Ancient Cracked Mud Found on Mars
A recent study published in Nature examines how mud cracks observed on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover could provide insight…
Crew-7 Reaches the International Space Station
SpaceX Crew-7, the next group of four astronauts, are now on board the International Space Station, and this diverse crew…
NASA’s New Horizons Mission Still Threatened
The New Horizons spacecraft that studied Pluto and Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth continues its pioneering exploration of the Kuiper Belt.…
The Early Universe Should Be Awash in Active Galaxies, but JWST Isn't Finding Them
Astronomers have found supermassive black holes in the centers of most galaxies. To get the black holes we see today,…
40th Rocket Lab Electron Mission, “We Love The Nightlife”, Launches From New Zealand with Reused Engine
Private space company, Rocket Lab, launched its 40th Electron mission on their lauded Electron rocket, dubbed “We Love The Nightlife”,…
Pulsars Detected the Background Gravitational Hum of the Universe. Now Can They Detect Single Mergers?
After over a decade of observations of pulsars, astronomers could finally tease out the gravitational wave background of the Universe,…
India's Rover Rolls Out Onto the Lunar Surface
Shortly after it landed on the lunar surface, Indian-'s Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully deployed its Pragyan rover.
A Giant Black Hole Destroyed a Star and Threw the Pieces Into Space
A pair of X-ray telescopes have observed the messy aftermath of a star that came too close to a supermassive…
Hackers are Attacking Observatories
Why would anybody want to hack an observatory? That's the question facing IT professionals at NOIRLab after somebody tried to…
IceCube-Gen2: 8 Cubic Kilometers of Ice, 5 Times the Sensitivity
The IceCube Neutrino Detector is an observatory unlike any other. Using sensors embedded inside a square kilometer chuck of Antarctic…