rotational variables can force a satellite to spiral inward until it meets a destructive end. Image of fiery Venus. (CREDIT: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech) “My study shows Venus didn’t require a catastrophe to arrive at what we can see today,”...

polar regions using reflectance measurements, Icarus (2017) Detection of water in the LCROSS ejecta plume, Science (2010) NASA Achieves Water Recovery Milestone on International Space Station, NASA (2023) A rendering of Rolls-Royce’s proposed nuclear...

deployments, a sentiment echoed by astronauts who spend significant downtime engaged in “Earthgazing.” A view of Earth from NASA’s Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission around the moon in April 2026. (Image credit: NASA) Commercial Influence...

systems after a mission concludes, effectively neutralizing the object’s potential to explode in the future. As noted in NASA research, both defunct satellites and spent rocket stages represent a ticking clock of stored energy. While major organizations...

and weakens, potentially leaving astronauts vulnerable when transitioning back to a gravity-filled environment. As part of NASA’s comprehensive Integrated Cardiovascular Study, researchers tracked 14 astronauts—nine men and five women—throughout their...

HATS-6 b is a gas giant discovered in 2015, with a mass about one-third of Jupiter and a rapid 3.3-day orbit. Credit: NASA Nitrogen-based compounds like ammonia are theoretically expected to appear more frequently in the atmospheres of cooler giant...

of light known as a gamma-ray burst: a supernova that exploded when the Universe was only 730 million years old. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Levan (IMAPP), Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI) Following the X-ray detection by the Chinese-European...

the organism’s known environmental tolerances. This image of Saturn’s moon Enceladus was created from images taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which came within about 25 kilometers of its surface. (CREDIT: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute)...

initiative, led by experts from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and NASA, focused on superlight ablators. These materials serve as the backbone for backshell protection on numerous space missions. The...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has officially surpassed 38 kilometers of travel and climbed over 1 kilometer in elevation while exploring the Martian surface. NASA’s Curiosity rover has achieved a new milestone in its long-running exploration of Gale crater,...

NASA’s James Webb telescope has detected the dusty remains of 21 planetary collisions, offering new insights into how solar systems evolve and destabilize. Planetary collisions are violent, transformative events that shape the architecture of solar...

have traced a fleeting radio flash to a surprisingly humble origin. Utilizing the advanced observational power of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a research team led by the University of Sydney has identified the home of FRB 20240304B, the...

surface, representing the region with the most concentrated area of orbital debris (non-functional satellites).Credit: NASA ODPO (NASA Orbital Debris Program Office) Bio-Inspired Engineering at Work To overcome these limitations, researchers led by...

uncovered a potential link between intense X-ray outbursts and subsequent radio emissions. By analyzing long-term data from NASA’s Swift observatory, researchers identified a significant time delay of approximately 300 days between a record-breaking...

Perseverance detected tiny electrical bursts in Martian dust storms, revealing new atmospheric processes and reshaping how scientists view Mars. For decades, scientists suspected that the dry and dusty environment of Mars could produce electrical...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered mysterious honeycomb-shaped fractures in Mars’ Valle Grande, offering new clues into the planet’s ancient history. Mars Rover Uncovers Mysterious Honeycomb Terrain NASA’s Curiosity rover has stumbled upon a...

deep within Mars, potentially rewriting our understanding of the Red Planet’s evolutionary history. New data gathered from NASA’s retired InSight mission has revealed that the interior of Mars is far more asymmetric than scientists previously...

NASA’s analysis of samples from asteroid Bennu reveals a surprising origin story linked to Jupiter’s early movements and the formation of our solar system. New analysis of extraterrestrial material returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has provided a...

NASA’s DART spacecraft famously shifted the orbit of an asteroid moon in 2022. New research shows the impact also nudged the entire asteroid system around the Sun, marking the first confirmed human-caused change to a celestial body’s heliocentric...

Mars data reveal a hidden interior, suggesting a dynamic world concealed for billions of years. Seismic recordings from NASA’s InSight lander suggest that Mars once harbored massive subsurface magma chambers, pointing to a far more intricate interior...