What is the blue-white star next to the moon on May 26?
Look to the southern sky at sunset on May 26 to see the waxing gibbous moon shining close…
In 1995, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft sent a probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere that kept transmitting for just 58 minutes as it fell, returning the first direct readings from inside the giant planet before rising heat and pressure silenced it for good
On 7 December 1995, a small probe released by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft entered the atmosphere of Jupiter and…
A dazzling new galaxy image stuns astronomers with its blinding cosmic heart
A dazzling new galaxy image stuns astronomers with its blinding cosmic heart – Futura-Sciences May 25, 2026 3…
A million people on Mars, a billion SpaceX shares: Inside Elon Musk’s peculiar performance-based bonuses
When SpaceX released its investor prospectus last week, it revealed an unusual condition in the compensation deal for…
The Arecibo message — humanity’s most famous deliberate radio message to another civilization — was aimed at a star cluster about 25,000 light-years away in 1974, meaning even an immediate reply would not reach Earth until around 52,000 CE
Imagine standing under a tent on a karst hillside in Puerto Rico, on an afternoon in November 1974,…
Elon Musk’s best friend could make $100 billion on SpaceX. His firm is also owed billions
His name is Antonio Gracias, a handsome private equity investor from Detroit. The two met through the Silicon…
NASA is building a nuclear reactor for the Moon by 2030 — and testing the nuclear propulsion that could carry humans to Mars in the decade after — under a new directive that revives a space-nuclear ambition the agency has been quietly chasing since Apollo
NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy announced, on January 13, 2026, that they had signed a memorandum…
Memorial Day SpaceX rocket launch from Cape Canaveral. What to know before liftoff. – Florida Today
Memorial Day SpaceX rocket launch from Cape Canaveral. What to know before liftoff. Florida TodaySpaceX rocket launch in Florida…
A Probe Took Incredible Pictures of Mars on Its Way to a Far-Off Asteroid
The Psyche probe, launched in October 2023 on its way to the metallic asteroid it studies, recently performed…
Evidence of ancient life has just been found buried inside an asteroid crater — and the discovery suggests the warm lakes created by major impacts may have been some of the original cradles of life on Earth
The standard cultural framing of where life on Earth originated has, for most of the last several decades,…
What Are Those Two Bright Stars In The West After Sunset?
Jupiter and Venus create spectacle view as they appeard extremely close on March 2, 2023 (Photo by Nicolas…
Jupiter’s Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, may be heating up
Jupiter’s giant moon Ganymede is the only known moon to have its own magnetic field — and it…