The Ingenuity helicopter’s Mars mission is over, but it left a legacy

The Ingenuity helicopter’s flying days are over. After an astonishing 72 flights over the course of…

Galaxy smash-ups may explain strange light from early universe

Merging galaxies from the early universe imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope S. Martin-Alvarez Observations…

What we know about the stars where NASA will hunt for alien life

Could a nearby super Earth host life? Steven Hobbs/Stocktrek Images/Alamy To prepare for one of the…

Starship launch: Next SpaceX flight test is expected this month

Starship first launched on 20 April 2023 Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images SpaceX is…

Matthias Maurer: How to become a lunar astronaut

Matthias Maurer is a European Space Agency astronaut who spent six months aboard the International Space…

Asteroid sampled by NASA may once have been part of an ocean world

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, brought back by the OSIRIS-REx mission, contains hints that it…

Why it takes so much work to grow plants in space

Astronaut Christina Koch looking at the greenhouse on the International Space Station NASA The following is…

Saturn’s moon Mimas may be hiding a vast global ocean under its ice

Mimas photographed by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science I Saturn’s moon Mimas appears to have a…

How to spot the constellations Perseus and Auriga

ECKHARD SLAWIK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY THIS week we will be looking for two important constellations that are…

In a new era of astronomy, we're feeling for vibrations in space-time

For most of humanity’s existence, we have observed the universe using light, but these days photons…