James Webb Space Telescope peers into a dying star surrounded by mysterious buckyballs
The spectacular birthplace of weird carbon molecules known as “buckyballs” came to light in new imagery of a…
Meet the Artemis Generation — students studying space in the new era of exploration – Houston Public Media
Michael Adkison/Houston Public Media Rice University space studies students Margot Moy, Mckenzie Golden, and William Rogers stand on…
Eight months early and under budget, the Roman Telescope is ready to launch
Scientifically, it will be used to image exoplanets in distant orbits from their stars. But it also serves…
NASA’s TESS spacecraft discovers a weird system of exoplanets unlike anything seen before
Using NASA’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets (ASTEP) on the…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Spots Strange Fish-Scale Patterns on Mars
While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of…
Comet 3I/Atlas likely originated in a cold corner of the Milky Way
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The comet that rambled past us from another star last year likely originated…
World-first metajet propulsion could enable Alpha Centauri missions
Using even the most advanced rocket propulsion technologies available today, it would take billions of dollars and hundreds…
Space Force shifts from SDA transport layer to new Space Data Network ‘backbone’
WASHINGTON — The Space Force once again does not plan to fund future iterations of a data relay…
SpaceX Shuts Down Little-Known, But Precise Starlink Location Function
Starlink customers probably haven’t used it, but SpaceX is shutting down a little-known GPS feature that can be…
Earth glows alone in darkness: Christina Koch captures stunning earthshine video
A striking new video of Earth glowing against the vast blackness of space is offering a rare and…