As a crescent moon sank into the forest, I looked high above the cabin behind me to see just how dark it was getting. Staring back at me was the
As a crescent moon sank into the forest, I looked high above the cabin behind me to see just how dark it was getting. Staring back at me was the
Atmospheric escape shapes an exoplanet’s future. Earth’s exosphere is extended and detectable due to ocean-related atmospheric escape. If we can detect the same features on an exoplanet, it could suggest
Visual extinction maps of the observed regions. Contours in the Barnard 1b map (left) correspond to mag levels. The contours
WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency expects to decide in February how to address a 20% funding shortfall in its exploration program. At the agency’s ministerial conference last month, ESA’s
An artist’s concept of the Starlab commercial space station. Starlab As NASA continues its transition toward a commercial low Earth orbit marketplace, an agency-supported commercial space station, Starlab, recently completed
Stars and planets are naturally associated with one another. While some planets have gone rogue and are drifting through space, the vast majority are in solar systems, where they’re gravitationally
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are painting a new picture of Jupiter’s moon Europa and revealing the hidden chemistry of the icy moon’s interior. For decades,
A rocket carrying carbon dioxide- and Earth-observing satellites successfully blasted off from South America late Friday.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the launch of SpaceX’s 33rd Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-33) mission. Image:
China is poised to make space exploration history again with its Tianwen-3 mission launching in 2028. With the audacious plan to drill two meters beneath Mars’ radiation blasted surface it






