The Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) for NASA’s Volatile Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission is prepared for packing inside a laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at
The Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) for NASA’s Volatile Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission is prepared for packing inside a laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at
China is ready to launch a mission to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid. Propellant was being loaded into a Long March 3B rocket at Xichang spaceport in the southwest
A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent final stages of a dying star’s life. The snapshot above
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Do you ever feel like the universe is smiling down on you? Well, in the predawn hours of April 25 it literally will be thanks to a double conjunction that
4 min read May’s Night Sky Notes: How Do We Find Exoplanets? Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the
Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line) and how melting ice from Greenland caused changes in the motion of Earth’s crust (purple arrows). — University of Colorado at Boulder
NASA’s pioneering Dragonfly mission has cleared a key hurdle, keeping it on track for a 2028 launch to Saturn’s huge moon Titan. Dragonfly, a car-sized, nuclear-powered rotorcraft designed to investigate
WASHINGTON — A leading Democratic member of the House Science Committee says the proposed steep cuts in NASA’s fiscal year 2026 budget proposal show that the administration does not appreciate
In carbon-containing meteorites, impacts create extremely hot carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gases (yellow). Kurosawa says: “We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the