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).
space NASA Shared New Stunning Photos of the Moon's South Pole The images were taken by a highly sensitive optical ShadowCam camera carried around the Moon by the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), which launched in August 2022 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
space Astronomers Spotted a Star Swallowing Its Planet for the First Time The Sun will swallow the three closest planets to it (Mercury, Venus, and Earth) when it enters the red giant stage in about five billion years. According to scientists, this observation gave the first real idea of how this engulfment occurs.
space A Key to a Crypto Wallet Holding 62 Bitcoins Will Be Sent to the Moon The key will be engraved on a probe that will be delivered to the Moon by a SpaceX rocket this fall. The company also claims that no one will have access to the key, including employees within the company.
space Scientists Confirmed the Composition of Mars's Core Using Seismic Waves Scientists were able to confirm the composition of Mars's core using seismic waves that traveled through the Red Planet. It turned out that Mats has a liquid core made of iron alloy and high amounts of sulfur and oxygen.
space You Can Now Compare the Sizes of Different Space Objects on a Dedicated Website The website is called Space Object Comparison. It includes the following categories of space objects that can be compared: black holes, space objects from the solar system, Alpha Centauri, Kepler-10 system, Sirius system, and others.
space Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit Files for Bankruptcy The announcement comes just days after the company said it would pause operations and lay off nearly all of its workforce. Impacted employees will reportedly receive severance packages.
space Relativity Space Launched the World's First 3D-Printed Rocket into Space Terran 1 failed to reach orbit in its test flight, but it represents a significant achievement. First-launch failures happen quite often and help gather valuable data for future developments and missions.
space NASA Unveils the Most Detailed 3D Map of Mars The most detailed interactive map of Mars has a resolution of about 25 square meters per pixel and was created by the scientists of the Bruce Murray Planetary Visualization Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology over the course of six years.
