May 16, 2023 NASA’s Juno spacecraft will fly by Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io In the latest of more than 50 flybys, NASA's Juno spacecraft is slated to pass Jupiter's volcanic moon Io on Tuesday. The agency said this will be the closest flyby to date.
May 13, 2023 NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captures images of what may have been a wild river NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may have captured images of what once was a flowing river while exploring Jezero Crater. NASA scientists are also looking under the Martian surface.
May 12, 2023 Southern California startup Vast announces plans to launch world's first commercial space station Vast, a southern California company, announced plans to launch the world's first commercial space station. That station would launch to low-Earth orbit no sooner than August 2025.
May 11, 2023 Hubble Space Telescope looks into center of vast galaxy cluster almost 9 billion light-years away NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a galaxy cluster nearly nine billion light-years away in the constellation Draco, as well as its surroundings.
May 5, 2023 The rings of Saturn are falling in on the planet as icy rain, scientists say Scientists say that Saturn's rings are falling in on the planet as icy rain due to the gas giant's intense gravity. Saturn's rings are made of pieces of comets, asteroids or moons.
April 29, 2023 Webb Space Telescope sees massive protocluster of galaxies in the early universe Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, a protocluster of seven galaxies has been confirmed just 650 million years after the big bang, for the first time.
April 26, 2023 NASA extracts oxygen from lunar soil simulant for the first time NASA scientists have extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil in a vacuum environment for the first time, conducting the test in similar conditions to those on the moon.
April 25, 2023 Ada Limón reappointed as US poet laureate Ada Limón has been reappointed for a second term as U.S. poet laureate and has several projects under development, including a poem for NASA’s Europa Clipper mission.
April 23, 2023 Northern Lights potentially visible in dozens of states on Sunday due to powerful solar storm A powerful geomagnetic storm that is hitting the Earth on Sunday could allow auroral activity to be visible as far south as Alabama, according to the NOAA.
April 21, 2023 Old NASA satellite tumbles to Earth over Sahara Desert, agency says NASA's Rhessi satellite, launched in 2002, tumbled to Earth over the Sahara Desert. The agency said the crash of the 660-pound spacecraft occurred early in the morning in Sudan.