NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, deposited its first sample of rocks on the Red Planet’s surface Wednesday for an eventual return to Earth. The rover placed a titanium tube containing the…
NASA officially ended its InSight Mars lander mission on Wednesday after the spacecraft missed two consecutive communication attempts. Power on the lander had been dwindling in recent months as a…
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander has recorded its biggest quake on Mars ever. According to new research published in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) journal Geophysical Research Letters, the international team…
The James Webb Space Telescope team announced Thursday that scientists had discovered dozens of energetic jets and outflows from young stars previously hidden by dust clouds in one of the…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft’s mission to Jupiter has set its sights on the moon Io. The agency said in a release, sharing a striking image of the moon’s volcano-laced surface captured…
The annual Geminids Meteor shower is peaking Wednesday morning and will be visible through Dec. 17. According to NASA, the shower started at or around 9 or 10 p.m. CST…
A coolant leak detected from the aft end of the Russian space capsule docked to the International Space Station was likely caused by a micrometeorite strike, according to a Russian…
NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down in the ocean Sunday after a 25-day uncrewed test flight around the moon, concluding a mission that paves the way for astronauts on the next…
U.S. energy officials announced Tuesday that government scientists in California produced the first successful nuclear fusion reaction resulting in net energy gain. “This is what it looks like for America…
Michelle Huang Michelle Huang’s been talking with her younger self a lot lately, thanks to real-time written conversations with an AI chatbot she trained on entries from her childhood journals. …
