Nancy Atkinson
Another Meteoroid Discovered Right Before it Hits the Atmosphere
A meteoroid lit up the sky above the English Channel early Monday morning February as it streaked through the atmosphere,…
The Sun Continues its Journey to Solar Maximum, Releasing X-Class Flares
The Sun belted out strong solar flares two days in a row, as activity ramps up toward the next Solar…
New Spacecraft Can See Into the Permanently Shadowed Craters on the Moon
Shackleton Crater at the lunar south pole is one of the locations on NASA’s shortlist for human exploration with the…
Images From Three Telescopes Merged Into One Spectacular Picture of the Sun
You’ve probably never seen our Sun look like this before. This bizarre image of old Sol is made from data…
A Russian Satellite Has Broken Into Pieces, Littering Debris in Space
A Russian KOSMOS 2499 satellite broke up last month -- for a second time -- according to the Space Force's…
New Discoveries Puts Jupiter at 92 Known Moons
The moon hunter strikes again. A team of astronomers led by Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution has found and…
Sierra Space Tests Another Inflatable Space Station Module … to Destruction
Oops! They’ve done it again. Sierra Space blew up their space habitat for the third time – intentionally -- all…
JWST Unexpectedly Finds a Small Asteroid During ‘Failed’ Observations
While astronomers and engineers were trying to calibrate one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s instruments last summer, they serendipitously…
Drag Sail Success! This Satellite Won't Turn Into Space Junk
The European Space Agency successfully tested a solar-sail-type device to speed up the deorbit time for a used cubesat carrier…
Good News! Webb is Fully Operational Again
The James Webb Space Telescope is back to full science operations. One of the telescope’s instruments, the Near Infrared Imager…