Browsing: Space Exploration
In 2023, debate erupted in the astronomy community about whether life could exist on an exoplanet called K2-18b. It started…
NASA’s Artemis 2 crew wants your help designing the plush toy that will fly with them around the moon.
By Vidya Saras
The first astronauts preparing to fly to the moon in more than 50 years want your help identifying their fifth…
‘We should be living on Mars by now!’ Red Planet and Voyager 1’s Pale Blue Dot steal the spotlight in NYC rock show
By Vidya Saras
NEW YORK — Alternative rockers Andy Frasco and the U.N. were a force to be reckoned with on the stage…
T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), popularly known as the “Blaze Star,” is surely on the verge of a rare and…
As the hunt for dark matter, the universe’s most common yet most mysterious “stuff,” continues, scientists are understandably eager to…
A total lunar eclipse will occur on March 13-14, 2025 — the first on Earth since 2022 — but only…
‘It’s extremely worrisome.’ NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch
By Vidya Saras
The scientists behind NASA’s largest and most powerful space telescope ever built are bracing for potentially crippling budget cuts, and…
3D-printed ‘hydrogels’ could be future space radiation shields for astronaut trips to Mars
By Vidya Saras
Spend a single day outside our planet’s protective atmosphere and magnetic field, and you could be exposed to radiation levels…
It is not unusual to see a Saturn V launch while viewing a film at Space Center Houston. Never before,…
Scientist image 3-million-light-year-long ‘cosmic web’ ensnaring 2 galaxies for 1st time
By Vidya Saras
Astronomers have imaged a spectacular thread in the cosmic web, connecting two actively forming galaxies that existed when the universe…