Crew-7 Reaches the International Space Station

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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?

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

The IceCube Neutrino Detector is an observatory unlike any other. Using sensors embedded inside a square kilometer chuck of Antarctic…

One of Neptune's Dark Spots Finally Seen From Earth

1 year ago

Using the ESO's VLT, an international team of observers was able to study Neptune's Great Dark Spot with a ground-based…