The Hera mission to follow-up on the aftermath of NASA’s DART asteroid crash has caught sight of two other asteroids in an important test of its camera ahead of its
The Hera mission to follow-up on the aftermath of NASA’s DART asteroid crash has caught sight of two other asteroids in an important test of its camera ahead of its
The JWST has found another moon orbiting Uranus. It’s the planet’s 29th known moon, and it bears the uninspiring, temporary name S/2025 U1. It’s too small and faint to be
Brace yourself for a journey to the largest planet in our solar system — Jupiter, the mighty gas giant that reigns supreme with its swirling storms and colossal size. Its
NASA has finally given up on Lunar Trailblazer. The 440-pound (200-kilogram) moon orbiter went dark on Feb. 27, 2025 a day after it launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
We love a good alien invasion game. From Duke Nukem to Half-Life, we’ve pushed back against extraterrestrial attackers in many ways and different settings for decades now. Typically, such interstellar
Using stem cells from mice, researchers from Kyoto University tested the potential damage spaceflight can have on spermatazoa stem cells and the resulting offspring. After six months aboard the ISS,
Snapshot of the triple transit of planet b, c, and d as seen by K2 at the end of 2016. This artistic representation has been created with the software tango
For Northern Hemisphere observers, August is usually regarded as “meteor month” with one of the best displays of the year reaching its peak near midmonth. That display is, of course,
Exoplanets with and without a magnetic field are predicted to form, behave, and evolve very differently. In order to understand the exoplanet population, and to make progress understanding habitability, astronomers
The seven astronauts and cosmonauts that comprise the second half of the International Space Station‘s Expedition 73 crew focused this week on a new shipment of supplies and conducting the




