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Description NASAs Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of a rock nicknamed Atacama on May 6, 2026, the 4,877th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The rock had gotten stuck to the ...

Star Catcher Industries just raised $65 million to build a constellation of power-beaming satellites, which the Florida company thinks will supercharge the off-Earth economy.

SpaceX is officially targeting May 19 for the debut of Starship Version 3, an advanced new vehicle that could help humanity take its first steps on the moon and Mars.

SpaceX has the FCCs blessing to buy EchoStar spectrum to improve direct-to-device services in the United States, subject to a $2.4 billion escrow tied to disputes over the sellers abandoned terrestrial 5G network buildou...

The estimate is over 20 years; space-based interceptors would account for most of the cost

Jupiter, the gravitational behemoth that makes up a lions share of our solar systems planetary content, is much more complicated than ever previously thought. Or so say leaders from NASAs highly successful Juno mission.

"Rather than 'icy' or 'rocky,' we should simply call them minor giants."

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, is also the solar system's largest satellite, even larger than the planet Mercury. It is also the only celestial body aside from Earth (and the gas giants) to have an intrinsic m...

Gravitational wave researchers working on the world's most sensitive scientific instruments have found a way to tune their detectors using a process akin to the pitch-correction used in music production.

At a busy airport, every aircraft in the area shares just a handful of radio frequencies. Spectrum and time are constrained and if multiple people speak at once, both messages can get lost. Communications like clearance ...

Quantum Space announced May 12 it will build the companys highly maneuverable spacecraft in Tulsa, Oklahoma, home to the companys new chief executive.

If you've ever taken an introductory astronomy class, you've probably seen the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram. This graph maps out the life cycle of stars by plotting their temperature against their luminosity,...

Using AI and Rubin Observatory data, scientists are rethinking Type 1a supernova "standard candles," hunting for "unknown unknowns" that could lead us to missing ingredients in our recipe of the cosmos an...

NASAs Perseverance rover recently took a self-portrait against a sweeping backdrop of ancient Martian terrain at a location the science team calls Lac de Charmes. Assembled from 61 individual images, the selfie shows Per...

The cosmological constant has been a problem in physics since Einstein, but new research may show why it takes the value that it does despite quantum fluctuations that should make its value practically infinite.

Cornell astronomers are deploying a new instrument that grants them, for the first time, a better view of the universe's earliest galaxies, which can't be observed individually with traditional ground- or space-b...

NASAs Perseverance Mars rover recently took a self-portrait against a sweeping backdrop of ancient Martian terrain at a location the science team calls Lac de Charmes. Assembled from 61 individual images, the selfie show...

Description NASAs Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this panorama of an area nicknamed Arbot on April 5, 2026, the 1,882nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission, during the rovers deepest push we...

Description NASAs Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on March 11, 2026, the 1,797th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, during the rovers deepest push west beyond Jezero Crater. Assembled from 61 individual images...

The galaxy cluster Abell 2029 is sometimes described as "the most relaxed cluster in the universe." This moniker does not arise from some sort of mellow vibe, but rather because of how calm and undisturbed the su...

The razor-thin crescent moon meets Saturn and Mars in the glow of the rising sun on May 14.

Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, but the only way it interacts with its surroundings is through gravity. If two colliding black holes spiral through a dense region of dark matter and ...