve? When did they start forming? Those are questions astronomers and cosmologists are working to…
SSpace Read More After fueling test, optimism grows for March launch of Artemis II to the MoonFebruary 21, 2026 A second fueling test on NASA’s Space Launch System rocket ended Thursday night, giving senior managers enough confidence…
SSpace Read More The stellar lifecycle in a nearby spiralFebruary 21, 2026 Two powerful instruments of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope joined forces to create this scenic galaxy view…
SSpace Read More Supermassive serial killers: Astronomers discover how black holes ‘kill off’ neighboring galaxiesFebruary 21, 2026 Scientists have long suspected that active supermassive black holes can kill their own host galaxies, but new research…
SSpace Read More NASA X-ray spacecraft stares into the ‘eye of the storm’ swirling around supermassive black holesFebruary 21, 2026 Scientists have dived deeper into the “eye of the storm” swirling around supermassive black holes than ever before.…
SSpace Read More Gaia Detected an Entire Swarm of Black Holes Traveling Through The Milky WayFebruary 21, 2026 A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a…