Category: Science & Space

The astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station wish that we could all see Earth as they just did.An orbital view reveals the immense beauty of our blue planet, the only world we know of that hosts life. But it…

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Stephen Cash director of the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, effective Monday, Oct. 19. Cash, a veteran NASA engineer and aerospace executive, returns to lead the center…

In the near future, powerful new telescopes will power a big leap in exoplanet science. Telescopes like the Extremely Large Telescope, the Giant Magellan Telescope, and the Habitable Worlds Observatory will take us beyond exoplanet…

Shortly after NASA’s Artemis II mission splashed down on April 10, 2026, U.S. Navy divers captured underwater imagery of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. In the months after, the agency measured whether the thermal protection system…

Seven billion light-years from Earth, there is an unexpected cluster of galaxies. It has two regions in the process of colliding with each other with a combined mass of more than two quadrillion solar masses. Given its mass, the distant…

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827, located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove. Hubble captured the image as part of a survey looking at…

Two leading space scientists say there is a need to redefine the edge of the solar system by presenting a theory which states that measurements of the Milky Way’s gravitational field, including its dark matter, redraws the sun’s frontier.That…

This image over part of West Antarctica was captured by Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 30 September 2026.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution.At this time of year, winter is coming to an end in the southern hemisphere and the…

After a quiet start to the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, Isaias became the season’s first hurricane on October 8 as it tracked toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. The storm brought heavy rain and flash flooding to parts of the Southeast,…

Today, the question of where life’s building blocks come from is largely settled. Thanks to numerous discoveries in recent decades, scientists have confirmed that the organic molecules are found in space. In addition, recent research has…