As the lunar exploration mission evolves from exploration to construction and utilization, in situ lunar construction becomes an imperative requirement. The key is regolith solidification and formation, aiming to maximize local resource utilization while minimizing transportation and maintenance...

   Scientists on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have transformed data collected during two recent flybys of Io into animations that highlight two of the Jovian moon’s most dramatic features: a mountain and an almost glass smooth lake of cooling lava. Other recent science results from the solar powered...

   A new theory suggests that Titan’s majestic dune fields may have come from outer space. Researchers had always assumed that the sand making up Titan’s dunes was locally made, through erosion or condensed from atmospheric hydrocarbons. But researchers from the University of Colorado want to know...

   Like boulders, rocks, and pebbles scattered across a landscape, asteroids come in a wide range of sizes. Cataloging asteroids in space is tricky because they are faint and they don’t stop to be photographed as they zip along their orbits around the sun.

   The Lyrid meteor shower is underway. But with a nearly full moon in the sky during the peak, it might be tough to see clearly.

   Using data from various space telescopes and astronomical surveys, Armenian researchers have investigated three star forming regions. The study identified hundreds of young stellar objects and provided important information regarding the stellar content of these regions. The new findings were...

   SpaceX launched Wednesday evening the first of a pair of Space Coast rockets in two days, both carrying batches of the company’s Starlink satellites.

   China is bolstering its space capabilities and is using its civilian program to mask its military objectives, the head of the US space agency NASA said Wednesday, warning that Washington must remain vigilant.

   NASA is planning to repair NICER Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer , an X ray telescope on the International Space Station, during a spacewalk later this year. It will be the fourth science observatory in orbit serviced by astronauts.

   A NASA mission testing a new way of navigating our solar system is ready to hoist its sail into space not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is targeting launch on Tuesday, April Wednesday, April in New Zealand aboard a Rocket...

   Engineers at L Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, have combined all mirrors for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Preliminary tests show the newly aligned optics, collectively called the IOA Imaging Optics Assembly , will direct light into Roman’s science instruments extremely...

   NASA has confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s organic rich moon Titan. The decision allows the mission to progress to the completion of the final design, followed by the construction and testing of the entire spacecraft and science instruments.

   The PACE Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission has delivered its first operational data back to researchers, a feat made possible in part by innovative, data storing technology from NASA’s Near Space Network, which introduced two key enhancements for PACE and other upcoming science...

   A research team led by Dr. Serge Krasnokutski from the Astrophysics Laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy at the University of Jena had already demonstrated that simple peptides can form on cosmic dust particles. However, it was previously assumed that this would not be possible if...

   When astronauts embark on long space missions, they’ll need to grow their own food because pre packaged meals from Earth lose their nutritional value over time. The BioNutrients project at Ames Research Center’s Space Biosciences Division has solved this problem by using genetic engineering to...

   Just as sat nav did away with the need to argue over the best route home, scientists from the University of Surrey have developed a new method to find the optimal routes for future space missions without the need to waste fuel. The paper is published in the journal Astrodynamics.

   NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will build a moonquake detector for astronauts to deploy on the moon in during the Artemis III mission, which will return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time in more than years.

   Even intense exercise by astronauts cannot compensate for muscle atrophy caused by microgravity. Atrophy occurs, in part, by way of an underlying mechanism that regulates calcium uptake. Recent research has shown exposure to spaceflight alters the uptake of calcium in muscles. However, the...

   Deep space exploration requires a paradigm shift in astronaut medical support toward Earth independent medical operations. Currently, astronauts rely on real time communication with ground based medical providers. However, as the distance from Earth increases, so do communication delays and...

   Saturn has confirmed moons more than any other planet in the solar system but one called Enceladus stands out. It appears to have the ingredients for life.

   A piece of space junk recently crashed through the roof and floor of a man’s home in Florida. Nasa later confirmed that the object had come from unwanted hardware released from the international space station.

   A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China USTC of the Chinese Academy of Sciences CAS presented a detailed analysis of a tidal disruption event TDE with unique characteristics, providing new insights into the behavior of TDEs and their multiwavelength emissions....

   Boeing’s CST Starliner, set to take its first humans on board during the Crew Flight Test mission next month, was transported from Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mile trip to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

   The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission and to prepare the first aircraft on another world for its new role.

   Using new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope JWST , astronomers have discovered methane emission on a brown dwarf, an unexpected finding for such a cold and isolated world. Published in the journal Nature, the findings suggest that this brown dwarf might generate aurorae similar to...

   In a new study published in the The Astrophysical Journal, Dr. Li Zhenwei and his collaborators from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences CAS , and Dr. Zhang Yangyang from the Zhoukou Normal University, proposed a new formation model for massive hot subdwarfs, offering...

   Did you know the sun has moss Due to its resemblance to the earthly plants, scientists have named a small scale, bright, patchy structure made of plasma in the solar atmosphere moss. This moss, which was first identified in by NASA’s TRACE mission, blossoms around the center of a sunspot...

   Using the Southern African Large Telescope SALT , astronomers have performed high resolution observations of a recently detected extreme helium star designated EC . It turned out that EC is the most metal deficient among the population of known extreme helium stars. The...

   In this image from Feb. , , engineers lift a mast into place on NASA’s VIPER Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover robotic moon rover. VIPER’s mast and the suite of instruments affixed to it look a lot like the rover’s neck and head. The mast instruments are designed to help...

   Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, harbors a dark secret: extremely young ice deposits in permanently shadowed craters near its poles. If that sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because our moon and planet Mercury also have such polar ice deposits, which have been studied for decades.