BluShift Aerospace Tests MAREVL Engine, Eyes Move to Kennedy Space Center

By David Dickinson - April 06, 2022 09:18 AM UTC | Space Exploration

With the first test of its MAREVL Engine complete, Maine's space launch startup bluShift Aerospace looks to expand operations.

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Cultured Meat Could Keep Astronauts fed in Space

By Matthew Williams - April 05, 2022 10:43 PM UTC | Space Exploration

The ESA is investigating lab-grown meat as a possible application of feeding astronauts on long-duration missions away from Earth.

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What a Feat! Ingenuity Photographed From Space

By Evan Gough - April 05, 2022 06:49 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Hubble Has Been Watching This Planet Form for 13 Years

By Evan Gough - April 05, 2022 04:25 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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Lasers Recreate the Conditions Inside Galaxy Clusters

By sdice - April 05, 2022 11:27 AM UTC | Extragalactic

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According to Perseverance, Mars is Quiet... too Quiet

By sjohnston - April 04, 2022 06:07 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Primordial Helium, Left Over From the Big Bang, is Leaking Out of the Earth

By Evan Gough - April 04, 2022 05:33 PM UTC | Cosmology

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The Milky Way has an Inner Ring, Just Outside the Core

By Matthew Williams - April 04, 2022 03:06 PM UTC | Milky Way

Combining data from the APOGEE survey and the Gaia Observatory with sophisticated models, a team of scientists has found a new ring structure in the Milky Way!

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The ExoMars Rover is Ready, now it Just Needs a new Ride to Mars

By Matthew Williams - April 03, 2022 05:00 PM UTC | Missions

With the recent termination of cooperation between the ESA and Roscosmos, the Rosalind Franklin rover will need another way to get to Mars

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NASA Will be Testing SLS Over the Weekend

By Matthew Williams - April 02, 2022 04:50 PM UTC | Missions

NASA will be conducting a Wet Dress Rehearsal with the SLS rocket this weekend in preparation for its maiden flight!

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Stunning Image of ISS Taken From the Ground Shows two Spacewalking Astronauts

By Evan Gough - April 01, 2022 06:31 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Pluto's Surface was Shaped by Ice Volcanoes

By Evan Gough - April 01, 2022 05:08 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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New Simulation Recreates an Early Time in the Universe That Still Hasn't Been Seen Directly

By Matthew Williams - March 31, 2022 11:04 PM UTC | Cosmology

A new simulation suite created by an international team of scientists shows what the James Webb will be seeing soon!

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Europa Could be Pulling Oxygen Down Below the Ice to Feed Life

By Evan Gough - March 31, 2022 04:07 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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Supermassive Black Holes Shut Down Star Formation

By Brian Koberlein - March 31, 2022 01:03 PM UTC | Black Holes

Supermassive black holes play a central role to weaken star production in their galaxies.

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NASA Astronaut and Cosmonauts Land Safely Together in Kazakhstan

By Nancy Atkinson - March 31, 2022 10:18 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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A New Record! Hubble Detects an Individual Star From a Time When the Universe Was Less Than a Billion Years Old

By Alan Boyle - March 30, 2022 05:04 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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ESA's Solar Orbiter Takes a Ludicrously High Resolution Image of the Sun

By David Dickinson - March 30, 2022 10:39 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter snaps an amazing image, en route to its first close pass near the Sun.

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This is Where the Mars Sample Return Mission Could be Landing

By Evan Gough - March 29, 2022 05:26 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Astronomers Come up With a New Message to let the Aliens Know we're Here

By Matthew Williams - March 29, 2022 05:11 PM UTC | Astrobiology

An international team of researchers has composed an updated Arecibo Message, known as the Beacon in the Galaxy (BITG) Message.

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