New craters on the Moon are fading faster than expected
Researchers have found that newly formed lunar craters disturb the Moon’s surface over distances more than 1,000 times…
Astronomer Finds a Shortcut to Mars by Following an Asteroid’s Journey Through Space
A one-way trip to Mars takes somewhere between seven and 10 months, following a fairly direct route between…
Elon Musk gets an apology from California regulators as SpaceX lawsuit is settled | Elon Musk
California regulators apologized to the SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, this week as they settled a lawsuit that claimed…
Trump hosts crew of historic Artemis mission: ‘I would have had no trouble making it’ | Artemis II
Donald Trump hosted the crew of the historic Artemis II lunar flyby mission at the White House on…
‘Is a President allowed to go on a space mission?’: Trump jokes as Artemis II astronauts visit White House
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he meets with Artemis II astronauts (Image/AP) US President Donald Trump…
Astrophysics wasn’t Carole Jordan’s only legacy | Astronomy
Your obituary of the astrophysicist Carole Jordan (31 March) describes a life dedicated to making important discoveries about…
Europe’s powerful Ariane 6 rocket launching 32 Amazon internet satellites early April 30: Watch it live
Flight VA268 | Amazon Leo LE-02 | Ariane 6 | Arianespace – YouTube Watch On Europe’s most powerful…
NASA would cancel dozens of missions under White House’s proposed cuts
Weeks after NASA’s first crewed mission around the moon in more than 50 years ended to great fanfare,…
The cosmos wears a galactic sombrero photo of the day for April 29, 2026
Messier 104, or the Sombrero galaxy. (Image credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURAImage Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), D.…
Space breakthrough: Nasa plans to light FIRE on the Moon in preparation for disaster worst-case scenario
Nasa is preparing to light a fire on the Moon for the first time in history as part…