View larger. | Artist’s concept of the exoplanet – a world orbiting a distant star – called GJ 1214 b. Previously thought to be a watery “super-Earth,” or a mini-Neptune
View larger. | Artist’s concept of the exoplanet – a world orbiting a distant star – called GJ 1214 b. Previously thought to be a watery “super-Earth,” or a mini-Neptune
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered distant, overly massive supermassive black holes in the early universe. The black holes seem way too massive compared to the
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:06 p.m. EDT on Monday, Oct.
Polaris Dawn Commander Jared Isaacman sits down with Matt Anderson, the chief growth officer for the Space Force Association, during the second annual Spacepower Conference to discuss human spaceflight. Image:
SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on the Starlink 12-5 mission on Dec. 8, 2024. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now SpaceX launched its latest Falcon 9 shortly after midnight on Sunday, adding
View larger. | This is the Hubble Space Telescope’s new view of the quasar 3C 273, 2.5 billion light-years away. We can see various filaments and blobs, and the long
A visualization of starspots on the red giant star XX Trianguli. The size of the sun is shown on the left for comparison. Image via HUN-REN RCAES/ Zs. Kovári, MOME/
File: The Falcon 9 at sunrise Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024 as final preparations were made for the NROL-167 mission. Image: SpaceX. Update 10:37 a.m. EST (1537 UTC): The first stage
Thermal imaging sensors developed for OroraTech and Spire Global’s OTC-P1 satellites. Image: Orora Technologies A new batch of eight fire detection satellites are getting ready to launch into low Earth
WASHINGTON — A joint Earth science mission between NASA and its Indian counterpart is now scheduled to launch as soon as next March after being delayed to repair its main