Revolutionizing Agriculture: The Next Frontier of Farming on the Moon
From Moonwalkers to Farmers: Turning Lunar Soil into Fertilizer for Hydroponic Farming Sooner or later, settlers on the Moon will have to become farmers. A…
From Moonwalkers to Farmers: Turning Lunar Soil into Fertilizer for Hydroponic Farming Sooner or later, settlers on the Moon will have to become farmers. A…
No one saw the Chelyabinsk meteor of February 15, 2013, coming – the largest asteroid to strike Earth in over a century. Just after sunrise…
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope is populated with a serene collection of elliptical and spiral galaxies, with the center dominated by a massive…
The Liverpool Land peninsula, on the east coast of Greenland, is featured in this satellite image from the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel-2. The peninsula is…
Each year, the Hubble Space Telescope has observation time devoted to Saturn, thanks to the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, and the dynamic gas…
Seventh Shooting Star Ever Spotted Before Impact For the seventh time, a small asteroid – a meteoroid as astronomers call it – was discovered in…
A grand odyssey of exploration is about to begin. Humankind’s next bold mission to the outer Solar System, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated white dwarf star – the…
A spectacular trio of merging galaxies in the constellation Boötes takes center stage in this stunning image from the Hubble Space Telescope. These three galaxies…
ESA’s Cheops finds an unexpected ring around dwarf planet Quaoar During a break from looking at planets around other stars, the European Space Agency’s CHaracterising…
Right in the middle of this image, nestled amongst a smattering of distant stars and even more distant galaxies, lies the newly discovered dwarf galaxy known as Donatiello II. If…
Satellite imagery confirms a gigantic iceberg, around five times the size of Malta, has finally calved from Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf. The new berg, estimated…
A snapshot of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is the most recent Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week. The Tarantula Nebula…
Webb has identified frozen forms of a wide range of molecules, including carbon dioxide, ammonia, and methane. The discovery of diverse ices in the darkest…
The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, which has also captured a smaller companion…
One of last year’s space highlights was the NASA DART mission’s collision with Dimorphos (seen right in the animation above), the small moon of the binary…
One year ago, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted, causing widespread destruction to the Pacific Island Nation of Tonga, spewing volcanic material up to 36…
Europe has kicked off the new year with an intense winter heatwave. The warm temperatures and lack of snowfall in the Alps and the Pyrenees…