A Closer Look at Mercury’s Spin and Gravity Reveals the Planet’s Inner Solid Core

Mercury’s inner core is indeed solid and that it is very nearly the same size as…

The CSA awards funding to prepare Canadian companies, universities and students for future missions to the Moon

These projects will be part of the CSA’s Lunar Exploration Analogue Deployment, which will position Canada…

Northrop Grumman Engineers Load Final Cargo for Cygnus Launch

Mission engineers load the final cargo into the Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard the Northrop Grumman Antares…

A “Jellyfish” Galaxy Swims Into View of NASA’s Upcoming Webb Telescope

Webb will target sites of star formation at different points along the tail: close to the…

Luca Parmitano training for second mission

This Summer ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will fly to the International Space Station from the Baikonur…

NASA Announces First Flight, Record-Setting Mission

NASA and its International Space Station partners have set a new schedule and new crew assignments…

Very bright fireball over New Jersey and Delaware

A very bright fireball was recorded over New Jersey and Delaware at 02:57 UTC on April…

Mirror, mirror

Technology image of the week: a vintage image of a 121-segment mirror array being installed inside…

Deep Space X-ray Burst Gives Astronomers New Signal To Detect Neutron Star Merger

An international team of astronomers, including faculty and alumni from UNLV, has discovered a new way…

NASA’s New Flying Robots: Bee-ing in Space for the First Time

Bees are known to be both busy and hard-working, and NASA’s new free-flying space robots, called…