Asteroid 2024 PT5 to become Earth’s temporary new mini-moon on September 29

A recently discovered asteroid designated 2024 PT5, a member of the Apollo asteroid group, is projected…

Partial lunar eclipse of September 18, 2024, visible from Americas, Europe, and Africa

The partial lunar eclipse of September 18, 2024, will be visible from several continents, including the…

New Video Shows How Tiny Spacecraft Will “Swarm” Proxima Centauri

Earlier this year, NASA selected a rather interesting proposal for Phase I development as part of…

More Bodies Discovered in the Outer Solar System

The outer Solar System has been a treasure trove of discoveries in recent decades. Using ground-based…

A Gravity Map of Mars Uncovers Subsurface Mysteries

A team of scientists presented a new gravity map of Mars at the Europlanet Science Congress…

The Outer Reaches of the Milky Way are Full of Stars, and the JWST is Observing Them

The Milky Way’s outer reaches are coming into view thanks to the JWST. Astronomers pointed the…

Scientists Recreate Mars Spiders in the Lab

In 2003, strange features on Mars’s surface got scientists’ “spidey senses” tingling when they saw them.…

Polaris Dawn is Away, Sending Another Crew Into Orbit to Perform the First Private Spacewalk

We’ve officially entered a new era of private spaceflight. Yesterday, the crew of Polaris Dawn, a…

How the ESA’s Rosalind Franklin Rover Will Drill for Samples on Mars

Russia’s attack on Ukraine has delayed its launch, but the ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover is heading…

Artemis Missions Could Put the most Powerful imaging Telescope on the Moon

Ground-based interferometry on Earth has proven to be a successful method for conducting science by combining…