Get ready to explore the Red Planet — our dusty, windswept neighbor that’s captured human imagination for centuries. Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and a top contender
Get ready to explore the Red Planet — our dusty, windswept neighbor that’s captured human imagination for centuries. Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and a top contender
The slender crescent moon will be positioned close to the bright star Spica at sunset on Aug. 27, but you’ll have to be quick to catch a glimpse of the
In 2025, the European Space Agency will host a series of Open Days across its major establishments in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. These events offer visitors a unique
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Starlink 7-14 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is preparing for its 37th Falcon 9 rocket
Asteroids floating through our solar system are debris left over from when our planetary neighborhood formed 4.6 billion years ago. Scientists study these ancient fragments as time capsules that reveal
Near the center of this image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory lies the pulsar B1509-58, a rapidly spinning neutron star that is only about 12 miles in diameter. This tiny
Scientists have developed a better model to understand “steam worlds,” which are planets smaller than Neptune and larger than Earth that are too hot to have liquid water at their
SpaceX shared stunning photos of its Falcon 9 rocket carrying the U.S. Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane into orbit last week. The pictures capture the nighttime launch on Aug.
Illustration of the soot line and water ice line structure of protoplanetary disks, and the three chemically distinct planet archetypes. — astro-ph.EP Some low-density exoplanets are thought to be water-rich
Spectrally integrated flux maps for 3I/ATLAS observed using JWST NIRSpec: (a) scattered light from coma dust at ∼ 1.2 µm, plotted on a logarithmic scale to highlight the coma shape,