Space Force’s X-37B is Back After 14 Secretive Months in Orbit

The X-37B is a reusable robotic space plane operated by the U.S. Space Force. It resembles…

Watch Blue Ghost Test its Vacuum and Drill Experiments on the Moon

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, developed by Firefly Aerospace, represents a significant achievement in commercial lunar…

Remember that Asteroid That Isn’t Going to Hit Earth? We Could Send A Mission to Explore it!

Last year, astronomers detected the Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2024 YR4 that orbits the Sun every four…

Total lunar eclipse on March 14, 2025, visible across the Americas, Europe, and Africa

The eclipse will begin with the penumbral phase at 03:57 UTC on March 14. The partial…

How Humans Can Reinvent Themselves to Live on Other Worlds

By Alan Boyle March 8, 2025 Let’s face it: Space is a hostile environment for humans.…

The Athena Lunar Lander Also Fell Over on its Side

The Athena lunar lander (IM-2) has been declared dead after it failed to stick the landing…

Catching March’s Total Lunar Eclipse

After a long ‘eclipse drought,’ lunar totality once again spans the Americas. The end is in…

Mysterious X-ray signal linked to planetary destruction

A planetary destruction event has been detected in the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), located 650 light-years…

Starship explodes in spectacular fireball, causing air traffic delays

“During Starship’s ascent burn, the vehicle experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly, and contact was lost. Our…

A Protoplanetary Disk That Refuses to Grow Up

Stars form from giant clouds of gas and dust that begin to collapse under their own…