Astronomers have discovered a pair of odd stars that are unlike any other stars they have ever seen before, and that are coated with a perplexing accumulation of peculiar compounds. This cosmic unusual pair may have come into being as a ...
Ever think that Saturn could be so extraordinary? Thanks to an infrared picture of the planet displaying an aurora right at its southern pole, we can witness quite the phenomenon! The occurrence is also unique because it shows a never-before-seen ...
Planets do not take much longer to form after stars have formed. For example, the Sun formed 4.6 billion years ago, and the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. However, scientists now say it is not necessarily the only possibility. ...
NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge is awarding $1 million to public members who can show inventive solutions to the challenge of feeding astronauts on long-term missions. The Issue Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) generally consume canned or dry ...
The International Space Station still has a long way to go before it is decommissioned in 2030, but we’re getting a glimpse of the “space cemetery” where it will be buried. According to NASA’s International Space Station Transition Report, Point ...
This stunning drone footage shows SpaceX launching a spy satellite and landing a rocket. On February 3, SpaceX’s NROL-87 mission was launched and landed by a drone. SpaceX has released a spectacular new film that captures the experience of seeing ...
Establishing a new human colony on another planet provides a chance to experiment with novel concepts. More significantly, it’s a chance to learn from humanity’s previous blunders in habitat construction. Even though we have yet to dominate the moon or ...
Liftoff will occur over a three-hour window beginning at 2:10 p.m. EST (1910 GMT). 12 p.m. ET UPDATE: NEW LAUNCH TIME Astra is now aiming for a 2:10 p.m. EST (1910 GMT) launch from Florida today, the company’s initial East ...
NASA has said that it intends to decommission the International Space Station in 2031 by crashing it into an uninhabited section of the Pacific Ocean. Satellites, like every other technology, do not endure forever. Whether their mission is to watch ...
The NASA TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission just discovered something significant: our own sun is remarkably well-behaved in comparison to its counterparts elsewhere in the cosmos. (Image courtesy of NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory and Getty Images.) According to Universe Today, ...