Black holes slamming into scorching stars may be causing mysterious blue flashes in the cosmos
Powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients could be caused when a black hole or neutron star slams into the universe’s hottest class of star.
Swift reboost mission completes environmental tests
A spacecraft designed to raise the decaying orbit of a NASA astrophysics satellite has passed environmental tests ahead of a launch as soon as June.
Monopoly sucks, but this new ‘Star Wars’ video game spinoff might add some galactic sizzle
If you only knew the power of Boardwalk
NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures Mars During Gravity Assist Approach
2 Min Read NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures Mars During Gravity Assist Approach PIA26750 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Psyche Mission… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback…
How you’d really die in space: What sci-fi gets right (and wrong) about extra-terrestrial expirations
What sci-fi gets right (and mostly wrong) about all the ways that space wants to kill you.
I Am Artemis: Anton Kiriwas
3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Anton Kiriwas Listen to this audio excerpt from Anton Kiriwas, senior technical integration manager for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program: 0:00 / 0:00 Your…
NASA, Industry Advance High Performance Spaceflight Computing
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) High Performance Spaceflight Computing System on Chip NASA/Ryan Lannom For decades, NASA has advanced on-board spacecraft computer processors that…
This is your best chance to spot the Milky Way’s core in May
See the glowing arch of our Milky Way’s core at its peak in the spring sky
Black Holes Don’t Live Forever, But They Might Live Long Enough To Look Like White Holes
Black holes evaporate through Hawking radiation, meaning their days are numbered. But a new study finds they could enter a metastable stage where they look similar to white holes.
Glowing Views from the Space Station
NASA/Chris Williams NASA astronaut Chris Williams captured the Milky Way rising above Earth’s atmospheric glow on April 13, 2026, while aboard a SpaceX Dragon docked to the International Space Station.…