NASA Starshade Would Enable Astronomers To Directly Image Rocky Exoworlds
Innovative NASA-funded orbital starshade could help capture first direct images from extrasolar earths.
Astronomers Use Rare Ultra-Magnetic Star to Crack a Quantum Mystery
An international team observed a magnetar known as 1E 1547.0–5408 using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), leading to what could be the first detection of vacuum birefringence taking place…
New ‘Star Trek’ documentary featuring William Shatner hits theaters this fall, celebrating 60 years of Trek
The “Star Trek” franchise’s 60th anniversary is coming straight at us warp speed and will be arriving on Sept. 8, 2026. “Trek” faithful from around the globe are expected to…
How a huge fleet of 17 spacecraft discovered something surprising about solar eruptions
A misbehaving coronal mass ejection (CME) that blew out a hidden cloud of charged particles aimed at Earth has been tracked by a record 17 spacecraft spread throughout the solar…
Bad weather delays launch of China’s historic Chang’e 7 mission to moon’s south pole
Poor weather has delayed the launch of China’s latest moon mission. According to reports, the growth of Tropical Depression Narra in the Gulf of Tonkin has prompted China’s space agency…
NASA Highlights Next-Gen Cargo Landers Paving the Way for a Moon Base
NASA and its commercial partners are making progress on their way to a permanent human presence on the Moon. As part of that, a recent press release and accompanying YouTube…
Launching 10,000 tiny ‘femtosats’ to Saturn? NASA funds 18 futuristic spaceflight ideas
NASA is giving a financial boost to nearly 20 technology investigations to help fuel the incubation of tomorrow’s spaceflight research capabilities. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has selected…
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4982–4987: Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming
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…
White Dwarf-Red Dwarf Binaries Power Cosmic Lasers
Researchers have helped unravel the mystery of why certain pairs of stars pulse with regular, long-period bursts of radio waves. The particular class of objects they observed come in pairs…
How will NASA’s astronaut training hub change with commercial space stations?
HOUSTON — What does NASA’s astronaut training hub look like these days, as the agency aims to bring more commercial space stations into the fold? It’s an interesting mix of…