The celestial tapestry of our Milky Way is a complex interplay of light, dust, and gas, where stars are born in magnificent ‘stellar nurseries.’ The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission
The celestial tapestry of our Milky Way is a complex interplay of light, dust, and gas, where stars are born in magnificent ‘stellar nurseries.’ The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission
Can a planet that lacks plate tectonics and has very little carbon dioxide support life? Maybe. Can it support life long enough for a technological civilization to arise? New research
ISOs like Comet 3I/ATLAS are fascinating yet fleeting visitors from distant solar systems. New research suggests that when captured by a young solar system that’s still forming planets, these objects
It’s rather strange to think about catching a planet in the act of being born given that the process takes millions of years but for the first time, astronomers have
ARVADA, Colorado — Lunar Outpost, a private space company, is putting the pedal to the metal on its lunar terrain vehicle (LTV), a large rover that Artemis astronauts may use
As the Perseverance rover traversed an ancient river valley in Mars’ Jezero Crater back in July 2024, it drilled into the surface and extracted a sample from a unique, striped
From left to right, NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) missions will
The sun has become increasingly active since 2008, a new NASA study shows. Solar activity is known to fluctuate in cycles of 11 years, but there are longer-term variations that
TAMPA, Fla. — Canada’s Telesat is pitching Lightspeed as a bridge to IRIS² as its low Earth orbit (LEO) broadband constellation is set to come online in 2027, at least
Credit: NASA NASA has selected Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston to provide safety and mission assurance services for the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Safety and






