How a huge fleet of 17 spacecraft discovered something surprising about solar eruptions
A misbehaving coronal mass ejection (CME) that blew out a hidden cloud of charged particles aimed at Earth…
Apollo 12 astronauts returned from the moon so filthy that their pilot made them strip before entering his spacecraft; dust stayed under their nails for weeks |
Portrait of the prime crew of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission. From left to right, they are…
Launching 10,000 tiny ‘femtosats’ to Saturn? NASA funds 18 futuristic spaceflight ideas
NASA is giving a financial boost to nearly 20 technology investigations to help fuel the incubation of tomorrow’s…
In 1969, an astronaut pointed Apollo 12’s camera at the sun and accidentally killed the live moon broadcast |
Imagine finally getting a colour television camera onto the Moon, knowing millions of people back on Earth were…
A microwave-oven-sized experiment inside NASA’s Perseverance rover made history in 2021 by extracting oxygen from Mars’s carbon-dioxide atmosphere—the first demonstration of producing a usable resource from the environment of another planet.
On 20 April 2021, one day after a helicopter made the first powered flight on another world, a…
Apollo 15 astronauts collected tiny green glass beads from the Moon in 1971; more than 35 years later scientists found evidence of water inside, changing what we knew about the lunar interior
Representative Image (Image Credit: Canva) In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin noticed something unusual…
Visible planets and night sky guide for August
Mercury soon to go behind sun This image is from the sun-observing SOHO spacecraft. It’s showing activity around the sun…
“I Jumped From My Chair” – Astronomers Discover a Hidden Star Orbiting Betelgeuse
This image shows the location of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter).…
Chinese radio-frequency intelligence startup StarRF closes new funding round
HELSINKI — A Chinese startup building a constellation to detect and geolocate radio-frequency emissions from orbit has closed…
Titan is the only place besides Earth with stable liquid on its surface, a working weather cycle and complex organic chemistry — and now, according to 2025 NASA research, a plausible mechanism for building the first membrane around a primitive cell, without liquid water involved.
Titan has an unusual way of making an alien landscape feel familiar. Clouds gather. Rain falls. Rivers cut…
APOD: 2026 August 22 – Mostly Perseids
Explanation: Recorded the night of August 12-13, images from four dedicated meteor-monitoring cameras at an astronomical observatory in…
NASA Cancels Its Rescue Mission for the Aging Swift Telescope
The Swift space observatory has been in operation since 2004. It specializes in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most…