This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Right now, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. As
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Right now, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. As
One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss out whether or not they could potentially support
New research suggests that dark matter could gather over vast periods of time at the heart of Jupiter-sized planets, creating black holes that eat these worlds from within. This striking
On January 14, 2026, the European Space Agency (ESA) is set to conduct a virtual event aimed at its industrial partners, intended to discuss the outcomes from the recent ESA
With new technologies comes new discoveries. Or so Spider Man’s Uncle Ben might have said if he was an astronomer. Or a scientist more generally – but in astronomy that
Time-averaged chemical evolution of the studied species across all second stage models, as defined in Tab. 2. Line styles and shading follow those in Fig. 1. Only gas-phase abundances above
Why not try your luck in late August and try to spot a rare Aurigid shooting star as the shower comes to a peak later this weekend? The Aurigid meteor
SpaceX launched a fresh batch of Starlink spacecraft into orbit this morning (Sep. 3), lofting 28 more satellites into the company’s megaconstellation of over 8,000. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted
WASHINGTON — The inclusion of a 30-day demonstration mission in revised plans by NASA to support development of commercial space stations does not represent a permanent shift to shorter missions.
NASA and SpaceX have achieved another remarkable milestone with the launch of the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) on September 24. The strategic deployment of IMAP, along with its






