Uh Oh, There’s a Problem With Psyche’s Propulsion System

Asteroid Psyche (formally designated 16 Psyche) is one of the most intriguing objects in our Solar…

ispace’s RESILIENCE Enters Lunar Orbit. It’ll Try to Land in Early June

Headquartered in Japan, the commercial space company ispace is dedicated to creating robotic spacecraft and other…

Statistically Speaking, We Should Have Heard from Aliens by Now

The Fermi Paradox, named after physicist Enrico Fermi, highlights a contradiction in our understanding of alien…

A Collaboration Between China and the West Could Find Dozens of Earth-Like Worlds

If astronomy has a Holy Grail, it’s another habitable world. To find one, NASA is working…

Could Sweating Spacecraft Make Re-Entry Easier?

When ISS astronauts return home, they have a hot ride back to Earth’s surface. It’s been…

Mars Has Many Features that Match Earth

Despite being cold, desiccated, and having a thin atmosphere, Mars is similar to Earth in many…

A Single Impact Could Leave a Giant Planet Ringing for Millions of Years

To understand how chaotic the early Solar System was, we need only gaze at the Moon.…

A Glimpse of a Meatball

The NASA “meatball” logo mounted on the south side of the Flight Research Building at NASA’s…

There’s a Chorus of Gravitational Waves Coming from the Core of the Milky Way. Will We Hear Them?

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it’s not alone.…

MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 arrive in Florida

The first Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1), with the Copernicus Sentinel-4 instrument on board, arrived at…