Hassell and ESA unveil their concept for a permanent base on the moon

Hassell and the European Space Agency have unveiled their Lunar Habitat Master Plan, a conceptual design…

Pancake-like comets may be made by whirling clouds of pebbles

Comet Arrokoth is a small Kuiper Belt object made of of two parts with pancake-like shapes…

Mysterious black hole jets may be the source of powerful cosmic rays

The most powerful cosmic rays that we see on Earth may come from microquasars, small black…

Japan’s rolling and hopping lunar rovers send back images of the moon

The SLIM lander on the surface of the moon, in an image taken by a rolling…

Newly discovered smoking stars emit huge clouds and we don’t know why

Artist’s impression of a red giant star throwing out a cloud of smoke and dust Public…

Japan’s SLIM moon lander regains power nine days after botched landing

The SLIM lunar lander JAXA Japan’s moon lander is back in contact with Earth, nine days…

JWST has taken extraordinary images of 19 nearby spiral galaxies

The James Webb Space Telescope captured 19 face-on spiral galaxies NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Lee…

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…