NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Soyuz MS-27 Launch – YouTube Watch On Three astronauts will launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) early Tuesday morning (April 8), and you can watch…
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Blue Origin plans an all-female space flight—but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional
Mae Carol Jemison was the first black woman to travel to space. Credit: NASA For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will…
How bacteria could help build and maintain cities on the moon
If all goes to plan, scientists may someday begin building outposts on the moon — and some experts believe that these outposts could be constructed with bricks made out of…
Meet ‘Nighthawk’: Mars helicopter mission could be big leap for exploration
The little Ingenuity drone proved that helicopters can play a revolutionary role in Mars exploration. Now, NASA is thinking ahead to bigger and better things. On the back of the…
Four space tourists return to Earth after a private flight over the poles
In this image from video provided by SpaceX, a Dragon capsule carrying four space tourists prepares to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Friday,…
A chance alignment in Lupus
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. NGC 5530 is situated 40…
JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way — scientists call it ‘Big Wheel’
A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which gave birth to the…
Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon
Scientists are now hoping that the asteroid will smash into the Moon. A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing…
Dark energy may not be constant—this discovery could undermine our entire model of cosmological history
by Bernard J.T. Jones, Licia Verde, Vicent J. Martínez and Virginia L Trimble, The Conversation The Cosmic Inventory: the different components of the universe derived from the Planck Satellite observations…
