Back to Article List Mars was once a much wetter world, with abundant water flowing across its surface. What happened to all that water? The Viking orbiters captured global imagery of Mars, from which this mosaic was produced. Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS Mars has...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx delivered its precious cargo to Earth on September 24th, 2023. The sample from asteroid Bennu is contained inside the spacecraft’s sampling head, and it’s in safe hands at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Two stubborn fasteners delayed...

Science & Exploration 18/01/2024 3353 views 13 likes ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt from Sweden blasted into space tonight from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, at 21:49 GMT (22:49 CET, 16:49 local time). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched...

Earth, our rocky, watery oasis in the cosmos is the ideal place for life to flourish for a number of reasons. We sit at just the right distance from our home star for liquid water to exist on the planet's surface. The gravitational pull of other large planets...

Back to Article List Astronomers have spotted the oldest black hole ever seen, about 400 million years after the Big Bang, wolfing down material much faster than expected. An illustration of a supermassive black hole and its accretion disk. Credit: NASA/Aurore...

ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt launched together with the rest of the Axiom-3 crew at 22:49 CET on 18 January 2024, from launch pad 39A, NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. Marcus will start his Muninn mission when he enters the International Space...

Writer/producer Jon Favreau is currently ramping up the development phase for Disney+'s "The Mandalorian" Season 4, and he's in the nascent stages of directing the recently announced "The Mandalorian & Grogu" feature for Lucasfilm.  While there's a...

Back to Article List Scores of amateur astronomers attended the event, which will live on in its impressive library of information. The Advanced Imaging Conference was established in 2004 and served amateur astronomers who loved capturing photos of sky objects...

ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt took off on 18 January 2024 as part of the Axiom-3 crew for a 14-day mission to the International Space Station. After 36 hours catching up to the Space Station, the Dragon docked to the Space Station, the seal between the two...

On Episode 94 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod preview the global plans for spaceflight this year.2024 looks to be another exciting year in spaceflight! Despite the delay of the Artemis crewed lunar program, a number of exciting missions are queued up this...