Japan launches a climate change monitoring satellite on mainstay H2A rocket’s last flight

An H-2A rocket carrying Global Observing SATellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle, or GOSAT-GW satellite, lifts off from a launch pad in Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, southern Japan,…

A strange bright burst in space baffled astronomers for more than a year. Now, they’ve solved the mystery

The radio burst was captured using the ASKAP radio telescope. Credit: Marcin Glowacki Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we…

Powerful magnets could unlock detection of high-frequency gravitational waves

Magnetic Weber bar concept: Gravitational waves deform the magnet, creating oscillating magnetic fields detected by the pickup loop and SQUID. Credit: Sebastian Ellis New research published in Physical Review Letters…

Hey Siri, fix my spacecraft! A virtual assistant could help astronauts handle unexpected space mission issues

Credit: Rachel Barton/Texas A&M Engineering When astronauts make the long journey to Mars in the not-so-distant future, communication with mission control will be impossible for days to weeks at a…

Discovery of ‘mini halo’ points to how the early universe was formed

This stunning image reveals a distant galaxy cluster teeming with energy: galaxies shine in visible light (white), ghostly red clouds unveil a newly discovered radio mini-halo—the most distant ever detected—and…

The mystery of Mercury’s missing meteorites, and how we may have finally found some

Mercury seen by Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft on the left. On the right, there’s an approximation of Mercury’s true colour as might be seen by the human eye. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins…

Long-term isolated environments may blur boundaries for space crews

Construction on Mars takes a leap forward

Credit: Kaitlyn Johnson/Texas A&M Engineering Inhabiting Mars has long been a futuristic fantasy fueled by science fiction. However, successful landings over the past half-century have made this seemingly far-fetched idea…

Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests and more

ESA’s Biomass is the first satellite to carry a P-band synthetic aperture radar. Thanks to the long wavelength of P-band, around 70 cm, this novel radar is able to penetrate…

NASA spacecraft around the moon photographs the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar lander

This image provided by NASA shows an annotation indicating the impact site for ispace’s Resilience lunar lander, seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera on June 11, 2025. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona…