How to Prevent our Spacecraft From Contaminating Mars

By Matthew Williams - October 14, 2021 04:22 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new report by the National Academies of Sciences highlights the importance of planetary protection for future missions destined for Mars.

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Why Visit Just one Moon When you Could Explore Them all?

By Evan Gough - October 14, 2021 03:54 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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The Biggest Comet Ever Seen Will get as Close as Saturn in 2031

By Nancy Atkinson - October 14, 2021 03:10 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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China's FAST Telescope Could Detect Self-Replicating Alien Probes

By Andy Tomaswick - October 14, 2021 01:18 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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Advanced Civilizations Could use Their Stars to Communicate (and as Telescopes)

By Matthew Cimone - October 14, 2021 10:46 AM UTC | Astrobiology

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Images of 42 of the Biggest Asteroids in the Solar System

By Nancy Atkinson - October 13, 2021 05:15 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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You Can Blow Up an Asteroid Just a few Months Before it Hits Earth and Prevent 99% of the Damage

By Evan Gough - October 13, 2021 03:01 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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LOFAR Sees Strange Radio Signals Hinting at Hidden Exoplanets

By David Dickinson - October 13, 2021 01:06 PM UTC | Exoplanets

LOFAR sees 'exoplanet aurorae' near distant red dwarf suns.

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Webb has Arrived Safely at the Launch Site

By Nancy Atkinson - October 13, 2021 10:28 AM UTC | Telescopes

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Next Generation Telescopes Could Detect the Direct Collapse of Enormous Black Holes Near the Beginning of Time

By Paul Sutter - October 13, 2021 08:57 AM UTC | Black Holes

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BepiColombo's First Pictures of Mercury

By Andy Tomaswick - October 12, 2021 10:33 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Greenland's Ice Sheet is Similar in Many Ways to the Solar System's Icy Worlds and Can Teach Us How to Search for Life

By Evan Gough - October 12, 2021 04:43 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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The Astronauts who Would Have Tested Starliner Have Been Reassigned to an Upcoming SpaceX Crew Dragon Launch

By Matthew Williams - October 12, 2021 04:21 PM UTC | Missions

NASA has taken the two astronauts selected to test the Starliner and reassigned them to fly the fifth SpaceX Dragon mission to the ISS.

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'Glowing' Sand Dune Erosion on the Side of a Martian Crater

By Nancy Atkinson - October 12, 2021 10:49 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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Rare Planet Found Orbiting Three Stars

By Paul Sutter - October 12, 2021 08:54 AM UTC | Exoplanets

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James Webb's 30 Days of Terror

By Nancy Atkinson - October 11, 2021 10:45 AM UTC | Missions

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Gravitational-Wave Observatories Should be Able to Detect Primordial Black Hole Mergers, if They're out There

By Paul Sutter - October 11, 2021 08:52 AM UTC | Black Holes

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Wind Speeds in Jupiter's Great Red Spot are Picking up

By Paul Sutter - October 10, 2021 02:36 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories Could Detect the First Stars When They Exploded as Supernovae

By Paul Sutter - October 09, 2021 02:40 PM UTC | Physics

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IBM Space Tech Wants to "Democratize Space" with ENDURANCE.

By Matthew Williams - October 08, 2021 11:29 PM UTC | Space Policy

IBM Space Tech is launching Endurance, CubeSat mission that children from all over the world will be able to use to gain access to space!

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