Springtime on Mars brings frost avalanches, gas geysers and explosions (photos)

Instead of chilled glasses and champagne bubbles to ring in the New Year, how about gassy geysers and frosty avalanches? That’s exactly what you can expect as the Martian New…

Bezos’s Blue Origin poised for first orbital launch next week

In this handout photo courtesy of Blue Origin the New Glenn rocket is seen during a hot-fire test at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida on…

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 142 — 2025 in Space

2025 in Space – The Year’s Most Anticipated Space Missions & Developments – YouTube Watch On On Episode 142 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk…

‘Silo’ Season 2, ‘The Book of Quinn’: Juliette suffers, Walker snitches, and Lukas decodes Quinn’s letter

You can feel it in the air, not just the advent of the fresh new year, but the narrative momentum building towards a turbulent climax in Apple TV+’s “Silo” Season…

‘Silo’ Season 2: Steve Zahn sees his enigmatic character Solo as a ‘curious, delightful kid’ (exclusive)

Emmy-nominated actor and amiable native Minnesotan Steve Zahn (“Happy, Texas,” “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” “War for the Planet of the Apes”) has compiled an impressive body of work in…

NASA’s LEXI will provide X-ray vision of Earth’s magnetosphere

In this visualization, the LEXI instrument is shown onboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which will deliver 10 Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) payloads to the moon. Credit: Firefly…

Carbon in our bodies likely left galaxy and came back on cosmic ‘conveyer belt’

An image of a dense, star-rich portion of our galaxy, the Milky Way, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team Life on Earth could not exist without…

Scientists detect mysterious suppression in cosmic structure growth

A section of the three-dimensional map constructed by BOSS. Image credit: Jeremy Tinker and the SDSS-III collaboration. Credit: Jeremy Tinker and the SDSS-III collaboration A new study in published in…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe beams home 1st detailed update after record-breaking approach to the sun

On New Year’s Day, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home more good news about its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun. On Wednesday (Jan.…

HYPSO-2 satellite monitors harmful algae from space

The HYPSO-3 satellite weighs 7 kg and has solar panels on its wings. Credit: Kongsberg NanoAvionics It’s slightly larger than a 5-liter water bottle, and is whizzing around the Earth…