A small NASA exoplanet probe now has a ride to Earth orbit. The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound…
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Astronomers announce largest collection of comets found outside our solar system
This gallery contains 74 images of different star systems with cometary belts (known as “exocomets”) taken with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter (ALMA) radio telescope facilities.…
What was the mysterious space signal scientists discovered in 2024? Here are some possibilities
Having launched on January 9, 2024 by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Einstein Probe detected several new events during its commissioning phase. Last October, Yuan Weimin, the spacecraft’s principle…
Auction offers Neil Armstrong’s reply to NASA engineer’s Apollo 11 mission patch ideas
Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his handwritten letter, it was too late. The Apollo 11 commander and his crewmates had already arrived at a design to represent…
NASA will beam Super Bowl LIX to orbit for astronauts aboard the International Space Station
Are you ready to catch the big game? On Sunday (Feb. 9), across the United States and around the world, Americans and American football fans will tune in to watch…
Researchers confirm an exoplanet potentially capable of sustaining life
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star. The planet was originally detected two…
Supernova ‘rains’ could give rise to mysteriously magnetic dead stars
Out in the universe lie dead stellar remnants called neutron stars, and these stars gain tremendously powerful magnetic fields when matter ejected from during their explosive supernova deaths falls back…
There could be a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud hurling stars at the Milky Way
This beautiful image shows the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud above the ESO’s Paranal Observatory and the four Auxiliary Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) Array. New research shows…
Robot grippers could be used to remove space debris
Credit: NASA/Suni Williams Blue tentacle-like arms attached to an Astrobee free-flying robot grab onto a “capture cube” in this image from Feb. 4, 2025. The experimental grippers demonstrated autonomous detection…
