NASA Fires Up the Massive RS-25 Rocket Engine in Test for Future Artemis Moon Missions
NASA conducted its fourth RS-25 single-engine hot fire of the year May 20, a continuation of its seven-part test series to support the development and…
NASA conducted its fourth RS-25 single-engine hot fire of the year May 20, a continuation of its seven-part test series to support the development and…
Are we alone in the universe? Since 1959, the famed SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program has been trying to answer this question. American astronomer…
The first lunar eclipse of 2021 is going to happen during the early hours of May 26. But this is going to be a very…
China’s Zhurong rover landed safely on Mars on May 15, making China only the third country to successfully land a rover on the red planet….
Salts Could Be Important Piece of Martian Organic Puzzle A NASA team has found that organic, or carbon-containing, salts are likely present on Mars, with…
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on the surface of Mars since February of 2021, joining NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been studying the Red Planet…
As part of the Artemis program, NASA is planning to send its first mobile robot to the Moon in late 2023 in search of ice and other…
International collaboration, under the aegis of Berkeley Lab, aims for 3D map of the universe, unraveling of mysterious ‘dark energy.’ A five-year quest to map…
The nearby Orion Bar is a typical example of a region influenced by young, massive stars Spectacular supernova explosions have been known to shape the…
Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies’ Spiral Arms They come from anywhere in the sky: mysterious flashes of radio energy that disappear in…
A bold proposal to create a commercially viable constellation of lunar satellites has taken a step closer. Two consortia of companies will be supported by…
NASA has named three students the winners of the Artemis Moon Pod Essay Contest for their creative visions of a pioneering journey to the Moon….
First study of timing of extreme space weather events reveals clear pattern. Planned missions to return humans to the Moon need to hurry up to…
First high-resolution model to simulate an entire gas cloud where stars are born. A team including Northwestern University astrophysicists has developed the most realistic, highest-resolution…
A new study by a Belgian team using data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has shown that iron and nickel…
Regardless of size, all black holes experience similar accretion cycles, a new study finds. On September 9, 2018, astronomers spotted a flash from a galaxy…
Scientists have long questioned why the bursts of hot gas from the Sun do not cool down as fast as expected, and now a UCL-led…
On May 8, 2021, a piece of space junk from a Chinese rocket fell uncontrolled back to Earth and landed in the Indian Ocean near…