Could a trip to Mars leave an astronaut’s liver looking decades older than it should? Researchers at the University of Central Florida believe they may have found exactly that, and the implications reach
What do you do when a fireball lights up the sky and every camera meant to capture it comes up empty? Last spring, a bright meteor streaked across Alaska in broad daylight, and
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars near the Moon from the perspective of the Kennedy Space Center during the Starlink 10-42 mission on July 9, 2026. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now Update July 9,
If humans are ever going to live on the Moon rather than just visit, they will need to grow their own food there, and that means solving a problem lunar soil was never
How do you weigh something you cannot see, hiding in light that is nearly as old as the universe itself? A team led by physicists at Argonne National Laboratory has just published an
Hayabusa 2’s primary mission is well in the past, now. JAXA’s asteroid sampling spacecraft rendezvoused with asteroid Ryugu back in June 2018. It studied the asteroid for 1.5 years and gathered a sample
The ESA’s Euclid space telescope was built to study the “dark Universe.” That means dark matter, which is most of the matter in the Universe, and dark energy, the force that drives the
The galaxy Centaurus A is about 11 million light years away and is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky. Because it’s so bright, it’s been studied extensively by amateur and professional astronomers
Between 2012 and 2025, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has been monitoring the jet launched by the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of the M87 galaxy. By combining these observations with advanced
NASA and China’s national space agency plan to send crewed missions to Mars in the coming decades. Per NASA’s Moon to Mars mission architecture, this will involve using infrastructure established through the Artemis
