The galaxy has an exoplanet size mystery, and NASA’s EVE mission wants to solve it
Mankind venturing into space ended up creating more questions than it answered, and one of the dilemmas is…
MIT’s new rocket system could help tiny satellites travel all the way to Mars |
Small satellites called CubeSats are cheap to build and easy to launch, but they have one big problem.…
Chinese team flags life-threatening ‘glaring weakness’ in Nasa’s Artemis programme
China and the United States are answering this in contrasting ways. Their answers could reveal the value they…
MIT’s New Dual-Mode Rocket System Could Send Tiny Satellites to Mars
These four flight unit electrospray thrusters were delivered by MIT Space Propulsion Laboratory to NASA for the upcoming…
A supernova remnant may have been discovered in the Milky Way
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the supernova SN 1993J. Thanks to the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers…
A Commercial Space Race Prompts a Thorny Question: Who Owns the Sky?
The starry night sky has always anchored humanity’s sense of place in a vast universe. It’s a map…
Astronomers May Have Found Supernova Remnant near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers identified a possible remnant of ancient stellar explosion…
Katalyst mission to boost Swift spacecraft’s orbit
NASA has outlined plans for a robotic servicing attempt intended to raise the orbit of the agency’s Neil…
ESA astronaut assignment on Artemis 3 part of negotiations on revised Artemis roles
WASHINGTON — The assignment of a European Space Agency astronaut to the Artemis 3 mission is part of…
Hubble photographs spiral galaxy with black hole 100 million times the sun’s mass
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 88. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker) A…
Jupiter Accelerates Electrons to Near-Light Speed, Offering Clues to Cosmic Ray Origins
The giant planet’s bow shock isn’t just deflecting the solar wind, it’s acting as a powerful particle accelerator,…
Astronomers detect winds from a black hole reaching 30% of the speed of light
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing two black holes. Recently, astronomers have detected powerful winds in a…