A study supported by the French Space Agency describes a "reusability kit" that will make any first stage booster retrievable.

Astronomy is a visual science, gathering data with electromagnetic radiation with different detectors, including our eyes. Now experts have converted various visual images into sonograms, allowing you to listen to the pictures. This is perfect for people with vision problems but also allows a different sense to spot exciting features that your eyes might miss. They've also created tactile versions of astronomical objects so you can feel the structures of galaxies, black holes, and star-forming nebulae with your hands.

Comet C/2023 E1 ATLAS skirts the northern pole for summer northern hemisphere observers.

China's Zhurong rover measured the magnetic environment on Mars, which is helping scientists narrow down when its global magnetic field disappeared.

Japan's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) will include a Phobos exploration rover provided by the French and German space agencies.

Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets using the transit technique, watching how distant stars dim as a planet passes in between us and the star. A small group of stars is lined up so alien astronomers can discover Earth using the same transit technique. In a new paper, researchers suggest that the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Telescope should scan this Earth's transiting zone for habitable planets. If there are other advanced civilizations there, they should know we're here and would be the ideal places to search for signs of intelligence.

Astronomers continue to find more and more of the building blocks of life out in space. This time, researchers have announced the discovery of the amino acid tryptophan. They used data from the Spitzer Space Telescope when it observed the Perseus Molecular Complex in the IC348 star system located about 1,000 light-years from Earth. Tryptophan is one of the 20 essential amino acids used in protein formation by life on Earth. It produces a rich spectral signature in infrared, so it was the ideal target for Spitzer and will make an excellent follow-on objective for JWST.

More spacecraft is due to fly to Mars and will send their data home. Human explorers will want to access research documents and communicate the findings to Earth. This will require extending Earth's internet to Mars. A new study suggests that Mars will eventually require its constellation of satellites, provide local computing at Mars, and supply as much information as possible locally.

The early Solar System was a turbulent and chaotic place with icy material hurled far from the Sun, becoming the Oort Cloud. Larger objects and planets were probably hurled into the Oort Cloud too, and some might have been kicked out of the Solar System entirely. If a similar situation happened in other star systems, planets could lurk out in the Oort Cloud.

Dark stars are hypothetical objects that might have been present in the early Universe before the first stars and even modern supermassive black holes formed. A new study suggests that the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Telescope could detect them when it comes online.

Astronomers have found a brown dwarf companion to a white dwarf star with a day-side temperature of around 8,000 kelvin and a night-side of 6,000 kelvin lower.