NASA Confirms Asteroid 2024 YR4 Will Fly Past The Moon : ScienceAlert
Here’s one less thing to worry about – or to look forward to: NASA has ruled out any…
Sierra Space Closes $550 Million in Series C Round, with a Valuation of $8 Billion
LOUISVILLE, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sierra Space Corporation, an industry-leading defense-tech space company delivering solutions for the nation’s critical missions, announced…
Life could survive being blasted through space to another planet
Tiny organisms hidden inside rocks blasted off a planet by an asteroid impact might survive both the violent…
Unlocking AI in space: the case for greater industry and space agency collaboration
For decades, space has served as humanity’s most demanding testing laboratory, where only the most resilient technologies survive…
Researchers Test Mars Soil on One of Earth’s Toughest Creatures, The Reaction Was Unexpected
Mars may already possess a built-in defense against contamination from Earth. Experiments using simulated Martian soil show that…
New image of the Milky Way reveals how stars are born
Scientists have captured the most complete, high-resolution map of the cold gas at the center of the Milky…
A Solar Superstorm Blasted Mars—and Its Atmosphere Freaked Out
When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest…
European Engineers Scraped SpaceX Flight Data to Design a Wild Winged Rival to Starship
Illustration of the proposed RLV C5. Credit: DLR. Spaceflight entered a new era the moment a stainless-steel tower…
James Webb Telescope updates odds that ‘city killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit the moon
The moon will officially be spared from an explosive encounter with a “city-killer” asteroid in 2032, new observations…
March is a great time to spot the odd glow of zodiacal light. Here’s how to see it
Look to the western sky around sunset on the nights surrounding the spring equinox this month and you…
Why are some stars always visible while others come and go with the seasons?
As a space scientist, every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look…
Half of Mars used to be underwater. Scientists find evidence of enormous Martian ocean
Mars was once a ‘blue planet’, with a massive ocean covering approximately half of the Martian surface, a…