Deep Space

How ‘safe mode’ protects space telescopes like Hubble and TESS

What could bears and space telescopes possibly have in common? Last month, both the Hubble Space Telescope and the Transiting...

SpaceX reveals new sleek spacesuits ahead of upcoming historic mission

SpaceX has revealed its new Extravehicular Activity (EVA) suits that could make their low-Earth orbital debut by summer’s end. The...

Why Venus is so dry

Despite being Earth’s sister planet in terms of size, Venus is pretty parched compared to our watery world. New computer...

China is en route to collect first-ever samples from the far side of the moon

China launched its uncrewed Chang’e-6 lunar spacecraft at 5:27 PM local time (5:27 PM EST) on Friday from the southern...

‘Lucy’s baby’ asteroid is only about 2 to 3 million years old

A newly discovered asteroid is a toddler–in space years. The moonlet circling the small asteroid Dinkinesh named Selam is about...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample...

Space Force finds a dead Cold War-era satellite missing for 25 years

The US Space Force located a tiny experimental satellite after it spent two-and-a–half decades missing in orbit. Hopefully, they’ll be...

China compiled the most detailed moon atlas ever mapped

If we want to establish a permanent human presence on the moon, we need more detailed maps than the existing...

Rare quadruple solar flare event captured by NASA

Earlier this week, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded a rarely seen event—four nearly-simultaneous flare eruptions involving three separate sunspots,...

Rare quadruple solar flare event captured by NASA

Earlier this week, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded a rarely seen event—four nearly-simultaneous flare eruptions involving three separate sunspots,...