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.
NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York
NASA astronauts Anne McClain (bottom) and Nichole Ayers (top), both Expedition 73 Flight Engineers, checkout spacesuit hardware in the Quest airlock and review procedures for a May 1 spacewalk. Credit:…
NASA Kennedy Engages STEM Participants
Students from Eau Gallie High School in Melbourne, Florida, visited the Prototype Development Laboratory at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, April 28, 2025. The science, technology, engineering,…
US military taps Rocket Lab’s new Neutron launcher for ‘point to point’ cargo test flight in 2026
Rocket Lab has signed a contract to launch its new Neutron rocket on a test flight that will advance the U.S. Air Force’s point-to-point cargo transportation concept.
Space Weather Can Dramatically Alter a Planet’s Fate
We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like rogue planets with internal heating or icy moons with…
Trump assaults American space science
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