Almost a year ago, the space science community watched as an asteroid entered Earth’s orbit and circled above our heads for almost two months before departing. Scientists usually track such
Almost a year ago, the space science community watched as an asteroid entered Earth’s orbit and circled above our heads for almost two months before departing. Scientists usually track such
The Drag Prediction Workshop series is an extensive international effort to improve transonic aerodynamic predictions. This long-running collaborative effort seeks to mobilize the international aerospace community to improve the computational
Crew 11 during training before launch last August (left to right): Cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Crew 11 commander Zena Cardman and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui. Image: NASA
Artist’s rendition of the space weather around M dwarf TIC 141146667. The torus of ionized gas is sculpted by the star’s magnetic field and rotation, with two pinched, dense clumps
The recent discovery of the third known interstellar object (ISO), 3I/ATLAS, has brought about another round of debate on whether these objects could potentially be technological in origin. Everything from
WASHINGTON — Congressional appropriators on Jan. 20 released a fiscal 2026 defense spending bill that funds the U.S. Space Force at $26 billion, matching the administration’s request, while faulting the
The Euclid Space Telescope found some stars hiding in thick gas and dust in the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. They’re inside a so-called dark cloud named LDN 1641.
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The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun’s corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation’s Daniel F. Inouye Solar Telescope — could be the
Look to the eastern horizon just after sunset on Sept. 8 to see the ringed gas giant Saturn shine close to the bright disk of the waning gibbous moon. Saturn






