NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could last more than twice as long as planned
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may be able to operate for far longer than originally expected. An…
NASA’s Moon orbiter finds a 728-foot crater that wasn’t there before
A routine check of NASA lunar data unexpectedly led to a major discovery. Robert Wagner, a scientist who…
A NASA Scientist Found a Huge New Crater on the Moon by Accident
The moon has more than 2 million craters on its surface, but the overwhelming majority of the big…
APOD: 2026 September 18 – Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy
Explanation: The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, Messier 33. Its popular names include…
Questions over £4.5m Keighley space centre funding approval
Opposition parties are questioning why £4.5m of public regeneration money is needed to support a US-owned space testing…
Astronomers Detect a Faint Hydrogen Signal From Billions of Light-Years Away
A faint hydrogen signal from billions of light-years away could help astronomers build a new 3D map of…
NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 35th Resupply Launch to Space Station
Media accreditation is open for the next cargo launch that will deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment…
Two identical satellites fly 220 kilometers apart above the Earth, firing a laser between them precisely enough to notice a change in distance smaller than the width of a red blood cell, and that flicker is how scientists now weigh the water moving beneath entire continents
Here’s the conclusion first, because it’s the part that still doesn’t feel like it should be possible: nobody…
‘I’m so looking forward to seeing nature again’: SpaceX’s Crew-12 astronauts gearing up for trip home to Earth
Leaving the International Space Station will be bittersweet for its outgoing crew, who’ve been living aboard the orbital…
On this day in space! Sept. 17, 1789: Astronomer William Herschel discovers Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ moon Mimas
On Sept. 17, 1789, the British astronomer William Herschel discovered Saturn’s “Death Star” moon, Mimas. Of course, “Star…
A Zombie White Dwarf Star is Born Again. Hallelujah!
Stars go through a host of changes as they evolve, but most of the time, those changes play…
SpaceX pushes next Starship launch back to Sept. 28, a 6-day delay for megarocket’s 1st orbital flight
SpaceX has pushed the next launch of its Starship megarocket back by nearly a week. SpaceX had originally…