NASA’s Orion crew module recently reached a significant milestone in preparations for the Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed flight to the moon since Apollo.
Engineers successfully conducted a forward bay cover jettison test at NASA’s…
NASA’s Orion crew module recently reached a significant milestone in preparations for the Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed flight to the moon since Apollo.
Engineers successfully conducted a forward bay cover jettison test at NASA’s…
Dark matter, the invisible stuff that scientists believe makes up around 85 percent of the mass in the universe, remains one of science’s biggest mysteries.
As far as anyone has been able to establish, it can’t be directly observed. The only way…
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An illustration of a supermassive black hole surrounded by dust. | Credit: ESA
A “fast-feeding” black hole that appeared to defy physics is…
Future moon astronauts may find water more accessible than previously thought, according to a new experiment that suggests the sun is replenishing the sought-after resource on the lunar surface.
Because the moon lacks a magnetic field like
John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It’s right next to a model of a NASA space shuttle, which delivered Hubble to space 35 years ago, and it’s no secret why both are there.
Grunsfeld, a former NASA astronaut…
In a significant moment for NASA’s ongoing exploration of Mars, an image taken on February 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows a small speck at the front of a trail of tracks stretching over…
Since 1986 I have had an affiliation with the Hayden Planetarium in New York. My “official” title there is “Associate and Guest Lecturer.” Indeed, through all of these years I given scores of presentations in Hayden’s famous domed Space Theater…
In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery birth like the Big Bang, this idea suggests the cosmos has been growing in sudden, powerful steps — invisible,…