25 Years of NASA Student Launch
NASA/Charles Beason Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst team carry their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad at NASA’s 2025 Student Launch launch day competition in Toney, Alabama, on…
AI-dubbed Swedish sci-fi movie ‘Watch the Skies’ came about after the director had coffee and tarts with a local UFO chaser group (interview)
Pour some coffee for our exclusive chat with the talented Scandinavian filmmaker, Victor Danell, as he talks about the influence of Spielberg, nostalgia, and the Swedish tradition of Fika.
Tracing the Moon’s Geological History with LUGO
Some parts of the Moon are more interesting than others, especially when searching for future places for humans to land and work. There are also some parts of the Moon…
What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years
6 min read What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years One year on, NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm…
Sols 4534-4535: Last Call for the Layered Sulfates? (West of Texoli Butte, Headed West)
Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources…
President Trump nominates former Air Force colonel Matt Anderson to be NASA’s deputy chief
President Trump has picked former Air Force colonel Matt Anderson to be second in command at NASA.
Engine change delays ispace-built lunar lander mission
A change in engines will cause the launch of a lunar lander being built for a NASA-funded mission to slip from 2026 to 2027. The post Engine change delays ispace-built…
There are Many Ways to Interpret the Atmosphere of K2-18 b
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. That truism, now known as the “Sagan standard” after science communication Carl Sagan, has been around in some form since David Hume first published it…
Want to Find Life? You’ll Want Several Exoplanets in the Same System to Compare
Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the Universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, we know that life arose early on our world,…
Doomed star circling supermassive black hole could be ripped apart in less than 6 years
Every time this doomed star plunges through a supermassive black hole’s accretion disk, it loses orbital energy and triggers a burst of X-rays.