It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a new era for modern astronomy. Launched...
When NASA’s Mars rovers found manganese oxides in rocks in the Gale and Endeavor craters on Mars in 2014, the...
Russia is examining the flight worthiness of a Soyuz crew capsule docked with the ISS that sprang a leak last...
Lunar Trailblazer, NASA’s mission led by Caltech in Pasadena, California to understand lunar water and the moon’s water cycle, is...
Since NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft intentionally slammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Sept. 26—altering its orbit...
Europe’s new Vega-C rocket was lost shortly after lift-off from French Guiana overnight with two satellites on board, in the...
Webb’s picture of the month for December is dominated by NGC 7469, a luminous, face-on spiral galaxy approximately 90,000 light-years...
A titanium tube containing a rock sample is resting on the Red Planet’s surface after being placed there on Dec....
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea A bright flash of gamma rays...
NASA’s InSight mission has ended after more than four years of collecting unique science on Mars. Mission controllers at the...
Surrounded by a vast ocean underneath a thick ice shell, Enceladus is a hot candidate for potentially harboring alien life....
Researchers from Italy, Chile and Galicia have studied and compared the light pollution levels at major astronomical observatories across the...
