NASA astronaut Don Pettit is carried to a medical tent shortly after he and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner landed in their Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on April 19, 2025. Nasa astronaut Don Pettit marked his 70th birthday not in the quiet of retirement or with a cozy…
Neela Rajendra, who used to be the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) officer at Nasa’s jet propulsion laboratory, has been fired. The firing follows Nasa changing her designation to the “Head of Office of Team Excellence and Employee Success” in an apparent attempt to shield her from President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting DEI initiatives….
Astronomers for the first time in the history of human space exploration, snapped pictures of direct images of Neptune’s secretive auroras, marking a milestone in space exploration. Scientists had long believed that distant ice giant Neptune was displaying light-wielding shows like other worlds. Although Voyager 2 spacecraft provided fleeting summits and other worlds such as…
The vermilion, amethyst and jade ribbons of the northern and southern lights are some of Earth’s most distinctive features. But our planet doesn’t have a monopoly on auroras. Scientists have spied them throughout the solar system, weaving through the skies of Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and even on some of Jupiter’s fiery and icy moons. Lights…
Four astronauts are hoping that Friday is the day that they’ll get to head to the International Space Station. They were all ready to go on Wednesday after putting on their spacesuits and boarding their SpaceX spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But with less than 45 minutes…
NASA and SpaceX are set to launch the highly anticipated Crew-10 mission today, marking a crucial step in astronaut transport to and from the International Space Station (ISS). This mission will not only send four astronauts to the ISS but also facilitate the long-awaited return of NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have…
In this image from video provided by SpaceX, the company’s SpaceX’s Falcon rocket, carrying NASA’s newest space telescope, Spherex, lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base Nasa’s latest space telescope was launched into orbit on Tuesday with the mission to create an unprecedented map of the entire sky, observing hundreds of millions of galaxies and…
Two NASA missions finally launched from the California coast and soared toward the stars late Tuesday night, overcoming a week of delays to get to orbit. Both aim to unravel mysteries about the universe — one by peering far from Earth, the other by looking closer to home. The rocket’s chief passenger is SPHEREx, a…
After more than a week of delays, two NASA missions are again scheduled for a late-night launch aboard a single rocket. Both aim to unravel mysteries about the universe — one by peering far from Earth, the other by looking closer to home. The rocket’s chief passenger is SPHEREx, a space telescope that will take…
In an astonishing recent discovery, NASA‘s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed 36 new unknown dwarf galaxies surrounding the Andromeda galaxy. Not only does this incredible discovery reveal more about the enormous universe, but it also illuminates one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors’ mysterious cosmic neighborhood. The newly discovered dwarf galaxies, tiny but intriguing,…