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NASA and Boeing’s Starliner delays expose the challenges of space travel

NASA and Boeing’s Starliner delays expose the challenges of space travel

By Briley Lewis

Mars might have an asteroid problem

By Briley Lewis

How ‘safe mode’ protects space telescopes like Hubble and TESS

Space Telescope

How ‘safe mode’ protects space telescopes like Hubble and TESS

By Briley Lewis

Artist's concept of a hypothetical planet orbiting far from the Sun.

Astronomers still haven’t decided if Planet 9 is real

By Briley Lewis

Astronomers fight to save a major X-ray space telescope

Space Telescope

Astronomers fight to save a major X-ray space telescope

By Briley Lewis

Where do all those colors in space telescope images come from?

Space Telescope

Where do all those colors in space telescope images come from?

By Briley Lewis

An image of the core of our Milky Way galaxy. This view combines the sharp imaging of Hubble’s Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) with color imagery from a previous Spitzer Space Telescope survey done with its Infrared Astronomy Camera (IRAC).

Youth-stealing stars could explain ‘missing giants’ at the Milky Way’s center

By Briley Lewis

Voyager, Chandrayaan, Curiosity: How do spacecraft get their names?

Voyager, Chandrayaan, Curiosity: How do spacecraft get their names?

By Briley Lewis

How lightning on exoplanets could make it harder to find alien life

How lightning on exoplanets could make it harder to find alien life

By Briley Lewis

Why our tumultuous sun was relatively quiet in the late 1600s

Why our tumultuous sun was relatively quiet in the late 1600s

By Briley Lewis

ESA will send a triangle of satellites into space to study gravitational waves

ESA will send a triangle of satellites into space to study gravitational waves

By Briley Lewis

Halley’s comet is on its way back towards Earth

Halley’s comet is on its way back towards Earth

By Briley Lewis

How do you make cosmic sausage?

How do you make cosmic sausage?

By Briley Lewis

International Liquid Mirror Telescope

Space Telescope

Looking at the stars through a puddle of mercury

By Briley Lewis

Space Telescope

Scientists want to use the sun’s gravity to communicate between stars

By Briley Lewis

Three moons and Jupiter, plus the NASA probe Juno.

The Juno spacecraft spotted evidence of a salty ocean on Jupiter’s biggest moon

By Briley Lewis

The Milky Way galaxy shines above a dark space telescope in the foreground.

What astronomers learned from a near-Earth asteroid they never saw coming

By Briley Lewis

Orang heat radiates from a reentering space capsule in NASA artwork.

Private Space Flight

Rockets and satellites are shedding metal into the atmosphere

By Briley Lewis

Red-capped Hall effect thrusters being attached to a spacecraft body by two engineers.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will blaze an unusual blue trail across the solar system

By Briley Lewis

A purplish spiral galaxy with red and yellow space objects.

JWST takes a jab at the mystery of the universe’s expansion rate

By Briley Lewis

A metal sphere under construction as workers climb over it.

A massive detector in China will try to find a supernova before it happens

By Briley Lewis

A yellow sun partially blocked by a moon in a reddish sky with the US capitol in the foreground.

Citizen scientists can join a ‘Ring of Fire’ eclipse radio experiment

By Briley Lewis

A dark world at the edge of our solar system.

Why a mysterious ninth planet might be lurking beyond Pluto

By Briley Lewis

Soldiers inspect a missile that landed in a Ukraine street without detonating.

Seismic sensors reveal the true intensity of explosions in Ukraine

By Briley Lewis

A close-up astronaut outside the ISS above a blue slice of Earth.

International Space Station

This is how space might disturb our immune systems

By Briley Lewis

Yellow spacecraft machinery against a white walled background.

India’s successful moon landing makes lunar history

By Briley Lewis

A purple galaxy cluster against a black background of space, studded with stars.

When two stars orbit each other, gravity gets weird

By Briley Lewis

An illustration of a brown dwarf and a hotter star, in white.

Two tiny stars fit into an orbit smaller than our sun

By Briley Lewis

Stars form a half-circle above a mountain lake.

7 US parks where you can get stunning nightsky views

By Briley Lewis

A rotor in the middle of a large wind tunnel.

How epic wind tunnels on Earth make us better at flying through space

By Briley Lewis

A glowing bluish star remnant bursts with X-ray beams in an artist's illustration.

How astronomers traced a puzzling signal to a lunchtime mistake

By Briley Lewis

Uranus captured by Voyager 2 in true color and false color. Uranus got its name from Greek mythology.

Uranus got its name from a very serious authority

By Briley Lewis

Low-frequency gravitation waves emerging from black hole collision in space. Illustration.

Astronomers used dead stars to detect a new form of ripple in space-time

By Briley Lewis

An illustration of Planet Nine, a possible other world in our solar system.

There might be an ice giant planet hiding in our solar system

By Briley Lewis

The TRAPPIST system, which has the most Earth-sized planets known yet.

JWST’s double take of an Earth-sized exoplanet shows it has no sky

By Briley Lewis

The radio telescope at Green Bank.

Astronomers unveil a new way to search for extraterrestrial intelligence

By Briley Lewis

NASA's Psyche probe should blast off to an asteroid later in 2023.

NASA’s journey to a strange metal asteroid should finally begin in October

By Briley Lewis

Mammatus types of clouds over a lighthouse and rocky coast

A scientific guide to clouds, even the ones that look like udders

By Briley Lewis

An illustration of a hot Jupiter planet, based on Hubble observations.

This hot Jupiter exoplanet unexpectedly hangs out with a super-Earth

By Briley Lewis

Magnetic arches and solar flares emerging from the upper half of the sun's corona

How hundreds of college students are helping solve a centuries-old mystery about the sun

By Briley Lewis

Fomalhaut, a star system 25-light-years away, showing a dust cloud and rocky belts.

Asteroid belt circling star 25 light-years away hints at a hidden planet

By Briley Lewis

Exoplanet LHS 475 b, with a mass 99 percent of Earth, orbits its sun solo, like ours. No co-orbiting planets have been confirmed.

How many planets can form one conga line around a star?

By Briley Lewis

NASA Ingenuity helicopter lost in a Mars crater in a photo taken by Perseverance rover

Name a better duo than NASA’s hard-working Mars rover and helicopter

By Briley Lewis

NASA Deep Space Network radiotelescope sending radio waves to spacecraft, stars, and maybe aliens

Alien civilizations could send us messages by 2029

By Briley Lewis

Exoplanet KMT-2021-BLG-1898L b is a gas giant that looks like Jupiter but orbits a separate star. Illustration.

Space Telescope

An Einstein-backed method could help us find smaller exoplanets than ever before

By Briley Lewis

A group of people outside their cars along a closed road, wearing eclipse glasses to watch a solar eclipse.

Watch this week’s rare solar eclipse from anywhere in the world

By Briley Lewis

Magnetic field around sun's corona with NASA's Parker Solar Probe touching the edge. Illustrated.

Why is the sun’s corona 200 times hotter than its surface?

By Briley Lewis

Circled is the infrared afterglow of the BOAT gamma-ray burst and its host galaxy. Taken by NASA space telescopes.

Space Telescope

A powerful explosion rocked space so hard, NASA called it the ‘brightest of all time’

By Briley Lewis

Two people, silhouetted, looking up at a clear night sky.

Catch 5 planets (including Uranus) in an ultra-rare planetary alignment

By Briley Lewis

Oumuamua, which is either a comet or an alien spaceship, giving off hydrogen gas as it passes through the sun's cosmic rays. Illustrated.

‘Oumuamua isn’t an alien probe, but it might be the freakiest comet we’ve ever seen

By Briley Lewis

Water on the moon highlighted in varying shades of blue from NASA SOFIA data

We finally have a detailed map of water on the moon

By Briley Lewis

Dark energy fills the cosmos. But what is it?

Dark energy fills the cosmos. But what is it?

By Briley Lewis

A variety of illustrated exoplanets.

Sorry, Star Trek fans, the real planet Vulcan doesn’t exist

By Briley Lewis

An artist's conception of a supermassive black hole.

Black hole collisions could possibly send waves cresting through space-time

By Briley Lewis

An optical image from the Keck-I Telescope superimposed on a Chandra X-ray image of Uranus.

Uranus’s quirks and hidden features have astronomers jazzed about a direct mission

By Briley Lewis

Silhouette of bird in front of full moon

Volunteer astronomers bring wonders of the universe into prisons

By Briley Lewis

An open-celled cloud formation west of Chile.

IBM’s AI has a new job: sorting through NASA’s giant stream of Earth and weather images

By Briley Lewis

The ISS as imaged by astronauts in the Soyuz capsule.

International Space Station

The ISS is the best place for an astronaut to get stuck in space

By Briley Lewis

Astronomers want to wield a tiny laser to look for life on neighboring worlds

Astronomers want to wield a tiny laser to look for life on neighboring worlds

By Briley Lewis

Milky Way galaxy stars in infrared by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope

Space Telescope

Our universe mastered the art of making galaxies while it was still young

By Briley Lewis

Two colliding neutron stars.

Wiggly space waves show neutron stars on the edge of becoming black holes

By Briley Lewis

James Webb Space Telescope life-size NASA model in front of Austin skyline

Space Telescope

JWST has changed the speed of discovery, for better or for worse

By Briley Lewis

The Jovian moon Io, showing a volcanic eruption.

A mysterious magma ocean could fuel our solar system’s most volcanic world

By Briley Lewis

NASA Orion spacecraft with unfolded solar panels on wings as it circles the moon. The Earth is far off in the background.

Artemis I’s solar panels harvested a lot more energy than expected

By Briley Lewis

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