Falcon 9 launches American and Japanese commercial lunar landers
A Falcon 9 successfully launched Jan. 15 two landers built by American and Japanese companies taking different paths to the surface of the moon. The post Falcon 9 launches American…
Liftoff! NASA Sends Science, Tech to Moon on Firefly, SpaceX Flight
Creating a golden streak in the night sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One lander soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at…
SpaceX launches 2 private lunar landers to the moon (photos)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched lunar landers for Firefly Aerospace and the Japanese company ispace early this morning (Jan. 15).
Earth’s Temporary Moon Might Have Come from THE Moon
A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our Moon. Its characteristics led scientists to ask: is it…
Galaxy Cores May be Giant Fuzzy Dark Stars
A fuzzy form of dark matter may clump up to become the cores of galaxies, according to new research. The traditional dark matter hypothesis, that it’s some form of cold,…
This Quasar Helped End the Dark Ages of the Universe
After the Big Bang came the Dark Ages, a period lasting hundreds of millions of years when the universe was largely without light. It ended in the epoch of reionization…
Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Poster
NASA’s Roman Coronagraph Instrument will greatly advance our ability to directly image exoplanets, or planets and disks around other stars. The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, a technology demonstration designed and built…
Webb Provides an Explanation for “Little Red Dots”
When a new space telescope is launched, it’s designed to address specific issues in astronomy and provide critical answers to important questions. The JWST was built with four overarching science…
Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument Poster
The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI), the primary instrument aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is a 300-megapixel visible and infrared camera that will allow scientists to perform revolutionary astrophysics surveys.…
Little house on the (moon) prairie: Artist’s ‘Moonhouse’ set to lift off on lunar lander
The moon is about to gain its first tiny house. Launching on a Japanese lunar lander is the “Moonhouse,” a project by Mikael Genberg 25 years in the making.