With six new exoplanets, 5,500 discovery milestone passed

NASA’s Exoplanet Archive confirmed four new worlds, bringing the total past 5,500.NASA/JPL-Caltech On Aug. 24, 2023,…

Ariane 6 liftoff from the launchpad

Credit: European Space Agency While no person could get this close during Ariane 6’s inaugural flight…

Engineers build optical elements for the Coronagraph Instrument of the Roman Space Telescope

Artist’s impression of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The actively cooled primary mirror has a…

Exoplanet caught in ‘hairpin turn’ signals how high-mass gas giants form

A team of astronomers led by Penn State scientists have discovered a planet that has the…

A meteor streaked across the NYC skyline before disintegrating over New Jersey

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A meteor streaked across the New York City skyline before disintegrating over…

GNSS-powered autonomous navigation for moon-bound spacecraft

Geometry between GNSS satellites, spacecraft, and the Earth: spacecraft can receive GNSS signals from both the…

Astronomers spot a ‘highly eccentric’ planet on its way to becoming a hot Jupiter

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in the galaxy.…

Grain boundaries weaken in planetary interiors, research suggests

Results indicate that grain boundary strength and motion, accommodated by either shear-coupled migration (SCM) or grain…

Elon Musk says he’s moving SpaceX, X headquarters from California to Texas

Elon Musk appears at an event, Nov. 2, 2023, in London. Musk posted to social media…

Comet Tsuchinshan showing signs of breaking up prior to swinging around the sun

Dust tail of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. Upper panel: Cropped version of the computer processed image of the…