NASA/Ben Smegelsky NASA’s Crawler-transporter 2 moves toward the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. The crawler will transport NASA’s SLS (Space
NASA/Ben Smegelsky NASA’s Crawler-transporter 2 moves toward the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. The crawler will transport NASA’s SLS (Space
A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ocean of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons and a leading candidate for
Graph of the semimajor axis and eccentricity of the final terrestrial planets in the simulations of Table 1. Note that the majority of the planets formed or reached their final
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in 2025 May–June. Using this extensive data set, we coadded more than 9000 images, in two groups, to look for
The United States military space enterprise enters 2026 under pressure to turn long-promised acquisition reforms into results. For defense space companies, the year is shaping up as a test of
WASHINGTON — German launch company Isar Aerospace is preparing for the second launch of its Spectrum rocket, this time carrying several satellite payloads. The Munich-based company announced Jan. 16 that
Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin said Friday it would temporarily pause flights of its space tourism rocket to focus more resources on its lunar ambitions.
The first results on the iconic active galactic nucleus MCG–6-30-15 captured with the XRISM mission show the most precise signatures yet of its supermassive black hole’s extreme gravity and the
By treating optical telescopes as an array of smaller telescopes, astronomers could observe exoplanets more clearly.
SpaceX is rapidly advancing its Starship assembly and launch infrastructure at its Roberts Road site, as revealed by recent aerial photography from NSF. Progress is notable on several crucial elements,






