How a Meteorite Helps Explain Mercury’s Chemical Makeup
Mercury is one of the four rocky worlds of the Solar System, yet its chemistry is very different from Earth, Venus, and Mars. Missions to the planet show that it…
Space Force selects firms to build counter-surveillance payloads for satellites
Under SBIR contracts from the Space Rapid Capabilities Office, companies will develop payloads capable of detecting emissions from ground-based radars that track U.S. satellites The post Space Force selects firms…
US-Indian Spacecraft Captures Mexico City Subsidence
3 Min Read US-Indian Spacecraft Captures Mexico City Subsidence PIA26709 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/David Bekaert Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal US-Indian Spacecraft Captures… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About…
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4873-4878: Welcome to the Atacama Drill Target
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…
Binary Stars Form Lots Of Exoplanets, But Many Of Them Are Ejected As Rogue Planets
Binary stars are common, but for a long time astronomers have thought that exoplanets would have trouble forming around them. In recent years, powerful telescopes have detected about 50 of…
Trump invited the Artemis 2 moon astronauts to the Oval Office. Here’s what happened
President Trump hosted the Artemis 2 moon astronauts at the White House today (April 29), congratulating the quartet and musing about the possibility of going to space himself.
US-Indian Space Mission Maps Extreme Subsidence in Mexico City
New data from NISAR shows where Mexico City and its environs subsided by up to a few centimeters per month (shown in blue) between Oct. 25, 2025, and Jan. 17,…
Is Ben Mauro’s ‘Huxley’ graphic novel universe the next big thing in sci-fi? (interview)
‘It’s exciting to see things come to life and see it grow and expand. It just makes me happy every day.’
Is the Earliest Supermassive Black Hole Mystery Solved?
One of the most intriguing puzzles in cosmology is the existence of supermassive black holes that seem to appear very early in the history of the Universe. Astronomers keep finding…
James Webb Space Telescope’s strange little red dots may really be ‘black hole stars’, X-ray data suggests
Finding X-rays coming from one of the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could be the key to answering what these weird objects truly are.