SOFIA Follows the Sulfur for Clues on Stellar Evolution
A high-flying space telescope is shedding light on where some of the basic building blocks for life may have originated…
Metal Asteroid Psyche Might Have Had Volcanoes of Molten Iron
Imagine a time in the Solar System's past, when the asteroids were not solid rock, but blobs of molten iron.…
Messier 83 – the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
Located in the direction of the Hydra constellation, over 15 million light years from Earth, is the barred spiral galaxy…
Hayabusa2 Fires an Anti-Tank Warhead at Asteroid Ryugu
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft recently struck the asteroid Ryugu with an explosive payload, which will help it collect samples that could…
Now We Know That Dark Matter Isn’t Primordial Black Holes
A new study by an international team of scientists has tested Hawking's theory of dark matter, and ruled out that…
Mars Express Saw the Same Methane Spike that Curiosity Detected from the Surface of Mars
If you're not a chemist, an astrobiologist, or a scientist of any sort, and that includes most of us, then…
The Starhops Have Begun!
After a minor delay, SpaceX has conducted the first successful hop test of their Starship Hopper, a key step in…
India Destroyed a Satellite With a Missile Last Week, and Pieces Were Thrown Into an Orbit That Risks the International Space Station
Last week, India shot down one of its own satellites with a missile. According to NASA, the resulting debris field…
Mars Helicopter Completes More Test Flights. It’s Almost Ready to go to Mars
We've known for some time that NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars. The vehicle, called the Mars Helicopter, is…
Starhopper Tests Have Gotten Delayed Because of “Ice Formation in the Cryogenic Propellant Prevalves”
A technical issue has led to the "hop test" of the miniature version of the SpaceX Starship to be delayed…