Astronauts will attempt to grow mushrooms in space for the first time during SpaceX’s upcoming Fram2 mission. Launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as early as Monday (March 31),…
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When glaciers roamed Mars
Perspective view of Kalkaska crater and the Heart Lake system from CTX-MOLA DTM mosaic over global CTX mosaic. Credit: Berman & Williams (2025) The surface of Mars is known for…
A total solar eclipse from 2471 B.C. may have shaken Egypt’s cult of the sun
The date is April 1, 2471 B.C., and a total solar eclipse has forced night to fall during the day in Egypt. The sun has morphed into a lifeless black…
How NASA’s Perseverance is helping prepare astronauts for Mars
This graphic shows an illustration of a prototype astronaut suit, left, along with suit samples included aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover. They are the first spacesuit materials ever sent to Mars.…
Boeing’s next Starliner launch for NASA could slip to early 2026 after fixes
Boeing’s Starliner capsule will remain ground-bound for a while longer yet. Last June, Starliner launched on its first-ever crewed flight, which sent NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to…
NEO surveyor instrument enclosure tested inside historic chamber for Apollo spacecraft testing
Credit: NASA The instrument enclosure of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor was prepared for critical environmental tests inside the historic Chamber A at the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson…
When’s the next ‘parade of planets’? The past, present and future of planetary alignments
The recent and much-ballyhooed “planetary parade” was an interesting celestial event that likely spurred even infrequent skywatchers to seek out the seven planets stretched out across the sky. Some of…
Webb telescope sees galaxy in mysteriously clearing fog of early universe
JADES-GS-z13-1 in the GOODS-S field.Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, STScI, CSA, JADES Collaboration Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early universe. The surprise finding is…
The new moon of March 2025 creates a partial solar eclipse this weekend
This new moon of March 2025 will create a partial solar eclipse visible in the northeastern part of North America, much of Europe and Russia; one will even be able…
Protoplanetary disks are much smaller than previously thought, new study finds
Images of 73 protoplanetary discs in the Lupus star forming region (two of the images contain binary stars). Only a fraction of the discs extend beyond the orbit of Neptune,…
