Companies like SpaceX want electromagnetic catapults on the moon. Could they be used as weapons?
A new report stresses the strategic and security implications of placing mass drivers on the moon — essentially…
JWST Studies a Dark and Airless Super-Earth
There’s a planet out there called LHS 3844 b, orbiting a star about 48 light-years away. The Transiting…
NASA Astronaut Andrew Morgan Retires
May 28, 2026 After a 12-year career at NASA, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Andrew R. Morgan has retired…
NASA Uses Mineralogical Marker to Understand Ancient Martian Climate
While NASA imagery has shown evidence of ancient rivers and lakes on Mars that transitioned to dry dunes,…
The Name N159 Doesn’t Do This Brilliant Star-Forming Region Justice
The N159 star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud is a stunning example of an active star formation…
James Webb Space Telescope discovers a black hole that formed before its host galaxy
Observations of ancient galaxies called “Little Red Dots” by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could finally answer…
Attack Of The Atomic Oxygen
While designing anything for operation in space has its challenges, there is at least one thing that is…
SpaceX is planning a human mission to Mars with a familiar face
Lest you think that billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has put his dreams of sending humans to Mars on…
What’s next for SpaceX’s Starship V3 megarocket after its historic debut flight?
SpaceX’s next-gen Starship megarocket finally got off the ground last week. On May 22, SpaceX’s first Starship V3…
Chandrayaan-2 finds strong evidence for ice in ‘doubly-shadowed’ lunar craters
Chandrayaan-2 finds strong evidence for ice in ‘doubly-shadowed’ lunar craters BENGALURU: Scientists working with India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft have…
In 1965, a 30-year-old cosmonaut named Alexei Leonov became the first human to walk in space — and somewhere in the middle of the live broadcast, while the world was watching the Soviet Union’s greatest propaganda triumph, mission control quietly cut the feed, for reasons that wouldn’t be publicly known for almost thirty years
On 18 March 1965, at 07:00 GMT, the Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 2 lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying…
NASA’s Roman Mission Preps to Unveil New Populations of Faraway Worlds
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds…