NASA’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system. The technique relies on a phenomenon introduced by Einstein in his…
Astronomers have discovered an extremely low-mass and dim dwarf galaxy around Andromeda. Called And 35, it’s an Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy (UFDG) and so far, the researchers have detected only 46…
NASA/Keegan Barber NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman leads a flyover featuring his personally owned Northrop F-5 Tiger during the Great American State Fair on July 4, 2026, on the National Mall…
Mysterious “little red dots” discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor buried black holes that fire high-energy cosmic “ghost particles” through the cosmos. Neutrinos…
Where does the Solar System end and interstellar space begin? That’s a question scientists have been working to answer using spacecraft traveling out beyond the Sun’s influence. A team of…
MILAN — NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition program (CSDA) announced June 23 contract awards with eight new commercial satellite data providers, three of which are European: Kuva Space (Finland), OroraTech…
We’ve reported on all kinds of wacky ideas for capturing and deorbiting space debris safely. From electric tethers to lasers, engineers and scientists have been trying everything they can think…
Credit: NASA On Monday, NASA released a draft Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking feedback from American companies on the next phase of its commercial space stations strategy, aimed at ensuring…
5 Min Read NASA’s CAPSTONE Completes Extended Mission Testing Lunar Technologies The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) has achieved all primary and extended mission objectives.…
With new technologies come new opportunities. And that is especially true in astronomy – with every new advanced telescope we have the potential to see (or in some cases, listen)…
