Godspeed, Uhura: A Bit of Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols Will Go to Space
Nichelle Nichols, who blazed a trail for Black actors as Lieutenant Uhura on the original "Star Trek," never got to…
New Horizons Could Still Have More Adventures Ahead
Remember New Horizons? That plucky little spacecraft that gave us our first up-close looks at Pluto and Arrokoth? Of course,…
Want to Live on Mars? Here's Where the Water is
By combining data from the Mars Express and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a team of researchers has produced a map of…
Colliding Black Holes Provide Another way to Measure Distance in the Universe
Astronomers can use the gravitational waves of merging black holes to measure cosmic expansion.
Astronauts Going to Mars Will Receive Many Lifetimes Worth of Radiation
In a recent study published in Space Physics, an international team of researchers discuss an in-depth study examining the long-term…
Samples From Asteroid Ryugu Contain Bits That Came From Outside the Solar System
Long before our Sun began to form, stars were dying in our part of the galaxy. One of them exploded…
Gaze Into the Heart of NGC 1365, Captured by Webb
Astrophotographer Judy Schmidt (aka. Geckzilla, SpaceGeck) is at it again! Earlier this month, she released a processed image of the…
Firefly, Northrop Grumman to Redesign Antares
Northrop Grumman will partner with startup Firefly Aerospace, to continue sending cargo to the International Space Station.
Rare “Red Sprites” Seen From ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile
This new image taken of the skies above Chile’s Atacama Desert near the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) La Silla Observatory,…
The Latest Webb Observations Don’t Disprove The Big Bang, But They Are Interesting
New observations from the JWST don't disprove the big bang any more than Hubble did.