Death of a Comet: S1 Didn’t Survive its Sungrazing Plummet
Sungrazer C/2024 S1 ATLAS broke apart at perihelion. Alas, a ‘Great Halloween Comet’ was not to be. The Universe teased us just a bit this month, with the potential promise…
Pentagon’s commercial satellite internet services program soars to $13 billion
DoD is raising its Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) Satellite-Based Services program from an initial $900 million ceiling to a projected $13 billion The post Pentagon’s commercial satellite internet services…
Remember that “Alien Signal” Sent by the ExoMars Orbiter Last Year? It’s Just Been Decoded
In May 2023, the ESA’s Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), currently in orbit around Mars, sent a signal to Earth to simulate a possible extraterrestrial transmission. As part of the…
Add Astronaut Nutrition to the List of Barriers to Long-Duration Spaceflight
Though there are no firm plans for a crewed mission to Mars, we all know one’s coming. Astronauts routinely spend months at a time on the ISS, and we’ve learned…
Everything we know about ‘Elio’
Walt Disney Studios and Pixar are returning to animated outer space with sci-fi adventure comedy “Elio.”
New study of Apollo 16 moon samples reveals hidden lunar history
Soil-like pebbles in moon samples brought home by Apollo 16 astronauts have revealed new details about lunar history.
Earth from space: Bizarre ‘pet cloud’ reappears above its favorite spot in New Zealand
A recent satellite image captured the reemergence of a unique, UFO-like cloud, known as the “Taieri Pet,” which appears above New Zealand’s South Island when conditions are just right.
What next for NASA’s Europa Clipper? The long road to Jupiter and its moons
NASA Europa Clipper mission is on its way to Europa, but it has some stops to make before it investigates the habitability of the icy ocean moon of Jupiter, including…
Webb Scans Vega for Planets
To northern sky watchers, Vega is a familiar sight in the summer sky. It’s one of the brightest stars in the sky and in 2013, astronomers detected a large ring…
Crew-8 astronaut released from hospital
A member of the Crew-8 mission hospitalized for an unspecified medical issue after splashdown has been released after an overnight stay, NASA said Oct. 26. The post Crew-8 astronaut released…