Icy exoplanets may contain habitable oceans, new NASA study suggests
Habitable oceans and geysers may exist on icy exoplanets, a new NASA study has suggested. The study recently expanded the search for life beyond our …
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper, its Starlink competitor, could launch in 2024
Starlink is the company that often comes to mind when we think of satellite internet. Sorry, HughesNet, but Elon Musk’s SpaceX sister brand really took …
Communication with Voyager 1 hits yet another glitch
Communication with NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is currently on hold as the iconic probe has suffered another glitch. Voyager 1 was the victim of another …
ULA calls off Christmas launch for Peregrine lander, delayed to 2024
The upcoming historic launch of Astrobiotic’s Peregrine lander was originally set for Christmas Eve. However, a new update from the United Launch Alliance (ULA) has …
Origin of life on Earth might not have come from the stars after all
The origin of life on Earth has always been a mystery. For many years, scientists have looked to the stars, believing that the building blocks …
Cosmonauts dock Russian cargo ship remotely after its autopilot glitched
A Russian cargo ship carrying 5,600 pounds of fresh supplies for the International Space Station suffered a terrible glitch, forcing cosmonauts aboard the ISS to …
Mystery star at the heart of the Milky Way may be from another galaxy
A mystery star located at the heart of the Milky Way could very well be from another galaxy, new research shows. The star is known …
NASA shares first images from iconic asteroid spacecraft
NASA’s Psyche mission is already 16 million miles away from Earth, barreling toward its targeted asteroid, where it will conduct a full study of the …
James Webb spots cosmic ghost hiding in plain sight
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed a mysterious, ghostly object that we’ve been spotting for years. The object, which is entirely undetectable by the …
Humanity’s return to the Moon could be in for a huge delay – GAO study explains why
NASA’s Artemis missions are set to be some of the most iconic of the decade, finally putting human boots back on the Moon for the …
How bugs could help us grow food on Mars
NASA’s hopes to put humans on Mars and one day settle the Red Planet as humanity’s second home could very well rely on some of …
NASA pauses Hubble science missions due to fault gyro
NASA has paused all of the Hubble space telescope’s current science missions due to a gyro glitch, the space agency has shared. The issue first …
This rare solar system has six planets moving in synchrony
The Milky Way is full of strange galaxies and cosmic discoveries just to be made. Case in point, a new solar system discovered by NASA’s …
Scientists keep finding more reasons why humans aren’t built for space
Turns out, humans just aren’t built for space. That might seem like an understatement. After all, there isn’t any oxygen in space, and we kind …
James Webb detected methane in an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time
The James Webb Space Telescope is so powerful that it has given us new glimpses into the mysteries of the early universe. Scientists have also …
NASA successfully tests new inflatable heat shield
Over a year ago, NASA’s Artemis I mission returned to Earth, completing a round-trip journey around the Moon and back. As it barreled through the …
James Webb reveals never-before-seen details at the center of the Milky Way
The Milky Way is a vast galaxy, and while it may be our home, scientists are still discovering new things about it. The latest photos …
China wants to complete a Mars sample return mission before NASA
China wants to steal NASA’s thunder by launching a Mars sample return mission that brings back Martian soil and rocks roughly two years before the …
James Webb spots exoplanet with sand clouds and sulfur-filled skies
The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed something intriguing about a gas giant exoplanet known as WASP-107b. The Neptune-like gas giant currently orbits a star …
Re-experience NASA’s historic Artemis I mission
Last year, NASA made history once again by launching the first of its Artemis missions. The Artemis I mission saw the agency’s Orion spacecraft travel …
NASA pauses Mars Sample Return mission due to ongoing budget issues
NASA’s iconic mission to bring back samples of Martian soil and rocks has gone awry. The space agency shared that the Mars Sample Return mission …
The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is spinning faster than we thought
A new paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has proposed something quite intriguing. According to the authors of that …
NASA can’t communicate with its Mars robots and the Sun’s to blame
NASA’s various Mars exploration robots are on their own, at least for the next few weeks. The space agency isn’t able to communicate directly with …
Martian rocks keep hitting Earth, but something doesn’t add up
For thousands of years, Martian rocks have bombarded Earth, sent flying through space after being ejected from their homeworld by violent impacts or volcanic processes. …
Earth microbes could help astronauts grow plants in lunar soil
Future missions to the Moon could see astronauts growing the first plants on the lunar surface. But, getting lunar soil to grow plants has been …
Webb and Hubble team up to capture galactic collision in breathtaking detail
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the now-aging Hubble telescope have joined forces to capture observations of a beautiful galactic collision. The new images captured …
Scientists detect oxygen on Venus’s dayside for the first time ever
Scientists have now captured direct detections of oxygen on the daylight side of Venus. This discovery could teach researchers more about the atmosphere on Venus. …
Lucy discovers yet another surprise during Dinkinesh flyby
Earlier this month, NASA’s Lucy probe completed its first flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh, discovering that it actually was part of a binary pair with …
Astronomers discover record-breaking black hole from early universe
Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole we have ever seen. The record-breaking black hole was discovered using the combined data of NASA’s Chandra …
ESA’s Euclid telescope shares first images from dark universe mission
The European Space Agency hopes to create the most extensive 3D map of our universe yet, and it plans to do so with the Euclid …
