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Rocket Lab unveils plan to land Neutron rockets at sea, 1st launch in 2025
The new Neutron rocket includes a "hippo" mouth fairing that deploys upper stages by spitting them out from inside.
Mysterious cosmic body is a rogue ‘Super-Jupiter’
A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our solar system’s gas giant is drifting through the cosmos around 20 light-years from Earth. Although discovered in 2006, the “free-floating planetary-mass object” known as...
NASA squeezes more life from 47-year-old Voyager probes
Voyager 1 and 2 continue to make history every day, as they transmit data back to Earth while traveling further into deep space. But there will come a time when amassing distance...
New evidence for water lurking under the moon’s poles
We tend to think of the moon as a cold, dusty rock, but in fact, its surface can get pretty hot during a lunar day. How hot? It turns out that the...
How to see the upcoming ‘blood moon’ total lunar eclipse
On the night of March 13 into March 14, skygazers across North America—along with many other parts of the world—will get the chance to see a total lunar eclipse with a red...
The best telescope mounts for 2025
The night sky is beautiful enough to look at with the unaided eye, but add a telescope atop a telescope mount, and you’ll have a true sight to behold. And, as important...
Canadian contribution to private lunar lander could lead to a telescope on the moon
On Thursday, a private spacecraft landed on the moon. On board is a Canadian-built camera system that will be used to see if the south pole of the moon is...
Private spacecraft Blue Ghost lands successfully on moon
A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, a success for the latest in a string of companies looking...
Take a look inside this giant satellite dish
CBC’s Giacomo Panico visited a former NATO radome that's now privately owned and used by a local group of radio astronomers.
The global race for critical minerals is on. Here's why they're the lifeblood of the new tech era
What does your smartphone have in common with a solar panel, or an EV battery, or a piece of military equipment? They're all made using critical minerals — an essential ingredient in...
SpaceX's latest Starship test flight ends with another explosion
A massive SpaceX Starship rocket exploded after takeoff again, raining down fiery debris and briefly grounding flights at Orlando International Airport Thursday evening.
NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in Oregon
NASA astronaut Don Pettit inside the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft. (Credit: NASA) Students from Oregon will have the chance to connect with NASA astronaut Don Pettit as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and...
NASA Invites Creators to Design Mascot for Artemis Moon Mission
Credit: NASA NASA is seeking design ideas from global creators for a zero gravity indicator that will fly aboard the agency’s Artemis II test flight. Zero gravity indicators are small, plush items carried...
NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson Speaks to Students
NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson points to the Expedition 71 patch on her flight suit on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Dyson and her fellow Expedition 71 crewmates Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and...
NASA Receives Some Data Before Intuitive Machines Ends Lunar Mission
Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 captured an image March 6, 2025, after landing in a crater from the Moon’s South Pole. The lunar lander is on its side about 820 feet from the intended...
Cosmic Mapmaker: NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Ready to Launch
6 min readCosmic Mapmaker: NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Ready to Launch Ahead of launch, NASA’s SPHEREx is enclosed in a payload fairing at Vandenberg Space Force Base on March 2. The observatory is...
Hubble Examines Stars Ensconced in a Cocoon of Gas
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Hubble Spies a Spectacular Starburst Galaxy
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Hubble Jams With A Cosmic Guitar
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Hubble Unveils a Glittering View of Sh2-284
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News at a glance: Science societies stand up, an asteroid threat fades, and a commercial lunar lander touches down
PLANETARY SCIENCE Commercial probe sticks landing In its first attempt, Firefly Aerospace on 2 March became the first private company or organization to land a probe on the Moon without a hitch. Its...
The Apollo moon landing was real, but NASA's quarantine procedure was not
NASA officials overestimated their ability to contain alien microbes after the first moon landing, a new analysis suggests.
Watch: Ceiling fan launches snake into person recording video in Alabama
A snake caught on camera slithering out onto an Alabama resident's ceiling fan was thrown by the fan directly into the person recording the video.
New observatory instrument sets its sights on Turtle Nebula
A new instrument for studying a web of filaments that connects galaxies across the universe has captured its first image, a milestone known in astronomy as "first light." The Keck...
Artemis 2 astronaut goes on vision quest to prepare for moon mission
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen deepened his Indigenous knowledge recently with a traditional ceremony known as the vision quest. It was folded into his moon mission training.
Space food: Why Mars astronauts won't have to hold the fries (video)
Astronauts with a taste for fried food will be able to indulge during journeys to the moon and Mars. New research shows that frying works in microgravity.
Hubble telescope reels in gorgeous, star-spawning cosmic jellyfish (photo)
The Hubble telescope has sighted a monstrous cosmic jellyfish, a galaxy with a colorful body and trailing tendrils formed through interactions with superheated plasma.
The sun reaches solar maximum in 2032: A new NASA flagship mission could give us a perfect view
There are always more space missions than there is money to support them. Ultimately, some make the cut, and some do not. Various factors go into that decision, though those...