Is a Sea Change Coming for New Horizons Heliospheric Science?
If you visit the New Horizons mission website frequently, you’ll notice that the spacecraft continues to generate excellent science as it plows its way through the Kuiper Belt. It recently…
Astronomers Find Little Red Dots About to Merge
Prior to its launch, astronomers were uncertain what the powerful JWST would find in the ancient, early Universe. One of its surprising findings was Little Red Dots, unexplained ancient objects.…
NASA Selects Blue Origin as Mars Telecommunications Network Provider
Credit: NASA NASA awarded Blue Origin a contract Tuesday to develop the agency’s Mars Telecommunications Network, a next-generation communications system that will enable reliable, high-bandwidth communications and navigation services for…
Two astronauts replace ISS camera and docking aid on 6th-ever all-female spacewalk (video)
Two astronauts replaced a spacecraft docking aid and a video camera during a successful spacewalk outside of the International Space Station on Tuesday (Sept. 1). NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and…
Scientists trace 7 stages of a meteorite’s life, from hurtling space rock to Earth’s surface
Studying 75 meteorites falling to Earth, scientists have identified the seven stages a space rock goes through as it crashes through our atmosphere, each of which is determined by different…
Nonprofit wants to launch 80,000-year mission to Alpha Centauri in 2029 (video)
The first dedicated mission to another star will launch before the end of the decade, if all goes according to plan. A nonprofit called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today…
Meet ASTRID, the New High-Resolution Cosmological Simulation
The ASTRID cosmological simulation has run from the Universe’s early days up to the present day, z=0. ASTRID is larger than some other simulations, and smaller than others. But with…
What’s Up: September 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
Skywatching Skywatching Home What’s Up Meteor Showers Eclipses Daily Moon Guide More Tips & Guides Skywatching FAQ Night Sky Network Brilliant Venus and a Harvest Moon Use the Moon to…
The 12 best sci-fi movies of the 2000s
At the turn of the century, sci-fi evolved to new heights, which fortunately had nothing to do with Y2K (even if previous sci-fi movies might have led us to believe…
Historic Engines Take Their Place on Artemis III
NASA/Clayton Rougelot On Aug. 24, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida began installing the four RS‑25 engines in the core stage of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS)…