ESA’s Metal 3D Printer has produced the first metal part ever created in space. The technology…
Persevering Through the Storm – NASA Science
It is dust-storm season on Mars! Over the past couple of weeks, as we have been…
Gateway’s propulsion system testing throttles up
Credit: NASA The powerhouse of Gateway, NASA’s orbiting outpost around the moon and a critical piece…
The Final Vega Rocket Blasts Off
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched its final Vega rocket this week, lofting a Sentinel-2C Earth…
Spacecraft flies closer to Mercury than planned after thruster glitch
A 2021 image of Mercury taken by the BepiColombo mission, which has again flown past the…
Ouch! A Monster Asteroid Crashed Into Ganymede 4 Billion Years Ago, Rolling it Over
Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede, is a fascinating celestial body. Measuring 2,634 km (1,636 mi) in diameter, it…
BOLT-1B hypersonic experiment soars and collects vital data
Launched from Norway, the BOLT-1B experiment collected data about boundary layer transition (the flow of air…
Gravitational waves unveil previously unseen properties of neutron stars
Illustration of the tidal responses of two stars in a quasi-circular binary (not to scale). Credit:…
NASA’s Putting its Solar Sail Through its Paces
Those of you following the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System may have heard that its booms…
Study shows how amateur astronomers can aid in Jupiter weather monitoring
Jupiter. Credit: Enhanced image by Gerald Eichstädt and Sean Doran (CC BY-NC-SA) based on images provided…