A team of astronomers led by the Carnegie Institution for Science has publicly released an immense catalog of observations on nearby stars.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
Mars has a new hot spot for exploration, according to researchers who’ve identified a region that shows signs it was once flooded with water.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
Preliminary results suggest that astronauts will be able to propagate potatoes in Mars-like soil and conditions.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
NASA is developing an array of robotic ice tools that may help uncover the frozen secrets of alien worlds.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
Russia’s deputy Prime Minister took to Twitter last week to praise and defend his country’s gun-toting space robot, FEDOR.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
Scientists have discovered a variety of landslides on the Texas-sized asteroid Ceres. Among the geological flow features was a familiar face.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
The Planet Foundation wants your help observing nearby exoplanets for life, seeking support via a Kickstarter campaign launched this week.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
Researchers raised a concern about small particles that could pose a big threat if they collide with orbiting spacecraft.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
The ELT will boast a main mirror that’s 128 feet in diameter, which will make it the largest telescope on Earth once complete.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
Hundreds of documents from Carl Sagan's office are being auctioned off by RR Auction with an estimated sale price of $3,000.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
ESA is looking into magnetic attraction for space debris and derelict satellite removal and to keep swarms of satellites in close formation.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
BepiColombo is a joint mission to study Mercury, the least explored rocky planet and the one closest to the Sun.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
Students in the isolation experiment will be expected to live self-sufficiently, recycling everything from human waste to plant clippings.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
Thanks to computer models and 30-year-old data from a supernova, astronomers have been able to map the inside of this event.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
Four Earth-sized planets orbit our nearest Sun-like star, Tau Ceti, two of which are potentially habitable.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
ISS astronauts will attempt to grow a lung, which researchers will use to study how lung tissue is affected by longterm spaceflight
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
NASA and Roscosmos have announced Deep Space Gateway, a lunar station concept that would place a space station in an orbit close to the moon.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
Using high-resolution satellite data, researchers have found that lava tubes could provide space for homes, streets, and even communities.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
The Unistellar telescope enhances the image of objects in the sky by accumulating and amplifying the light that they’re emitting.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
An unusual asteroid has visited our solar system, but it wasn't born here. Astronomers used orbital calculations to determine its origin.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
According to a new study, Astronomers think they have an explanation for the unpredictably blinking star RZ Piscium. It eats planets.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
The mysterious "Tabby's Star" is more likely surrounded by dust than encircled in an energy-absorbing alien megastructure, new study finds.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
In a first, NASA has demonstrated X-ray navigation in space, paving the way for autonomous spacecraft in deep space.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
At long last, astronauts on the moon may have access to their very own 4G network thanks to a partnerships between a few tech giants and a team of “part-time” scientists.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
Bizarre geometric storms measuring several thousands miles across, surround a massive cyclone on each of Jupiter's poles.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
Thousands of previously unknown craters have been spotted on the moon thanks to an artificial intelligence program designed by researchers at the University of Toronto.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
At its core, the search for exoplanets is the search for habitable exoplanets and AI may now help make that hunt easier. Using machine learning algorithms, the researchers were able to calculate how well exoplanets could survive in stable orbits, outperforming scientists who made a career out of stuff like this.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
NASA has once again delayed the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope -- the largest and most expensive space telescope in history. The new target launch is March 2021, and the cost of the project has ballooned to $9.6 billion.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
In a paper published online this week in The Astronomical Journal, an international group of scientists reported that dozens of planetary candidates have been identified by measuring light fluctuations using K2, the mission that followed up NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
For the past 28 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured some of the most iconic images of outer space. Now, as Mars and Saturn have swung by the Earth in recent months, the legendary telescope has snapped a handful of beautiful images to add to an already impressive collection.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
To get a better understanding of what habitats might look like on Mars, NASA partnered with Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois for its 3D-Printed Habitat Centennial Challenge competition. The agency recently announced the five winners of the latest phase.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
For the first time, astronomers have confirmed Einstein’s century-old theory of general relativity in action near a black hole. An international team of professional sky-gazers and observed gravitational redshift around a supermassive black hole.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
Streetwear designer Heron Preston celebrated Nasa's 60th birthday by releasing a line of spacesuit-inspired streetwear, including hoodies, jackets, pants, hats, belts, socks, and a backpack. To promote the collection, he launched a stylish mannequin up to the stratosphere.
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |
Omega Centauri is a sight to behold. It contains some 10 million stars, making it the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way. And at about 16,000 light years away, it is visible to the naked eye and a prime object of observation for professional astronomers. But does it host life?
| Space News | April 28, 2022 |