NASA’s experimental electric plane could take to the skies this year By Tatyana Woodall / Published February 27, 2022
A moon-watching robot can demystify what migrating birds do at night By Charlotte Hu / Published February 25, 2022
These shape-shifting robots could make for great furniture in space By Tatyana Woodall / Published February 24, 2022
There’s a lot we don’t know about the International Space Station’s ocean grave By Tatyana Woodall / Published February 23, 2022
This miniature rocket could be the first NASA craft launched from Mars By Casey Crownhart / Published February 22, 2022
Rare ‘upside-down stars’ are shrouded in the remains of cannibalized suns By Leto Sapunar / Published February 19, 2022
Virgin Galactic will fly you to space for the price of a house By Colleen Hagerty / Published February 15, 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope showed us its first star By Maggie Galloway / Published February 14, 2022
Our universe probably isn’t special enough to be in a multiverse By Leto Sapunar / Published February 10, 2022
Albert Einstein and Hubble may have helped us find an invisible black hole By Adam McMaster and Andrew Norton / The Conversation / Published February 8, 2022
Hermes will be NASA’s mini-weather station for tracking solar activity By Tatyana Woodall / Published February 6, 2022
Early Mars was a long-lasting hell, meteorite study suggests By Leto Sapunar / Published February 4, 2022
NASA’s storm-chasing planes fly through blizzards to improve snowfall forecasts By Lauren J. Young / Published February 3, 2022
See the heart of the Milky Way as it’s never been captured before By Maggie Galloway / Published January 31, 2022
Mysterious bright spots fuel debate over whether Mars holds liquid water By Leto Sapunar / Published January 28, 2022
A meteorite-hunting AI will scout for space rocks buried in polar ice By Tatyana Woodall / Published January 26, 2022
Part of a SpaceX rocket is going to crash into the moon. It’s probably fine. By Hannah Seo / Published January 26, 2022
NASA’s James Webb telescope is about to arrive at an exceptional point in space By Rahul Rao / Published January 22, 2022
Astronauts are losing 3 million red blood cells every second in space By Tatyana Woodall / Published January 20, 2022
Black holes have a reputation as devourers. But they can help spawn stars, too. By Shi En Kim / Published January 19, 2022
Do look up at this asteroid as it whizzes safely past Earth tonight By Lauren J. Young / Published January 18, 2022
How the Earth’s 23.5-degree tilt gives us seasons By Deanna Hence / The Conversation / Published January 14, 2022
Scientists wielded giant lasers to simulate an exoplanet’s super-hot core By Leto Sapunar / Published January 13, 2022
China’s Yutu 2 Rover investigated a ‘mysterious hut’ on the moon By Margo Milanowski / Published January 12, 2022
Astronomers just mapped the ‘bubble’ that envelopes our planet By Tatyana Woodall / Published January 12, 2022
Ancient rocks hold the story of Earth’s first breath of oxygen By Rahul Rao / Published January 10, 2022
Real shooting stars look a lot different than you’d expect By Idan Ginsburg / The Conversation / Published January 9, 2022
The James Webb telescope could help solve the mystery of dark matter By Leto Sapunar / Published January 7, 2022
The ISS gets an extension to 2030 to wrap up unfinished business By Maggie Galloway / Published January 7, 2022
Jupiter’s moons are about to get JUICE’d for signs of life By Tatyana Woodall / Published January 6, 2022
DARPA wants Space-BACN so satellite communication sizzles By Kelsey D. Atherton / Published January 5, 2022
Alexa will tag along on an uncrewed mission to the moon By Maggie Galloway / Published January 5, 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope has fully unfurled its complex, massive sunshield By Hannah Seo / Published January 5, 2022
The next generation of lunar rovers might move like flying saucers By Tatyana Woodall / Published January 3, 2022
NASA’s James Webb telescope is unfurling a super-thin shield to save it from the sun By Rahul Rao / Published December 30, 2021
NASA’s Chandra spacecraft spies clover-shaped voids left by supermassive black holes By Leto Sapunar / Published December 30, 2021
After years of delays, the James Webb telescope is finally in space By Rachel Feltman / Published December 25, 2021
Scientists finally solve the mystery of why comets glow green By Leto Sapunar / Published December 24, 2021
Space probably has way more ‘rogue planets’ than we thought By Hannah Seo / Published December 23, 2021
17 images to count down to the James Webb Space Telescope launch By Purbita Saha / Published December 23, 2021
The James Webb telescope will soon be hunting for ‘first light’ By Paola Rosa-Aquino / Published December 20, 2021
Astronomers may have an origin story for ‘The Cow,’ a mysteriously powerful cosmic blast By Leto Sapunar / Published December 19, 2021
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its closest encounter yet with the sun By Hannah Seo / Published December 15, 2021
The Milky Way’s black hole spews hot jets that make monster bubbles By Hannah Seo / Published December 14, 2021
Watch space rocks become fireworks during tonight’s Geminid meteor shower By Hannah Seo / Published December 13, 2021
Scientists just spotted a massive storm from a sun-like star By Kate Baggaley / Published December 10, 2021
This newly spotted massive alien planet is confusing astronomers By Hannah Seo / Published December 9, 2021
Astronomers may have found a galaxy that formed without dark matter By Leto Sapunar / Published December 9, 2021
NASA is testing space lasers to shoot data back to Earth By Tatyana Woodall / Published December 8, 2021
Here’s how to see Leonard’s Comet, the brightest comet all year By Margo Milanowski / Published December 3, 2021