NASA wants to put a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030 – choosing where is tricky
NASA plans to prioritize the fission reactor as power necessary to extract and refine lunar resources.
SpaceX deploys 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit after launch from Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink broadband internet satellites was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025.
The ESA Restores Communications with JUICE at Venus
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) suffered a communications anomaly on its way Venus for a gravity-assist maneuver. Thanks to swift and coordinated action by the teams…
New Insights into Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Acceleration
What processes are responsible for our Sun’s solar wind, heat, and energy? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review X hopes to address as a team of…
Scientists Crack the Code of the Galaxy’s Most Mysterious Steam Worlds
Imagine worlds where water exists in forms so exotic that they defy our everyday understanding of matter, where the familiar liquid we drink every day transforms into something that behaves…
Binary Star Evolution as a Driver of Planet Formation
What can binary star systems teach astronomers about the formation and evolution of planets orbiting them? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a…
Scientists Discover Unusual Plasma Waves in Jupiter’s Aurora
In the cold darkness above Jupiter’s poles, where temperatures plummet to hundreds of degrees below zero, something remarkable is happening that challenges our understanding of planetary science. Using data from…
A New Method For Producing Oxygen Using Magnets
Since sending the first human into space in the 1960s, the solution to one key challenge has remained elusive: the efficient and reliable production of oxygen in space. On the…
A Massive Virtual Radio Telescope Spots A Ribbon-like Jet Of Super-heated Plasma
Astronomers used a powerful virtual radio telescope to observe a distant active galaxy. The observations revealed a ribbon-like jet of super-heated plasma. The plasma reaches temperatures of more than 10…
Astronomers Discover One of the Most Massive Binary Stars in the Galaxy
Deep in one of our Galaxy’s most spectacular star forming regions, astronomers have undertaken the most detailed look yet at a pair of stellar giants that rank among the heaviest…