The European Space Agency is funding the development of a hypersonic space plane pathfinder, which will start flying by 2031, if all goes according to plan.
One of the best occultations of the Pleiades by the Moon transpires on the morning of the 20th.
Despite the powerful telescopes that modern astronomers have to work with, the distant reaches of the Solar System are still mysterious. Not much sunlight pierces these regions, and there are strong hints that undiscovered objects lurk there. The objects that astronomers have discovered in these dim reaches are primordial, and their orbits suggest the presence of more undiscovered objects. Piecing it all together is a challenge.
The basaltic meteorite is a piece of lunar rock that formed in a lava flow 2.35 billion years ago, long after volcanism on the moon was supposed to have ended.
Titan shadow transit seasons occurs just once every 15 years.
'It's fun to see Una come down on someone. We don't get to see that very often.'
China's Tianwen 2 mission captured stunning views of Earth and the moon from deep space just days after launch.
All of the telescopes here are easy to set up on a tabletop, making them an easy option for beginners and professional stargazers.
Up to 200 worlds investigated by NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite could be bigger than predicted, a finding that could impact our search for alien life.
These are the best telescopes for professional astrophotography and will allow you to capture high-definition images of planets, nebulas and galaxies.
Astronomers unveiled a striking view of the new interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS on its journey toward the inner solar system.
These modern-day Gorn are a major upgrade on the lizard man Captain Kirk battled in the Original Series.
On July 17, 1975, an American Apollo crew and a Soviet Soyuz crew met up in Earth orbit for the first time, setting the foundation for continued cooperation in space over the past 50 years.
NASA moved its payload adapter at the Space Flight Center in Huntsville to prepare for the upcoming Artemis IV mission
The left-hand side of the moon will appear lit by direct sunlight, with the right bathed in shadow.
There are plenty of engineering challenges facing space exploration missions, most of which are specific to their missions objectives. However, there are some that are more universal, especially regarding electronics. A new paper primarily written by a group of American students temporarily studying at Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieria in Madrid, attempts to lay out plans to tackle several of those challenges for a variety of mission architectures.
NASA and Boeing are still working on the thruster issues that Starliner experienced on its first crewed flight last year, and the spacecraft's next mission will likely launch without astronauts.
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Space weather ‘reporter’ Vigil will be the world’s first space weather mission to be permanently positioned at Lagrange point 5, a unique vantage point that allows us to see solar activity days before it reaches Earth. ESA’s Vigil mission will be a dedicated operational space weather mission, sending data 24/7 from deep space.
The hunt for potentially habitable rocky planets in our galaxy has been the holy grail of exoplanet studies for decades. While the discovery of over 5,900 exoplanets in over 4.400 planetary systems has been a remarkable achievement, only a small fraction (217) have been confirmed as terrestrial - aka. rocky or "Earth-like." Furthermore, obtaining accurate information on a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere is very difficult, since potentially habitable rocky planets are much smaller and tend to orbit closer to their stars.
In 2016, scientists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) made history with the first-ever detection of Gravitational Waves (GWs). These events, originally predicted by Einstein's Theory of Relativity, are caused by the merger of dense objects like neutron stars and black holes. Since then, the LIGO team partnered with the Virgo Gravitational Wave Interferometer (Virgo) in Italy and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA) in Japan to form the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration.
Stars are born in clusters, and the early days in these clusters are messy. Stars move chaotically and haven't settled into regular routines. Inevitably, some stars are kicked out of their birth clusters through all of the gravitational interactions.
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