Milky Way at the dining table: Bath art show celebrates 18th-century brother and sister astronomers | Astronomy
From the garden of their Georgian townhouse in Bath in the late 18th century, a brother and sister…
Roman Space Telescope live updates: NASA begins spacecraft commissioning process
2026-09-04T16:23:34.369Z Roman finding its space legs Animation of the deployable aperture cover on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space…
Quiz of the week: how much data will NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope produce each day? – Physics World
Quiz of the week: how much data will NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope produce each day? – Physics…
How did the infant sun form? Scientists get surprising new insights from 4.6-billion-year-old space dust
New research suggests that dust from meteorites contains a “fossil record” dating back to the formation of the…
The 300-year-old tool helping stranded astronauts get home
For Mars missions, those navigational points may include asteroids, Holt says. “We would say [to the astronaut], we…
Scientists watch a comet being born 3 billion miles away
Astronomers have witnessed a small, icy body that orbits the sun out beyond Jupiter transforming into a comet,…
Tube Launch Boosts Rocket’s Performance
If you want improve a model rocket’s performance, all the common options come with serious trade-offs: you could…
Lafayette loop being resurrected to handle SpaceX traffic | News
Plans for a loop around Lafayette are being resurrected in part to handle traffic to the planned SpaceX…
For 57 years, the Arecibo Observatory’s 1,000-foot dish sat sunk into a Puerto Rican valley listening to the sky, and in December 2020, after cables holding its 900-ton instrument platform snapped one by one, the entire structure gave way and crashed straight through the reflector below.
Ángel Vázquez, the observatory’s director of telescope operations, was standing outside the control room on the morning of…
Deep beneath Mars, scientists find a vast hidden magma system
Researchers at the University of Oxford have found evidence that Mars may once have contained enormous Earth-like magmatic…
High-energy fuel passes first rotating detonation rocket engine test
CycloKinetics is testing its alternative rocket fuel with Venus Aerospace in a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE). The…
Cosmosphere announces additions to executive leadership team
Cosmosphere (Hutch Post photo) HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Cosmosphere has announced three additions to its executive leadership team…