On 12 March 2025 ESA’s Hera spacecraft for planetary defence performs a flyby of Mars. The…
Remains of destroyed planet found lurking in Helix nebula
View larger. | Chandra’s view of the Helix nebula, released on March 3, 2025. The white…
Two astronauts stranded in space are coming back to Earth : NPR
Astronauts Suni Williams (lower) and Butch Wilmore (left) were originally supposed to return to Earth in…
Sped-up simulation of Hera’s Mars flyby
On 12 March 2025 ESA’s Hera spacecraft for planetary defence performs a flyby of Mars. The…
NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH launched to map the universe and track solar wind in 3D
NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) and…
SpaceX craft to launch to retrieve 2 astronauts who have been swept up in politics
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will launch Wednesday to the International Space Station. It’s expected to bring…
SpaceX Launches NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH Missions
Two NASA missions finally launched from the California coast and soared toward the stars late Tuesday…
Is Europa Alive? A Laser Could Detect Biosignatures from Space
Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four…
Four Mini-Earths Found at Barnard’s Star!
Barnard’s Star is a small, dim red dwarf star located in the constellation Ophiuchus. It’s distance…
The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
A mosaic image of asteroid Bennu composed of images collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft NASA/Goddard/University of…