NASA brings Crew-11 home early in rare medical evacuation
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission has successfully concluded with a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean early Thursday morning, just off the coast of San Diego. The landing brought to a…
NASA just caught a rare glimpse of an interstellar comet
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has captured important new data on the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using its Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS). In July, 3I/ATLAS became the third officially confirmed…
NASA just confirmed its 6,000th alien world. Some are truly bizarre
The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by…
Life on Mars? NASA discovers potential biosignatures in Martian mudstones
Data and images from NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover reveals that recently discovered rocks in Jezero crater are organic carbon bearing mudstones. The findings, detailed in a paper published in Nature,…
Former NASA engineer says he’s built a machine that defies gravity: Could propellant-free space travel be possible?
A machine that can push itself through space without expelling any propellant has long been a holy grail for engineers and dreamers. Such an invention would transform space travel, but…
NASA Data Shows Pluto’s Equator Is Lined with Towering Methane Ice Spires
The skyscraper size of methane ice might cover around 60% of the equatorial region of Pluto, a larger area than astronomers actually estimated. This study was published on July 5,…
NASA Engineers Rescue JunoCam with Deep-Space Heating Hack
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, in orbit around Jupiter, had a huge problem when its JunoCam imager started to fail after sitting through the planet’s harsh radiation belts for so many orbits.…
Shubhanshu Shukla Bids Farewell from ISS, Honours India’s Space Legacy
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s farewell address from the ISS capped India’s historic Axiom-4 mission. In his brief speech before returning to Earth, Shukla struck a note of national pride and…
A Planet with a Death Wish: How HIP 67522 b Is Forcing Its Star to Explode
Scientists have caught a planet with a death wish, which is an alien world, orbiting very near to its star, and so speedy that it is causing the star to…
Dead NASA Satellite Relay 2 May Have Caused Mysterious 2024 Radio Burst
In June 2024, scientists detected a mysterious, powerful burst of radio waves originating from within our galaxy. At first, they thought it was coming from a pulsar or another undiscovered…