Giant free-floating planets might have planets of their own

New research has found that rogue planets – planets that don’t orbit stars – could have…

NASA Tests Research Aircraft to Improve Air Taxi Flight Controls

Flying the friendly skies may one day include time-saving trips in air taxis to get from…

A time traveller’s guide to the solar system

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for…

Alligator Goes for a Swim

An alligator moves through a brackish waterway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The center…

NASA’s SpaceX-33 Resupply Mission Launches Research to Station

Research traveling to the International Space Station aboard NASA’s SpaceX 33rd commercial resupply mission includes testing…

Tracking the climate-driven shift in Antarctic plankton from space

Applications 13/08/2025 100 views 2 likes Combining 25 years of space-based data with ocean sampling, scientists…

Strange spiral in the night sky was a rocket fuel dump

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Lorraine Boyd in Delmar, New York, spotted the strange spiral…

No Earth-like atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 d

Science & Exploration 13/08/2025 11 views 0 likes The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for…

Surprisingly chaotic early universe had supersonic turbulence

This is a 3D view of clumps of gas in the center of a dark matter…

MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 lift off

Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission –  has launched aboard…