New Photos and Video Shows China’s Zhurong Rover on the Move
New images from orbit and from Mars’ surface show the Zhurong rover on the move. China’s National Space Administration (CNSA)…
Modern Solar Eclipse Science: Huge Coronal Mass Ejection Caught in Action
There’s an old adage that says there is ‘nothing new under the Sun…’ but that doesn’t apply when it comes…
A Lunar Farside Telescope Could Detect Exoplanets Through Their Magnetospheres
Earth's ionosphere blocks us from seeing radio aurora on distant worlds, but a radio telescope on the Moon would let…
Most Exoplanets won’t Receive Enough Radiation to Support an Earth-Like Biosphere
According to new research, most extrasolar planets do not get enough radiation to support photosynthesis, which places limits on how…
LightSail 2 Has Now Been in Space for 2 Years, and Should Last Even Longer Before Re-Entering the Atmosphere
The Planetary Society's crowdfunded solar-sailing CubeSat, LightSail 2, launched on June 25th 2019, and two years later the mission is…
Gravitational-Wave Detector Could Sense Merging Primordial Black Holes With the Mass of a Planet, Millions of Light-Years Away
A new idea for detecting gravitational waves might allow us to discover planet-mass primordial black holes.
The First Chinese Crew is Busy on their New Space Station
In the past week, the first three Chinese astronauts to go the Tiangong space station prepared for all the operations…
Virgin Galactic Wins FAA’s OK to Fly Space Passengers: Which Billionaire Will Go First?
Virgin Galactic says it's received the Federal Aviation Administration's go-ahead to fly customers on its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, marking a…
Long-Awaited UFO Report Opens the Door Wider to Sharing Strange Aerial Sightings
After months of anticipation, U.S. intelligence experts have released a report citing 18 incidents since 2004 in which unidentified flying…
Aliens in 2,034 Nearby Star Systems Could use the Transit Method to see Earth
New research shows that a handful of nearby stars that are known to have planets could have been watching Earth…