2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (345+ words) NASA knew that the paths the Voyager twins were on would take them out of the solar system, and they thought it would be unwise not to put evidence of our existence out there. Thus came the idea of the…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (558+ words) starlust.org Nine flybys and six billion miles: ESA shares thrilling footage from BepiColombo's eight-year voyage The BepiColombo entered its tricky 'Mercury arrival phase' just last week after eight long years of interplanetary journey. So far, it has completed nine…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (359+ words) Michele Cirasuolo, the MOONS Principal Investigator, said watching first light happen was an emotional moment after years of work by the team. He said the instrument will let astronomers study stars and galaxies going back more than 13 billion years. While…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (204+ words) Nearly a thousand years ago, astronomers witnessed a supernova so bright it was visible in daylight for weeks. Its remnant, the Crab Nebula, has continued expanding 6,500 light-years away ever since. In 2024, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revisited the nebula, capturing a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (572+ words) starlust.org Astronomers just named the landing site for NASA’s Dragonfly spacecraft on Saturn’s moon Titan The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has just approved the naming of a region on Titan—one of Saturn's moons that holds many a planetary…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (612+ words) says new study starlust.org Moon may have formed in 5 hours after a Mars-sized object smashed Earth, says new study A recent study has shed new light on the formation of the Moon, an event that has been quite a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (171+ words) As per NASA, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists study some of the biggest mysteries of the universe, which include “dark matter, dark energy, exoplanets, and almost anything from our own solar system to galaxies at the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (541+ words) Have you ever wondered why the night sky appears to be dark with only a few stars across it? There are trillions of stars in our universe, and at least 100 billion planets across the Milky Way galaxy alone. For a…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (291+ words) On August 21, NASA's team enclosed the observatory within the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket’s fairing. The encapsulation was carried out in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 43-foot-tall fairing that will be mounted atop…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (324+ words) starlust.org NASA's Artemis II astronauts to receive Congressional Space Medal of Honor on August 28; Here’s how to watch the ceremony live The four astronauts who flew to the Moon earlier this year will receive the highest U.S. government award…...