The Earth Observer Editor’s Corner: Summer 2024

As part of ARCSIX, NASA is flying two of its aircraft, with the first flights having…

Another intermediate-mass black hole discovery at the center of our galaxy

Observation of IRS 13 with NACO and ALMA. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal (2024). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad4098 While…

New Evidence Adds to Findings Hinting at Network of Caves on Moon

Like “lava tubes” found here on Earth, scientists suspect that lunar caves formed when molten lava…

Opening up new ground in the search for dark matter

Projection of the sensitivity of DALI to dark sector photon dark matter with overlapping boundaries published…

Sols 4248-4249: Lunch at Fairview Dome

The science team opted to stay for two full days of contact science at Fairview Dome…

ESA is Building a Mission to Visit Asteroid Apophis, Joining it for its 2029 Earth Flyby

According to the ESA’s Near-Earth Objects Coordination Center (NEOCC), 35,264 known asteroids regularly cross the orbit…

The sun is already starting its next solar cycle—despite being halfway through its current one

This map shows which latitudes on the sun were rotating faster (shown in red and yellow)…

From One Crew to Another: Artemis II Astronauts Meet NASA Barge Crew

Members of the Artemis II crew met with the crew of NASA’s Pegasus barge prior to…

Boeing is closer to understanding thruster failures on its first astronaut flight with latest test

This photo provided by NASA shows the Starliner spacecraft docked to the Harmony module of the…

NASA Sounding Rocket Launches, Studies Heating of Sun’s Active Regions

By Wayne Smith Investigators at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will use observations…