Space

NASA's oldest active astronaut has redefined traveling "home" for your birthday, landing from the International Space Station on the same day that he turned 70.Don Pettit touched down on Saturday (April 19) with his Soyuz MS-26 crewmates, Aleksey Ovchinin,...

Two NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station, conducting U.S. spacewalk 93 on Thursday, May 1, to complete station upgrades. NASA will preview the upcoming spacewalk during a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 24,...

If you’re the kind of person who keeps an eye on astronomical news – or glances at any news...

EnglishFrom 7 to 11 April, ESA's Centre for Earth Observation in Frascati, ESRIN, hosted the 2025 edition of ESA School Days, welcoming almost 1400 young students.The event kicked off with primary school students (4th and 5th grades) visiting during the...

Written by Margaret Deahn, Ph.D. Student at Purdue UniversityLast week, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover continued its journey down lower ‘Witch Hazel Hill’ on the Jezero crater rim. The rover stopped along a boundary visible from orbit dividing light and...

Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful events in the Universe, briefly outshining the combined light of their entire galaxies. A team of astronomers has figured out a clever technique to use the light from gamma-ray bursts to map out...

Agency 16/04/2025 50 views 3 likesEach year, cutting-edge technologies developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for its complex missions and scientific discoveries find new life in applications used to benefit Earth and improve our daily lives.From 9–13 April, ESA...

A new model of the cosmos does away with the universe's two most troubling and mysterious elements, dark energy and dark matter, collectively referred to as the dark universe. Here's the idea.The new concept replaces the dark universe with...

More than a century ago, explorers from several countries raced to reach the globe’s southernmost point, driven by fierce...

Written by Natalie Moore, Mission Operations Specialist at Malin Space Science SystemsEarth planning date: Wednesday, April 9, 2025Our drive from Monday’s plan was mostly successful, putting us ~22 meters down the “road” out of an expected 30 meters. A...