Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX has lined up its massive Starship and Super Heavy rocket for what would be its 10th suborbital test flight, aiming to complete goals that have…
Category: Planetary Science
How the Apollo missions unlocked the origins of the moon
Astronaut Harrison Schmitt retrieves lunar samples during Apollo 17. Credit: NASA You know, if you think about it, and trust me we’re about to, the moon is kind of weird.…
SpaceX delays Starship megarocket launch in latest setback
A man with a US flag walks in front of the massive rocket. SpaceX delayed a planned test flight for its Starship megarocket by 24 hours until Monday, saying it…
A time capsule of materials bearing witness to its origin and transformation over billions of years
A scanning electron microscope image of a micrometeorite impact crater in a particle of asteroid Bennu material. Credit: NASA Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by…
Secretive mini space shuttle set for Space Coast launch; late-night sonic boom possible
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It won’t have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force is set to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft—which looks like a miniature space shuttle—back for a…
XRISM reveals slow-moving hot gas near black hole during faint X-ray phase
Conceptual illustration of a black hole X-ray binary. The strong gravity of the black hole (shown as a small black dot at the center of the disk on the right)…
Where are the interstellar objects 1I/’Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/Atlas headed now?
Artist’s impression of ʻOumuamua. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser In the past decade, astronomers have witnessed three interstellar objects (ISOs) passing through the solar system. These include the enigmatic ‘Oumuamua in 2017,…
Rapid-response protocol promises to reveal supernovae only hours after they explode
Example of observations used in the study. Credit: Albany et al, JCAP, 2025 Example of observations used in the study. Credit: Albany et al, JCAP, 2025 Example of observations used…
