[ad_1] Back to Article List Take a look back at the historic Moon mission on its 54th anniversary. Buzz Aldrin photographed by Neil Armstrong, early during the Apollo 11. On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy in Florida with astronauts Buzz Aldrin,...

[ad_1] There’s an old joke among astronomy students about a question on the final exam for a cosmology class. It goes like this: “Describe the Universe and give three examples.” Well, a team of researchers in Germany, the U.S., and the UK took a giant leap toward...

[ad_1] China is planning to send zebrafish to its space station in the future. The small fish species will be sent into orbit on China's Tiangong space station as part of research into the interaction between fish and microorganisms in a small closed ecosystem,...

[ad_1] The constellations Scorpius and Lupus lie among myriad stars and dark nebulae in the southern sky. Credit: Martin Heigan (Flickr) Friday, July 21The distant dwarf planet Pluto reaches opposition at midnight EDT. Located in Sagittarius, it’s best seen in the...

[ad_1] In its continued support for the Artemis missions, a three fully-electric, environmentally friendly, and specially designed vehicles were recently delivered to NASA for the purpose of ferrying future Artemis astronauts from their crew quarters to historic...

[ad_1] ESA’s wind mission Aeolus is coming home. After five years of improving weather forecasts, the satellite will return in a first-of-its-kind assisted reentry. At ESA’s Space Operations Centre in Germany, mission control will use the satellite’s remaining fuel to...

[ad_1] What games could you create with tie-down straps, a few circular rings and the magic of microgravity?The International Space Station (ISS) crew recently came up with one called "Space Dart," which engaged the multinational crew in feats of flexibility. Judging...

[ad_1] Back to Article List The infrared space telescope has discovered the possible fingerprints of a planetary system in dust rings around the young star. Three nested dust belts surround the star Fomalhaut in this JWST image. A coronagraph blocked the light from...

[ad_1] The cosmic zoo has strange beasts that astronomers stumble across in the most fascinating ways. Not long ago a team in Australia found a highly unusual magnetar, one of the weirder denizens of the starry zoo. It’s called GPM J1839-10 and it lies some 15,000...