Hubble Telescope sees spectacular ‘superbubble’ photo of the day for Sept. 4, 2026
This nebula is named LHA 120-N44, or N44 for short, and it’s located in the constellation Dorado. (Image…
Quiz of the week: how much data will NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope produce each day? – Physics World
Quiz of the week: how much data will NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope produce each day? – Physics…
Bath show highlights sibling finds – and England’s first paid female astronomer | Astronomy
From the garden of their Georgian townhouse in Bath in the late 18th century, a brother and sister…
How did the infant sun form? Scientists get surprising new insights from 4.6-billion-year-old space dust
New research suggests that dust from meteorites contains a “fossil record” dating back to the formation of the…
Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO
Unleashing Starlink V3… The orbital flight will allow SpaceX to deploy operational payloads. A batch of SpaceX’s next-generation…
The 300-year-old tool helping stranded astronauts get home
For Mars missions, those navigational points may include asteroids, Holt says. “We would say [to the astronaut], we…
Scientists watch a comet being born 3 billion miles away
Astronomers have witnessed a small, icy body that orbits the sun out beyond Jupiter transforming into a comet,…
Tube Launch Boosts Rocket’s Performance
If you want improve a model rocket’s performance, all the common options come with serious trade-offs: you could…
JWST Captures Stunning Evidence of How Supermassive Black Holes Feed
An image of elliptical galaxy NGC4696 located at the center of the Centaurus Cluster taken by the Hubble…
Comet McNaught put on a surprise show this summer: Here’s how to spot it before it fades
Comet 220P/McNaught has already put on an unexpectedly impressive show this summer as two dramatic outbursts of activity…
Deep beneath Mars, scientists find a vast hidden magma system
Researchers at the University of Oxford have found evidence that Mars may once have contained enormous Earth-like magmatic…
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area
science Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 2028 The Titan dune field where NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will land…