Pluto flyby mission wakes up after long sleep nearly 6 billion miles from Earth
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently came out of hibernation to continue its journey through an unexplored part of the solar…
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admin Fireball over New York City was a rare meteorite containing evidence of extraterrestrial water
A meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024 is a rare, primitive space rock containing evidence of…
Astronomers detect sugar in interstellar space for the first time
Astronomers detect erythrulose, a sugar key to the origins of life, in interstellar space for the first time.
Mystery spheres on beach are likely space debris that fell back to Earth
Metal spheres recently found on a beach in northern Queensland, Australia, draw attention to the worsening issue of space pollution.
Elon Musk’s plans refer to an idea conceived in the 1960s. What is the Kardashev scale?
A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is still…
Aviation pioneer Wally Funk, who trained as an early female astronaut, dies at 87
Aviation pioneer Wally Funk, who finally went to space half a century after training to be a female astronaut, has…
Sick of Earth? NASA is recruiting volunteers for a yearlong Moon and Mars simulation
For anyone who has ever wondered whether they could handle life on another planet, NASA is offering a chance to…
Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen announces space agency retirement weeks after historic moon mission
The Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, who captivated the world during the historic moon mission, said Monday he’d soon step…
A 3,200-pound space observatory may soon fall from orbit. A risky endeavor just launched to save it
A first-of-its-kind mission launched Friday in the hopes of preventing NASA’s Swift Observatory from dropping out of low-Earth orbit.
What will happen to our solar system when the sun dies? Exoplanet system may offer preview
A Jupiter-size exoplanet orbiting a dead star baffled astronomers. But the planet named WD 1856 b could preview the fate…