New Clues to the Formation of Globular Clusters: Their Ultramassive Stars
New images from JWST have revealed the light from a globular cluster in this earliest epoch, showing that it contains…
NASA Shuts Down the Lunar Flashlight Mission After it Fails to Go into Orbit
NASA missions can be categorized into two types. One type includes headline-grabbing missions, such as the JWST or New Horizons,…
NASA Tests a Robotic Snake That Could Explore Other Worlds
Rovers have enabled some amazing explorations of other worlds like the Moon and Mars. However, rovers are limited by the…
Hurray! Juice Deploys its Stuck Antenna
ESA's Juice mission launched last month on April 14, beginning its long journey to explore Jupiter's icy moons, Ganymede, Europa,…
NASA is Getting Serious About Building and Assembling Future Missions… in Space
Most people involved in some product development have had a lousy supply chain experience at least once in their careers.…
What Cassini’s “Grand Finale” Taught Us About Saturn’s Interior
Six years ago the Cassini spacecraft, which had spent nearly two decades in orbit around Saturn, finished its mission with…
62 New Moons Found for Saturn
Jupiter is the King, Earth is teeming with life, Venus is a weird, spacecraft-crushing hellhole, and now Saturn has the…
ESA Wants Your Ideas for Living off the Land… on the Moon
Challenges have been a mainstay of space exploration for several years at this point. In the past, they have ranged…
Two Super-Earths Found Orbiting a Red Dwarf Star at the Edge of the Habitable Zone
NASA's TESS mission has turned up hundreds of planets and planetary candidates, and here are two more.
The Moon Occults Jupiter Wednesday Morning for North America
Be sure to set your alarm for early Wednesday morning, for one of the best occultations of 2023.