Starship Could be Ready for an Orbital Flight in May
According to Elon Musk's latest updates, the Starship could be ready to fly with the new Raptor engines by May
NASA's Upcoming SPHEREx Mission Will map the Entire Universe in Infrared Every 6 Months
The JWST will only capture a small portion of the infrared sky. To see more, we need a satellite like…
These are Star Dunes on Mars, Formed When the Wind Comes From Many Different Directions
Missions to Mars are expensive, even orbiters. They're there to do science, not take pretty pictures. But sometimes Mars' beauty…
NASA’s Roman Mission Might Tell Us if the Universe Will Tear Itself Apart in the Future
NASA's Nancy Gracy Roman Space Telescope won't launch until 2027, and it won't start operating until some time after that.…
The Sun Didn't Have any Sunspots for 70 Years, now we Might Know why
A study of nearly 60 stars lets us understand why our Sun was once quiet for 70 years.
Asteroid Ryugu Might Actually Be a Dead Comet
In 2014, the Japanese Space Agency JAXA launched the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft to visit asteroid Ryugu. It arrived at the…
Astronomers See the Wreckage Where Planets Crashed Into Each Other in a Distant Star System
Our Solar System was born in chaos. Collisions shaped and built the Earth and the other planets, and even delivered…
New Radio Images of Bizarre “Odd Radio Circles” Which are Vastly Bigger Than the Milky Way
Strange galaxy-sized circles are emitting radio light, and we don't know why.
Astronomers Discover two Supermassive Black Holes Orbiting Each Other, Doomed to Collide in the Future.
Until recently, one of the closest orbiting each other pairs of supermassive blackholes was found in NGC 7727. That pair…
Three Cosmonauts Arrive at the ISS Wearing Bright Yellow Jumpsuits
Seriously, what was up with those yellow uniforms? Not much, it seems! Things aboard the ISS are as they've always…