Ax-3 Splashdown! Astronauts From Third Private Mission to Space Station Return to Earth
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying the Ax-3 crew splashed down off the coast of Daytona, FL on February 9. Credit:...
How Invisible Threads of the Cosmic Web Shape Galaxies
A computer simulation of what the gas and stars in a galaxy cluster look like, highlighting how clusters of galaxies...
Cosmic Building Blocks of Life Discovered – Scientists Perform First Chemical-Free Analysis of Extraterrestrial Amino Acids in Winchcombe Meteorite
Meteorites, remnants of asteroids, are crucial for understanding our solar system’s history, acting as time capsules that preserve primordial material....
Telescopes Reveal Rapid Spin of Milky Way’s Black Hole Warping Spacetime
This artist’s illustration shows a cross-section of the supermassive black hole and surrounding material in the center of our galaxy....
Ax-3 Private Astronauts Return to Earth As Expedition 70 Focuses on Microgravity Research
Expedition 70 Flight Engineers (from left) Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara, both NASA astronauts, are pictured inside the cupola with...
NASA’s Hybrid Antenna Ushers In a New Era of Deep Space Laser Communication
Deep Space Station 13 at NASA’s Goldstone complex in California – part of the agency’s Deep Space Network – is...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Spots Ingenuity Helicopter at Its Final Resting Place
Perseverance Spots Ingenuity at Its Final Airfield: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic showing the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at...
Exoplanet Migration Explains Mysterious Gap in the Size Distribution of Super-Earths
Artistic representation of an exoplanet whose water ice on the surface is increasingly vaporizing and forming an atmosphere during its...
The Unexpected Architects of Cosmic Dust Storms
Astronomers have discovered that Type Ia supernovae, through interactions with surrounding gas, are a new source of cosmic dust, challenging...
Enhancing Immunity, Advancing Robotics, and Refining Optical Fibers in Space
The last rays of an orbital sunset illuminate Earth’s atmosphere in this photograph from the International Space Station as it...
