Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This “twin” of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion
Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This “twin” of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion
Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — DARPA is seeking proposals for a small lunar orbiter that
SpaceX continues its steady pace of Starlink launches, ever growing the company’s orbital internet constellation. A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX‘s Starlink 6-74 mission Thursday night, April 24, out of
The Borderlands universe has grown massively, from a first-person looter-shooter video game into an immense sci-fi sandbox. Now, as we’re preparing for Borderlands 4‘s big arrival later in 2025, we’ve
China’s latest astronaut crew has reached its orbital destination. The three-person Shenzhou 20 mission arrived at China’s Tiangong space station today (April 24) at 11:49 a.m. EDT (1549 GMT), beginning
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Free-floating planets comprise one of the most enigmatic populations of exoplanets in the Galaxy. Though ground-based observations point to a large abundance of these worlds,
A flag that flew to the moon, a cookie from Cookie Monster and the set list for an upcoming music tour are now all space artifacts, having briefly left the
Data visualization of the sun as seen from Apollo 16’s lunar landing site. A new experiment, using moon dust collected on the Apollo 17 mission, has found evidence that the
The combination of theoretical models and empirical data provides a new perspective for understanding the complex interactions between young stars and their environments. Credit: Paolo Padoan, Liubin Pan, Veli-Matti Pelkonen,
Earth’s minimoon may be a chip off the old block: New research suggests that 2024 PT5 — a small, rocky body dubbed a “minimoon” during its discovery last year —