A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base to begin the Transporter-17 mission on July 7, 2026. Image: SpaceX Update July 7, 6:08
Humans have known about Andromeda since they first gazed skyward, because it’s visible with the naked eye as a little grey smudge. In written accounts from a millennia ago it was described as
Where does the Solar System end and interstellar space begin? That’s a question scientists have been working to answer using spacecraft traveling out beyond the Sun’s influence. A team of researchers from the
We’ve reported on all kinds of wacky ideas for capturing and deorbiting space debris safely. From electric tethers to lasers, engineers and scientists have been trying everything they can think of to deal
In 2024, astronomers detected a rocky exoplanet, GJ 3378b, orbiting a red dwarf sun just 25 light-years from Earth in the direction of the northern constellation Camelopardalis. Based on radial velocity measurements, the
In the course of studying planets beyond our Solar System (6,316 confirmed exoplanets and counting), scientists have discovered some very interesting systems. Consider TOI-201, a compact system populated by three bodies, including a
The Solar System is surrounded by a vast bubble of plasma created by solar wind flowing outward from the Sun. This bubble shields the system from most of the cosmic radiation that passes
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars past the Sun during the Starlink 10-50 mission on July 5, 2026. The rocket also carried onboard two Fabships on the rocket’s booster from the Washington D.C.
Dark Matter (DM), that mysterious matter that accounts for 85% of the Universe’s mass, continues to fascinate and puzzle scientists. While we are unable to resolve it in visible light, its influence can
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has captured evidence of a Jupiter-like world orbiting another star, using a trick straight out of Einstein’s relativity: gravitational microlensing. The technique marks a first for TESS,
