NASA selects CU Boulder mission to study space weather around Earth
NASA has selected a mission concept led by the University of Colorado Boulder to study Earth’s space weather…
SpaceX Given Poorest Sustainability Rating Possible
Topline Index provider MSCI awarded SpaceX the lowest possible environmental, social and governance (ESG) rating, ranking Elon Musk’s…
NASA’s Webb Finds Clues to Ancient, Distant Origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS
As interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS began moving away from the Sun in December 2025, astronomers took the opportunity to…
James Webb Space Telescope captures the star-forming clouds of Orion A
The James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month shows the giant molecular cloud Orion A, an area…
Summer Solstice Sunrise and other Boulder events on Monday
Today Summer Solstice Sunrise: 7 a.m., Sunrise Ampitheater, 1198 Flagstaff Drive, Boulder. Join Yoga Pearl for the fourth…
Astroscale raises funding to support growth strategy
WASHINGTON — Satellite servicing company Astroscale is working to transition from technology demonstrations to a regular series of…
Seven Spectacular Stargazing Events To See This Summer
The Great North American Eclipse is seen using seven interval timer photos to show the full evolution of…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Has Traveled The Distance Of A Marathon On Mars
It did so in just five years.
NASA JPL Perseverance is officially a marathon…
UPDATE: SpaceX rocket launches Sunday morning from Vandenberg Space Force Base
UPDATE: Sunday, June 21 9:45 a.m. – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force…
In December 2024 a NASA spacecraft flew straight into the Sun’s outer atmosphere at 430,000 miles per hour, the fastest any human-made object has ever moved, through a region millions of degrees hot — and survived because a 4.5-inch carbon shield kept everything behind it at roughly room temperature.
It has been almost eight years since launch, and NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is still one of the…
A space telescope that has spent 22 years detecting the most powerful explosions in the universe is now falling toward Earth, and a startup in Arizona built its rescue craft in seven months flat — a schedule Science described as almost unheard of for a NASA mission
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has spent more than two decades watching for gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful…
For a decade the Pink Planet was too faint for any ground telescope to study — and when James Webb finally caught its spectrum, the best fit to the light was an atmosphere hazed with salt clouds
For more than a decade, one of the coldest worlds ever photographed around another star kept slipping out…