China’s moon sample-return mission finds water evidence twice over
The daring Chang’e 5 mission touched down on the moon in December 2020, drilling down for and scooping up the youngest lunar samples ever collected. Soon after, an ascent vehicle...
The daring Chang’e 5 mission touched down on the moon in December 2020, drilling down for and scooping up the youngest lunar samples ever collected. Soon after, an ascent vehicle...
We now have a date for our first real images from NASA’s next-generation observatory. Following half a year of commissioning in space, NASA will release the first operational images taken...
NASA announced Thursday that its Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has calibrated more than 40 «milepost markers» of space and time. The mile markers help scientists measure the expansion rate of...
The Tianzhou 4 freighter docked with the Tianhe core module about 6.5 hours after lifting off. China’s Tianzhou 4 freighter has arrived at its orbital destination. The robotic Tianzhou...
About 1,500 flames were ignited on the International Space Station in five years to learn how fire behaves in microgravity Similar to the cult 1981 prehistoric fantasy film, NASA is...
Perseverance’s search for Mars life might strike gold here. NASA’s life-hunting Perseverance Mars rover just reached a big mission milestone. Perseverance has arrived safely at the remains of an ancient...
Skywatchers will finally be able to enjoy the thrill of observing «shooting stars» again this week as the April Lyrids meteor shower arrives after a three-month-long meteor drought. For those...
Will auroras follow? Aurora watchers, it’s your lucky month. For the second time in days, the sun hurled a large, X-class flare at Earth overnight Tuesday (April 19) and Wednesday...
The «canyon of fire» is at least 12,400 miles (20,000 kilometers) deep and 10 times as long. Filaments of plasma escaped from a fiery canyon that opened on the...
You can spot them Sunday and Monday, before sunrise. You can spot a triangular alignment of three bright worlds Sunday (March 27) and Monday (March 28) in the predawn hours....