Nancy Atkinson
We've Seen a Helicopter on Mars. Next, Sailplanes?
The success of the Mars Ingenuity helicopter has encouraged engineers to consider and reconsider all options for remote aerial observations…
Cygnus Boosts the International Space Station for the First Time. NASA Can Now Potentially Keep the Station Aloft Without Russia’s Progress Spacecraft
Northrup Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft conducted a successful reboost of the International Space Station over the past weekend, on Saturday,…
A Star has Grown Spiral Arms
Astronomers using the ALMA Observatory have discovered an unusual, massive star near the center of our galaxy, a star that…
Rocket Lab Launches NASA’s CAPSTONE Mission to the Moon
A microwave oven–sized cubesat launched to space today from New Zealand by commercial company Rocket Lab and their Electron rocket.…
This Tiny Dot is one of the Biggest, Most Active Galaxy Superclusters Ever Seen. It Was Already a Monster Shortly After the Big Bang
A newly discovered supercluster of galaxies is so distant that astronomers say its light has been traveling for over twelve…
A Totally new View of the Large Magellanic Cloud (and more!) From Retired Telescopes
ESA and NASA dusted off some old data from four retired space telescopes and combined forces to reveal new images…
This Bizarre Terrain on Mars is Caused by Water Ice and Carbon Dioxide
From orbit, this landscape on Mars looks like a lacy honeycomb or a spider web. But the unusual polygon-shaped features…
Want to Own a Meteorite from Geoff Notkin’s Personal Collection?
For nearly 30 years Geoff Notkin has traveled the world in search of meteorites, those ancient relics from outer space…
Astronomers Watched a “Near-Sun” Comet Disintegrate as it Flew too Close to the Sun
Comets that venture close to the Sun can transform into something beautiful, but sometimes they encounter incineration if they get…
Using the Sun as a Gravitational Lens Would Let Us See Exoplanets With Incredible Resolution
Have you ever seen wispy arcs and rings in astronomical images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories?…