Category: 2. Space

Written by Alex Innanen, atmospheric scientist at York University

Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025

It’s my second shift of the week as the Environmental theme lead and keeper of the plan (a bit of a mouthful we…

A galaxy spotted just 330 million years after the Big Bang has been implicated in bringing light to the choking dark of the early Universe.

It’s called JADES-GS-z13-1, and an analysis of the very faint light it has sent from more than 13.4…

A career path can unfold in unexpected ways. Ask NASA’s Rebecca Mataya.

The journey to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, was not planned but “meant to be,” she said.

While working for a local business, the…

Right now, the remains of three private spacecraft rest on the moon, with one more lost in Earth orbit. And that is incredible.

First came Israel’s Beresheet, which crashed on the lunar surface in 2019. Next was Astrobotic’s Peregrine,…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Beginning this spring, Andrew Jones will be explaining the business, politics and technology in Chinese space activities as part of a new biweekly newsletter. Sign up now to receive the first edition in your inbox when it…

WASHINGTON — The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has denied a protest from a company over a contract that is part of the Office of Space Commerce’s space traffic coordination system.

In a decision publicly released March 26, the…

The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This galaxy is situated 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus, the Wolf, and classified as a ‘flocculent’ spiral,…

What drives us to send probes throughout the Solar System and rovers and landers to Mars? It’s not cheap, and it’s not easy. It’s because we live inside a big, natural puzzle, and we want to understand it.

That’s one reason. But the main…