A Hungarian astronomer who had discovered a small asteroid just hours before it hit Earth earlier this month nearly scored a second lucky strike spotting another space rock that appeared on a collisi… [+2425 chars]
It’s often said that the wheels of government turn slowly, and perhaps nowhere is this on better display than at NASA. While it seems like every week we hear about another commercial space launch or … [+7065 chars]
The inner nebula of the much-studied supernova Cassiopeia A is not moving smoothly outward. This has been discovered by astronomers from the University of Amsterdam and Harvard. The astronomers suspe… [+3643 chars]
Misjudging someone's age can be awkward… especially when you're off by a few billion years. That may be the case with our Milky Way galaxy, research published March 23 in the journal Nature sugg… [+4081 chars]
Scientists will have to wait a little longer to get their hands on pristine Mars samples that might hold evidence of ancient Red Planet life. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are working tog… [+2838 chars]
A fresh count of exoplanets floating through space has surpassed the 5,000 mark, with NASA confirming the latest batch of planets outside the immediate solar family. As of March 21, NASA added 65 … [+2477 chars]
Cape Canaveral has been at the heart of America’s space program since the very beginning. A hub for rocketry research and development in its early days, the Cape served as a test center not just for … [+10819 chars]
Physicists know about the huge chasm between quantum physics and the theory of gravity. However, in recent decades, theoretical physics has provided some plausible conjecture to bridge this gap and t… [+4150 chars]
The first all-private crewed mission to the International Space Station won't launch this weekend after all. Axiom Space's Ax-1 mission had been targeting a Sunday (April 3) liftoff from NASA's Ke… [+2147 chars]
A new analysis of one of the most famous explosions in the cosmos has revealed a curious asymmetry. Part of the inner nebula of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant is not, astronomers have found, exp… [+3620 chars]
The European Space Agency is scrambling to figure out the ExoMars rovers next-possible launch window after the agency suspended cooperation with the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, over Russias inva… [+2551 chars]
Astrophotographers often produce breathtaking images of distant galaxies, planets, and moons from Earth. But Dr Sebastain Voltmer captured something very different and yet equally incredible, last we… [+1467 chars]
