Sentinel-2C in the Vega launch tower

In preparation for liftoff on 4 September 2024 (3 September Kourou time), the Vega–Sentinel-2C upper-composite has…

40 Years Ago: President Reagan Announces Teacher in Space Project

On Aug. 27, 1984, President Ronald W. Reagan announced the Teacher in Space project as part…

ESA – CEERS crop (NIRCam image)

When astronomers got their first glimpses of galaxies in the early Universe from the NASA/ESA/CSA James…

Geologists discover hidden magmatism at the Chang’e-6 lunar landing site

Chang’e-6 landing site locates to the southern Apollo basin in the northeast of the South Pole-Aitken…

Wizards Behind the Curtain: Johnson’s Administrative Team Makes Missions Possible

For every NASA astronaut who serves as a public face of human spaceflight, there are thousands…

The Hardest Bias in Astronomy

A nasty sort of bias called Malmquist bias affects almost every astronomical survey, and the only…

Event Horizon Telescope makes highest-resolution black hole detections from Earth

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has made the first very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) detections…

How dangerous is Polaris Dawn space walk from SpaceX Crew Dragon?

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Billionaire Jared Isaacman could make history for all the right reasons during…

JWST found rogue worlds that blur the line between stars and planets

Stellar cluster NGC 1333 is home to a large number of brown dwarfs NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/NOAO/DSS Astronomers have…

ESA – Webb peeks into Perseus

This stunning new mosaic of images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope showcases the nearby…