Astronomy

Houston-based Celestis and The Exploration Company are teaming up to fly a memorial payload on SpaceX's Transporter 14 rideshare mission on Monday (June 23).

You'll need luck on your side to spot these shooting stars.

More and more satellites are being added to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) every month. As that number continues to increase, so do the risks of that critical area surrounding the Earth becoming impassable, trapping us on the planet for the foreseeable future. Ideas from different labs have presented potential solutions to this problem, but one of the most promising, electrodynamic tethers (EDTs), have only now begun to be tested in space. A new CubeSat called the Spacecraft for Advanced Research and Cooperative Studies (SPARCS) mission from researchers at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran hopes to contribute to that effort by testing an EDT and intersatellite communication system as well as collecting real-time data on the radiation environment of its orbital path.

How different does sunset appear from Mars than from Earth?

This no-name galaxy projector has blown us away with its projection quality and interchangeable disks.

The beloved 'oldies and aliens' blockbuster is a movie out of sync with Hollywood norms.

Miami-based multimedia superstar Natasha Tsakos discusses this historic fall flight aboard Zero-G's 'G-Force One' aircraft.

On Episode 166 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik broadcast live from the National Space Society's International Space Development Conference in Orlando.

A recent study looked at the challenges New Space may face, in terms of impact on the ozone layer. The study was published recently in the journal of Nature (link) by researchers out of University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, Harvard University, and the Institute for Atmospheric Climate Science and the Physics-Meteorology Observatory in Switzerland.

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from experts.

The universe seems to be spinning, and that could explain what dark energy is and why it's weakening while revealing our place within the multiverse.

The Pleiades, a crescent moon and Venus  —  what more could an astrophotographer want?

With over 5,000 exoplanets now identified, astronomers have found that our Solar System isn't the only model of planetary formation. There are super-Earths, sub-Neptunes, hot-Jupiters, and Earth-sized worlds orbiting around red dwarf stars. In a new paper, researchers propose how the search for life could adapt to these bizarre environments, expanding the definition of a habitable world. Life could exist without a surface, or using different kinds of solvents than water.

Sea spiders living near deep-sea methane seeps appear to cultivate and eat bacteria on their exoskeletons

Sea spiders living near deep-sea methane seeps appear to cultivate and eat bacteria on their exoskeletons

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the Tokyo-based company ispace.

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque

'Elio' isn't the legendary animation studio's first adventure on the final frontier. Here's every Pixar movie and short that explores space.

Astronomers have taken an unprecedentedly detailed look at the tendrils and filaments that wrap around supermassive black hole-dominated galaxies of Abell 2255.