Scientists Melted A Diamond and Cracked a Secret of Ice Giants
Some of the strangest weather in the solar system doesn’t happen on Earth, or even Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – it happens in the interior of the Ice Giants like…
Building Foresight for Earth Science, featuring Lindsey Jacobson
NASA’s Earth-observing satellite missions track dozens of features of a changing planet — aerosols, sea levels, land cover, cloud cover — over years and decades. Sustaining that record for the…
Roman Space Telescope Travels to SpaceX Hangar
NASA/Sydney Rohde (Rocz) NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, encapsulated in its payload fairing, travels from the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at…
Astronomers discover hot watery exoplanet destined to be swallowed by its star
Astronomers have discovered a new ocean world outside the solar system that orbits extremely close to its parent star. This means that the extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet,” is in hot…
A Greenland Glacier Loses Another Chunk of Ice
The ESA’s Sentinel satellites captured a 76 sq. km. chunk of ice breaking off from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. They watched the cracks and deformations happen in real time leading up…
NASA Johnson Pilots Chase Moon’s Shadow for Eclipse Science
3 Min Read NASA Johnson Pilots Chase Moon’s Shadow for Eclipse Science NASA’s WB-57F aircraft prepares for takeoff from Ellington Field in Houston ahead of its mission to observe the…
A black star in a false Spanish twilight: Here’s the story of my 1st total solar eclipse
I had never seen a total solar eclipse. That’s a strange thing to admit for the skywatching writer at Space.com, but the truth is that the opportunity had simply never…
RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies introduces new spacecraft mission enabler
LAFAYETTE, Colo. (August 26, 2026) — Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, part of RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) Raytheon business, has unveiled its latest spacecraft subsystem, the…
Massive space mirrors could be 40 times brighter than the full moon, astronomers warn. ‘It will be worse than big cities like London’
Each of the sun-reflecting mirrors proposed by U.S.-based startup Reflect Orbital will appear 40 times brighter than the full moon to observers standing within its beam on Earth, a study…
Chance gaze at old Hubble Telescope image leads to discovery that could reveal dark matter’s secrets
In late June 2023, on a morning train commuting to work in New York City, David Hendel was scrolling through a recent astronomy paper on his phone when a half-page…