Re-Testing An Apollo Guidance Computer Module That Failed Certification Testing
After getting his hands on a rope driver module from the Apollo project era that had a big…
The Parker Solar Probe flies through the sun’s outer atmosphere behind a carbon shield eleven and a half centimetres thick, and the arrangement works so well that while the front face glows at almost fourteen hundred degrees, the instruments sitting a metre behind it stay at roughly the temperature of a comfortable living room
At its closest approaches, Parker Solar Probe passes about 6.2 million kilometres above the Sun’s visible surface. Sunlight…
Little Red Dots Could Be Ancient Globular Clusters, Each Dominated by a Super-Massive Star
Nobody knows where the phrase “Kill two birds with one stone” originated. But the fact that it—or a…
Trump admin exempts SpaceX’s Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers
The Trump administration today exempted SpaceX’s Starlink routers from the Federal Communications Commission ban on foreign-made routers. A…
NASA to Cover Three US Spacewalks, Host Preview News Conference
Editor’s note: This media advisory was updated July 27, 2026 to reflect an updated start time for the…
The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs had unexpected origins
A new study has found that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was a rare, dry type of…
Amendment 67: D.3 AGIGO: Change to IXPE and NICER General Observer Second Opportunity in ROSES-25
The IXPE GO Program solicits proposals for investigations in any area of astrophysics (not constrained to IXPE’s prime…
Amendment 68: New Opportunity: D.8 Habitable Worlds Observatory Precursor Science Investigations
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a large-aperture ultraviolet/visible/near-infrared observatory concept recommended by the National Academies of Science,…
NASA Science Soars During August Total Solar Eclipse
Each time the Moon covers the Sun during a total solar eclipse — darkening daytime skies and briefly…
We have more accurate maps of the surface of Mars and the Moon than of the floor of our own ocean — less than a third of the seabed has been measured in real detail, meaning most of the largest landscape on the planet has never been surveyed up close by a ship
There is a better elevation map of the Moon than of the floor of the Pacific. On 20…
How NASA Plans to Build the Habitable Worlds Observatory
We’ve been covering the journey of the Habitable Worlds Observatory for some time now. Over the past few…
Jodrell Bank Observatory facing closure after major funder cuts support | Astronomy
Jodrell Bank Observatory, the hub of a world-leading network of radio telescopes, is facing closure after government funding…