Astronomers Can See the Impact Site Where an Asteroid Crashed Into a White Dwarf

Nothing is immortal. Everything has a finite existence, including the stars themselves. How a star dies…

Grabbing Samples from the Surface of Mars

As if the Mars Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Drone were not exciting enough then the next…

Comet disintegrates as it dives into the Sun

A new sun-diving comet appeared in LASCO C3 coronagraph imagery at around 11:54 UTC on March…

Curiosity Rover is Climbing Through Dramatic Striped Terrain on Mars

Just about every day we here on Earth get a breathtaking picture of Mars’s terrain sent…

A Giant Gamma-Ray Bubble is a Source of Extreme Cosmic Rays

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the most powerful phenomena in the Universe and something that…

Asteroid 2024 EF to fly past Earth at 0.1 LD on March 4

A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2024 EF will fly past Earth at a distance of just 0.15…

New Study Addresses how Lunar Missions will Kick up Moondust.

Before the end of this decade, NASA plans to return astronauts to the Moon for the…

How Warm Are the Oceans on the Icy Moons? The Ice Thickness Provides a Clue.

Scientists are discovering that more and more Solar System objects have warm oceans under icy shells.…

NASA Tests the New Starship Docking System

The Apollo Program delivered 12 American astronauts to the surface of the Moon. But that program…

China Has Built a Huge Space Simulation Chamber

Well it certainly caught my attention when I saw the headlines  “China’s first Space Environment Simulator”…