A Mission That Could Reach Mercury on Solar Sails Alone

An innovative proposal would be a first for planetary exploration. Turns out, it’s as tough to…

Artemis II Insignia Honors All

The four astronauts who will be the first to fly to the Moon under NASA’s Artemis…

NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Assigned to First Space Station Mission

NASA astronaut Chris Williams will embark on his first mission to the International Space Station, serving…

Here are SPHEREx’s First Images

SPHEREx stands for the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices…

ESA – Firing up HENON’s engine

Beneath this eerie green light and tendril-like cables sits a newly developed gridded ion engine thruster…

Webb Scans Asteroid 2024 YR4, it’s 60 Meters Across

The threat of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), while generally low, remains a significant concern due to the…

Birthplaces of new planets come in many different sizes

View larger. | These are the 73 protoplanetary disks – or planet-forming disks – that ALMA…

How hidden lakes threaten Antarctic Ice Sheet stability

Applications 03/04/2025 40 views 0 likes For decades, satellites have played a crucial role in our…

Studying Uranian Moons using Passive Radar Sounding

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc April 2, 2025 How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its…

Galaxies Were Already Dying Just 700 Million Years After the Big Bang

According to the most widely accepted cosmological model, the first stars and galaxies began forming around…