In 2025, we might detect the first signs of life outside our solar system. Crucial to this potential breakthrough is the 6.5-meter-diameter James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Launched aboard an …
Saturn as captured by the Voyager program. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Once the Voyagers’ planetary journeys were over, it was possible to begin a new mission phase. After their last planetary …
However, modeling has shown that it is difficult to scatter enough stars toward the black holes to solve the final-parsec problem. Alternatively, each black hole might have a small disk …
Emily Calandrelli, an MIT-trained engineer and future Blue Origin astronaut, recently made history after she became the 100th woman to venture into space. Her journey aboard Blue Origin’s latest human …
Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis …
Descrease article font size Increase article font size People across Canada will get to witness a sweet celestial view this Friday, as 2024’s fourth and final supermoon will brighten the …
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Three NASA astronauts whose prolonged space station mission ended with a trip to the hospital last month declined to say Friday which one of them …
Less than a month has passed since the historic fifth flight of SpaceX’s Starship, during which the company caught the booster with mechanical arms back at the launch pad in …
When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country’s first super heavy-lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked like a fairly conventional booster. The rocket was fully expendable, …
New observations of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot captured by the Hubble Space Telescope show the 190-year-old storm wiggles like gelatin and shape-shifts like a squeezed stress ball. The unexpected observations, …