NASA plans unpiloted Starliner test flight after astronauts got stuck at space station in 2024
NASA is working with Boeing to launch an unpiloted Starliner capsule in the December-to-January time frame to test…
NASA’s Roman Telescope Opens Its 300-Megapixel Eye on the Universe
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully powered up its 300-megapixel Wide Field Instrument, a massive infrared…
Cassini Reveals Surprising Diversity in Salt Grains from Enceladus’ Ocean
A new analysis of nearly 1,000 ice grain measurements from Saturn’s E ring shows that Enceladus’ salty ocean…
New JPL satellite mission is burning through funds
The next phase of a highly successful satellite mission led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has burned through…
Artemis 2 Set Out to Prove Orion Could Handle Deep Space. Here’s How It Delivered
NASA is a 2026 Gizmodo Science Fair winner for the Orion spacecraft’s stellar performance during the Artemis 2…
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope test images – Boing Boing
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope test images Boing BoingNASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope glimpses its first cosmic light scientificamerican.comNASA just…
China gets closer to Jupiter mission by bringing Nasa’s StarNAV concept to life
Chinese researchers have tested a new way for spacecraft to navigate in deep space, putting a concept funded…
This cookie started as a plastic bottle — and might feed astronauts
This cookie is made using waste plant materials and plastic and could feed humans everywhere from submarines to…
Astronomers Expected More Tiny Worlds Beyond Neptune – Webb Found Something Else
This artist’s concept depicts a Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO), a small, faint, icy body orbiting the Sun beyond the…
People think Earth dies when the Sun becomes a red giant in five billion years — the more likely end is a billion years from now, when a star already 30 percent brighter than at birth pushes CO₂ too low for C3 plants, then a moist greenhouse strips the oceans of hydrogen and leaves a sterile Venus
The Sun is roughly 4.6 billion years old and about halfway through its main-sequence lifetime. The popular conception…
El Dorado County observatory celebrates 20 years with free view of the moon
El Dorado County observatory celebrates 20 years with free view of the moon Placerville’s Community Observatory marked its…
Scientists Discover New Crater on the Moon, Bigger Than the Roman Colosseum, That Was Created in a ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Impact
NEED TO KNOW Scientists have discovered a massive new crater on the moon that was created by a…