Space launch costs could fall 90% by 2040
Getting something into space has always been incredibly expensive. Every extra pound of equipment has come with a…
Rocket Lab’s Latest Deal Puts It on a Collision Course With SpaceX
The share prices of space economy stocks may be sinking, but that does not make the sector any…
NASA satellites reveal dramatic changes in Earth’s nighttime lights
Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features a planet that is changing after dark. New…
Voyager 1 is still crossing interstellar space with six computers holding about 68 kilobytes of memory between them — less storage than a single compressed photograph on a modern phone
Voyager 1 carries six flight-computer units designed in the early 1970s, and NASA’s own accounting puts their combined…
Rocket Lab’s Latest Deal Puts It on a Collision Course With SpaceX
The share prices of space economy stocks may be sinking, but that does not make the sector any…
In 1980, Voyager 1 flew close enough to Titan to reveal its thick nitrogen atmosphere — but the gravity-assist geometry bent the spacecraft permanently out of the planetary plane, trading Uranus and Neptune for one close look at Saturn’s largest moon
On 12 November 1980, Voyager 1 passed 6,490 kilometres from Titan’s centre, about 3,900 kilometres above the moon’s…
The lines etched into Voyager’s Golden Record cover point towards 14 pulsars whose spinning clocks reveal both where the Sun is and roughly when the spacecraft left — directions designed to work without relying on a single human language
The starburst etched into the lower-left corner of Voyager’s Golden Record cover is neither decoration nor a picture…
10 places in the US and Canada to see August’s partial solar eclipse and Perseid meteor shower in 1 trip
Aug. 12, 2026, offers a rare double-header for skywatchers across northeastern North America: a partial solar eclipse during…
A tiny universe in a bottle reveals clues to the origins of life
A PhD student in Sydney has produced cosmic dust from scratch by recreating a small piece of the…
James Webb Space Telescope discovers how black holes feed themselves
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have been given a glimpse of the mechanisms that…
‘Stuart Fails to Save the Universe’ brings familiar faces
Similarly, “Stuart’s” stars were eager to step into the spotlight. On “Big Bang,” Sussman’s Stuart frequently milled in…
Two asteroids receive unprecedented visits from space probes in a single week | Science
It’s strange how we get used to what was once extraordinary. At the start of July, two spacecraft…