space NASA's Perseverance Rover Discovers a Doughnut-Shaped Rock on Mars The rock, which resembles a doughnut, was captured in a photograph taken on Friday, June 23. It is surrounded by other rocks of a similar shade, indicating a shared origin that could extend beyond Mars.
space Startup Varda Space Launched Its First In-Orbit Space Factory The spacecraft was deployed into orbit by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. It will remain at an altitude of approximately 1,000 kilometers for about a month before altering its trajectory and returning to Earth.
space Astronomers Discover a Collapsing Star Turning into a Gigantic Diamond Since the age of the universe is approximately 13.8 billion years, diamond stars have not yet fully formed, but some are already starting to undergo this extraordinary metamorphosis. HD 190412 C is believed to be one such object.
space Rocket Company Skyrora Began Testing Its New 3D-Printed Engines The tests, which will run weekly throughout the summer, are taking place at the company's testing site in Midlothian, Scotland.
space NASA Administrator Says Humanity Can Land on Mars by 2040 NASA believes that the goal of landing humans on Mars can be achieved by 2040. The agency is working on various technological advancements and mission plans to make this ambitious objective a reality.
space SpaceX Starship Has a Better Chance of a Successful Launch After an Overhaul SpaceX is preparing for a new test flight of its giant rocket system, Starship, and according to CEO Elon Musk, the chances of the next flight's success have significantly improved thanks to a major overhaul of the system.
space BepiColombo Snaps New Images of Mercury During Its Third Flyby During its recent flyby, BepiColombo made measurements of the planet's environment and snapped images of its scorched surface. The European Space Agency (ESA) released the first batch of images just 24 hours after the closest approach.
space NASA's Sun-Touching Parker Solar Probe Catches the Solar Wind By uncovering the origin of the solar wind, NASA's Parker Solar Probe brings scientists one step closer to understanding the complex behavior of our star and improving our ability to predict and mitigate the impacts of solar activity on Earth.
space Saturn's Iconic Rings Are Disappearing Over time, the rings lose tons of mass every second, ultimately leading to their disappearance. Scientists estimate that the rings may last for another few hundred million years before vanishing completely.
space Elon Musk's SpaceX Hires 14-Year-Old Software Engineer SpaceX has hired a 14-year-old software engineer. Kairan Quazi, a prodigious talent, recently completed his bachelor's degree at Santa Clara University, becoming the youngest graduate in the institution's history.
space Scientists Discover a New 'Quasi-Moon' Near Earth The discovery of this new quasi-moon was made by the Pan-STARRS observatory in March. Its existence was subsequently confirmed by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and two observatories in Arizona.
space Scientists Discover a Gargantuan Geyser on Saturn's Moon The eruption, observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in November 2022, was recently detailed at a conference held at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore on May 17.
space NASA Invites People to Send Their Names to Jupiter's Moon Europa The names, along with the poem, will be engraved onto a special microchip, creating a symbolic message in a bottle that will accompany the Europa Clipper spacecraft as it embarks on its historical mission.
space ESA Held the First-Ever Livestream from Mars The livestream featured images captured by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) onboard the Mars Express spacecraft. These images were transmitted to Earth and then streamed directly on YouTube.
space A Giant Black Spot Four Times the Size of Earth Has Formed on the Sun Sunspots are areas with an extremely active magnetic field and sometimes serve as sources of strong solar flares, which lead to geomagnetic storms on Earth. Astronomers have been observing the AR3310 sunspot for some time.
space NASA's Juno Probe Captures New Stunning Views of Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io The new images have confirmed the high volcanic activity of Io, with countless volcanoes and lava flows seen on the surface of Jupiter's satellite. NASA estimates that there are hundreds of actively erupting volcanoes over the surface of IO.
space Hubble Space Telescope Reveals a Rare Intermediate-Sized Black Hole The data collected by Hubble rule out alternative explanations for the object, such as a compact central cluster of stellar remnants like neutron stars, or smaller black holes orbiting each other.
space The Most Powerful Solar Telescope Has Captured New Views of the Sun's Surface The Inouye Solar Telescope's unique ability to collect data in unprecedented detail will help scientists better understand the Sun's magnetic field and the processes that take place thereon.
space Astronomers Created a New Detailed Map of the Milky Way The map is comprised of 21,400 individual exposures, with a final image showing a huge 3.32 billion celestial objects. The collected data accounts for around 6.5 percent of the entire night sky.
space The Milky Way May Have a Different Shape Than We Previously Thought After a detailed study of the collected and systematized data, scientists suggested that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy with only two main arms extending from a centralized cluster of stars.
space Virgin Galactic Announces Its First Commercial Flight to Space Billionaire Richard Branson's space tourism company Virgin Galactic announced that a test flight of four crew members will take place in May, and the first commercial flight is scheduled for late June 2023.
space Astronomers Detect the Largest Cosmic Explosion Ever Seen The cause of the mysterious blast is unclear, but astronomers believe it is likely the result of a vast cloud of gas thousands of times larger than the Sun being swallowed up by a supermassive black hole.
space Startup Vast and SpaceX to Launch the First Commercial Space Station The mission is actually available for booking: the company invites not only professional astronauts and space agencies but also private individuals who do either scientific or philanthropic work to join the flight.
space Astronomers Discover Two Super-Earths Orbiting a Star Nearby Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a group of astronomers were able to discover two super-Earths that revolve around a nearby red dwarf known as TOI-2095 within its habitable zone.
space Europe's Latest Weather Satellite Took an Incredibly Detailed Image of Earth Launched into space last December, the European Meteosat Third Generation Imager-1 is the first next-generation satellite set to revolutionize weather forecasting in Europe, according to the European Space Agency (ESA).
