NASA tests confirm next-gen Mars rotors can safely break sound barrier
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has successfully tested new rotor blades that surpassed the sound barrier in simulated…
New measurements of Jupiter show its shape is shorter and flatter
A new study has redefined gas giant Jupiter’s dimensions. The study found that the planet is about 5…
Ringing the GONG: New Details About the Sun’s Far-side Activities
For years, when something happened on the far side of the Sun, it was invisible to us on…
After 6 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Rover Shows What Travel Did to Its Wheels in Ways No One Expected
A newly released time-lapse video from NASA’s Curiosity rover offers a rare glimpse into what six years of…
Moon’s deep interior may be buried beneath future Artemis landing site
More than four billion years ago, something enormous slammed into the moon hard enough to carve out a…
Anthropic recruited SpaceX’s 220,000-GPU Colossus 1 to fix what Claude users kept complaining about
Anthropic and SpaceX this week entered a new partnership, giving Anthropic access to the compute capacity of the…
Northrop Grumman advances solid rocket motor technology with series of rapid propulsion tests
Northrop Grumman has completed three company-funded static tests of solid rocket motors over the past five months, demonstrating…
Catch Stunning Views of Venus and Jupiter as They Align with the Crescent Moon in Mid-May
Bossco CC license via Flick. Jupiter and Venus will appear in a line with the waning crescent Moon…
James Webb telescope shows hellish, airless exoplanet 49 light-years away
WASHINGTON, May 8 — Astronomers have gotten their clearest look yet at the surface of an exoplanet —…
Catch the Northern Lights Tonight As a Stunning Solar Storm Could Illuminate the Night Sky!
A captivating celestial event is set to unfold once again, as NOAA forecasters predict heightened geomagnetic activity that…
The Dark Side of Living on the Moon? It Might Be the Other People.
That early April jaunt around the moon was supposed to represent a first step toward building a lunar…
The charred hull of Artemis 2’s Orion photo of the day for May 8, 2026
NASA’s Artemis 2 Orion capsule sits at the Kennedy Space Center, charred from its return journey through Earth’s…