Cosmic Voids May Contain the Universe’s Best Secrets
Nature abhors a vacuum, so the saying goes, but nobody told the universe. Space is filled with cosmic…
The Milky Way is a cosmic cannibal. Stars reveal one of its meals
Summary Astronomers have identified 20 unusual metal-poor stars near the Milky Way’s disk that may represent remnants of…
SpaceX launches its biggest Starship yet on a test flight : NPR
SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Friday, May 22, 2026. Eric Gay/AP hide…
Rocket Lab launches private Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit (video)
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The moon will ‘swallow’ a star on May 23. But will you be able to see it?
Skywatchers across parts of the Pacific will see the moon pass in front of the bright star Regulus…
Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice less than a minute after launch, and the mission kept going only because a flight controller recognised an obscure telemetry failure pattern and told the crew to flip a switch almost nobody else in the room understood
The core of this story holds up. On 14 November 1969, the Saturn V carrying Apollo 12 was…
A Colorado startup just raised $30 million to send a second rover to the Moon — and the real bet isn’t on exploration, it’s on becoming the construction crew that arrives before the astronauts do
Lunar Outpost has secured $30 million in Series B funding as the Colorado company tries to move from…
NASA’S Juno Makes Closest Ever Approach To Jupiter’s Moon Of Thebe
NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter and its moons has made the closest ever approach of only 5000km to…
The Apollo astronauts left mirrors on the Moon that scientists still bounce lasers off 57 years later, and the round-trip measurement is precise enough to track the Moon drifting away from Earth at the speed your fingernails grow
On a quiet night at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, a pulse of green laser light…
Call for Creatives: NASA Seeks Help Illuminating Mission Storytelling
As NASA pushes the boundaries of exploration and innovation for the benefit of humanity, the agency is looking…
A slice of the static on an old untuned television was the afterglow of the Big Bang, which means millions of people spent decades staring at the oldest light in the universe without knowing it.
The claim is true, though the version of it that gets repeated most often is softer than it…
An ancient solar storm left clues in tree rings and a famous poet’s diary: ‘Red lights in the northern sky’
The solar cycle was several years shorter and the sun was experiencing an unusually active phase at the…