‘Tube map’ around planets and moons made possible by knot theory

Credit: Astrodynamics (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s42064-024-0201-0 Just as sat-nav did away with the need to argue over…

The rising flood of space junk is a risk to us on Earth—and governments are on the hook

Large objects such as The International Space Station will need to be carefully de-orbited at the…

Next up is launch, as Boeing’s Starliner takes trek to Cape Canaveral

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, set to take its first humans on board during…

Researchers propose new formation model for massive hot subdwarfs

Constructing the evolutionary model of SMSS J1920. The initial progenitor mass is 1.8 M⊙ with Z…

NASA observations find what helps heat roots of ‘moss’ on sun

At the center of this image (left) from NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager sounding rocket is…

A solar neighborhood census, thanks to NASA citizen science

This artist’s concept by citizen scientist William Pendrill shows, at left, a cool brown dwarf called…

Citizen science project classifying gamma-ray bursts

Gamma-ray bursts, as shown in this illustration, come from powerful astronomical events. Credit: NASA, ESA and…

NASA’s VIPER moon rover gets its head and neck

Credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas In this image from Feb. 12, 2024, engineers lift a mast into…

The history of the young cold traps of the asteroid Ceres

Map of the north polar region of Ceres. The color areas are areas that are continuously…

New book gives insider’s view of cosmic search for life

Credit: Macmillan Publishers Whether life exists anywhere besides Earth is a burning question that, at long…