Sometimes an unusual celestial sight will take place at a rather ungodly hour. As a budding young amateur astronomer living in the Bronx, I remember the bemused look on my
Sometimes an unusual celestial sight will take place at a rather ungodly hour. As a budding young amateur astronomer living in the Bronx, I remember the bemused look on my
Astronomers have a new theory about planetary formation, and it revolves around one mysterious concept: interstellar visitors. No, not little green men, but rather deep-space wanderers like the peculiar comet
Lettuce Find Healthy Space Food! Citizen Scientists Study Space Salads Volunteer members of the OSDR-Analysis Working Groups examined the nutritional quality of crops grown in Low Earth Orbit and the
NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston closed 2025 with major progress across human spaceflight, research, and exploration. From Artemis II mission preparations to science aboard the International Space Station, teams
On Aug. 23, the night sky will play host to an unusual lunar event known as a Black Moon. While you won’t actually see anything unusual (in fact, you won’t
Schematic showing the distribution of the modeled volatile gas (e.g., water vapor) disk and water ice disk around a WD. The rocky dust disk and their observationally inferred properties are
Expected mass of Proxima c as a function of its orbital radius derived from the PMa analysis. The solid blue line shows the mass estimate obtained in this work from
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth at distances
SpaceX is continuing to gear up for the next flight of its Starship megarocket, which may be just around the corner. The company conducted a “static fire” test with its
WASHINGTON — Cailabs, a French company that manufactures optical ground stations for satellite communications, has raised 57 million euros ($67 million) to scale up production. Cailabs, based in Rennes, France,






