We may have lost an Opportunity on Mars, but that isn’t holding Curiosity back. After hanging out at Vera Rubin Ridge on Mount Sharp since 2017, NASA’s Curiosity rover is crawling over the dusty terrain of the Red Planet again…
These colonies would support all manner of ecosystems. Blue Origin wants to build the tools to help humanity explore the solar system, ultimately expanding life out to take advantage of more resources and support over…
WASP-76 b may be the most extreme exoplanet we know of. There’s a new contender for the “most exotic exoplanet” title. The crown may have rested for a while now on the head of HD 189733 b,…
Liftoff is set for 10:05 a.m. EST (1505 GMT). The private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch 60 new Starlink internet satellites to join its growing megaconstellation in orbit today (Feb .17) and you can watch the action live online. …
The world’s largest solar telescope has revealed its first detailed image of the sun. The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), the world’s largest solar telescope, captured its first image of the sun — the highest-resolution image…
An unidentified object from outer space has been spotted shooting across the Los Angeles night sky on Wednesday and residents have been sharing footage of the bright light on social media. Several locals reported seeing…
Neutrinos, so-called “ghost particles” scattered across the universe, can be 10 million times lighter than the mass of an electron, according to a new study. Neutrinos are referred to as ghostly because they are extremely…
This striking view of the central parts of the Milky Way has been obtained using the VISTA survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. It’s part of a huge picture (108,200 x 81,500 pixels) which…
These Drone Images Will Change the Way You See the World By Tali Taylor – October 9, 2018 Technology has allowed us to make some incredible strides in recent years. The advent of the drone has given us…
Musk envisions fleets of 1,000 Starships departing for Mars every 26 months. Surprise, surprise: Elon Musk is thinking big. SpaceX’s billionaire founder and CEO outlined some ambitious goals for the company’s Starship Mars-colonization system during a flurry of Twitter…
People worldwide are already reporting unidentified lights in the sky as Starlink gets off the ground. It could be just the beginning. Last year saw a big increase in a certain kind of UFO spotting,…
The people of Earth weren’t the only ones ringing in the year 2020 at midnight. Six explorers in orbit celebrated the new year’s arrival – and indeed, a new decade – aboard the International Space…
Fluff surrounds the solid interiors of each of the three planets in the Kepler 51 star system. Each of these planets was discovered to have masses “only a few times larger than Earth’s” with radii…