Australia’s first female astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg invited to International Space Station
Australia’s first female astronaut is closer to her first space flight than ever before, but the trip is…
Many astronauts describe a quiet realization when they look down at Earth from orbit — that the borders and political lines we treat as permanent are invisible from above
NASA astronaut Christina Koch, a NASA astronaut selected for the Artemis II crew, has perhaps the cleanest description…
Redwire Delivers Argonaut Robotic Arm Prototype
Credit: Redwire US-based space technology company Redwire has delivered an initial prototype of a robotic arm that could…
Voyager 1’s famous Pale Blue Dot photograph was nearly never taken — Carl Sagan pushed NASA to turn the camera back toward Earth after the planetary mission was over, while engineers worried the Sun’s glare could damage the optics
On February 14, 1990, six billion kilometers from the sun, Voyager 1 swiveled around and took a photograph…
Scientists discover a giant “planet factory” beyond Jupiter
About 4.6 billion years ago, the young Sun was surrounded by a massive disk of gas and dust.…
Scientists found a hidden highway to the Moon, and it could make space travel much cheaper |
Getting to the moon is expensive. Every kilogram of fuel that a spacecraft carries has to be lifted…
Mysterious dust ring beyond Jupiter formed many of our Solar System’s earliest worlds
In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies…
A strange star system may be feeding the Milky Way’s black hole one cloud at a time
In 2012, astronomers spotted a strange blob of glowing gas spiraling toward the black hole at the center…
Full Moon June 2026: When To See The ‘Strawberry Micromoon’ Rise
Topline The full Strawberry Moon will turn full on Monday, June 29, 2026. Named for the traditional strawberry…
Scientists find a place where time moves backward
Physicists in South Africa ran the math on collapsing neutron stars and landed somewhere odd. Researchers from Durban…
Watch: Green Fireball Meteor Lights Up Erupting Mayon Volcano In Stunning Footage
A rare green fireball meteor was caught on camera streaking behind the erupting Mayon Volcano in the Philippines,…
The Arecibo message — humanity’s most famous deliberate radio message to another civilization — was aimed at a star cluster about 25,000 light-years away in 1974, meaning even an immediate reply would not reach Earth until around 52,000 CE
Imagine standing under a tent on a karst hillside in Puerto Rico, on an afternoon in November 1974,…