Study finds presence of water molecules not a major obstacle for formation

Dr. Serge Krasnokutski, Laboratory Astrophysics and Cluster Physics group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy…

NASA’s near space network enables PACE climate mission to ‘phone home’

An artistic rendering of multiple Earth-observing satellites around the globe using NASA’s Near Space Network to…

Astronauts to patch up NASA’s NICER telescope

This image, obtained June 8, 2018, shows NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) on the…

NASA’s Roman space telescope’s ‘eyes’ pass first vision test

This photo shows the entire optics system for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It consists…

NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s moon Titan confirmed

Artist’s concept of Dragonfly soaring over the dunes of Saturn’s moon Titan. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve…

On-demand nutrient production system for long-duration space missions

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann works in the International Space Station’s Harmony…

‘Tube map’ around planets and moons made possible by knot theory

Credit: Astrodynamics (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s42064-024-0201-0 Just as sat-nav did away with the need to argue over…

The rising flood of space junk is a risk to us on Earth—and governments are on the hook

Large objects such as The International Space Station will need to be carefully de-orbited at the…

Next up is launch, as Boeing’s Starliner takes trek to Cape Canaveral

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, set to take its first humans on board during…

Researchers propose new formation model for massive hot subdwarfs

Constructing the evolutionary model of SMSS J1920. The initial progenitor mass is 1.8 M⊙ with Z…