ESA’s Hera mission will be humankind’s first mission to explore a binary asteroid system. The mission…
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The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future, and NASA is calling on private companies for backup
The equipment planned to help bring samples back from Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL A critical NASA mission…
Recently discovered black hole is part of a nearby disrupted star cluster, study finds
Gaia DR3 extinction corrected color-magnitude diagram (CMD) showing the location of the Gaia BH3 companion (red…
A NASA rover has reached a promising place to search for fossilized life on Mars
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size…
NASA’s Chandra releases timelapse movies of Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A
Credit: Chandra X-ray Center New movies of two of the most famous objects in the sky—the…
Pushing the limits of sub-kilowatt electric propulsion technology for space mission concepts
Northrop Grumman NGHT-1X engineering model Hall-effect thruster operating in Glenn Research Center Vacuum Facility 8. The…
Signs of ‘spider’ phenomenon on Mars
This image shows features known as “spiders” near Mars’s south pole, as seen by the CaSSIS…
Black hole ‘traffic jams’ discovered in galactic centers by astronomers
Individual normalized torques for the M• = 107M⊙ case. Black lines show combined type I torques…
SpaceX launch marks 300th successful booster landing
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX sent up the 30th launch from the Space Coast for the…
International team detects eruption of mega-magnetic star in nearby galaxy
Artist’s impression of a magnetar. Magnetars are the cosmic objects with the strongest magnetic fields ever…