Spaceflight has a broad impact on the way our body functions — and that includes our reproductive systems. Indeed, to get a better idea of how future pregnancies and new generations born to humans beyond Earth will be affected, scientists need to examine how well our reproductive germ cells and stem cells respond to potentially harmful factors, like radiation and microgravity.
Researchers from…
Watch a burnt and battered Starship splash down in Indian Ocean to wrap up historic Flight 10 (video, photos)
September 1, 2025
Spectacular new footage gives us great looks at the final moments of the latest test flight of Starship, the huge rocket SpaceX is developing to help humanity settle Mars.
That mission, the 10th-ever for the 397-foot-tall (121-meter-tall) megarocket, lifted off from…
NASA debuts new Orion mission control room for Artemis 2 astronaut flight around the moon (photos)
August 29, 2025
With shiny new next-generation spacecraft come the complex systems required to track their technologically advanced systems. When it comes to NASA’s Orion spacecraft, that need is a whole extra room of monitors.
NASA has opened a new complex in the Mission Control…
Cosmic dust particles that give birth to planets around young stars have for the first time been found forming — the James Webb Space Telescope has witnessed the creation of these tiny planetary building blocks around a dead star.
“This discovery is a big step forward in understanding how the basic materials of planets come together,” Mikako Matsuura of Cardiff University, who led…
Warped spacetime with surprise 'double-zoom' reveals radiation around distant supermassive black hole
August 28, 2025
Thanks to a theory put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago and a happy coincidence, astronomers have discovered radiation being pumped out from the core of a quasar — within which a supermassive black hole lurks.
The team, led by Matus Rybak of Leiden University…
That mysterious 'Wow! signal' from space? Scientists may finally know where it came from — and it's probably not aliens
August 28, 2025
For researchers seeking answers to the question of whether we are alone in the universe, one event nearly half a century ago lingers even today — the so-called “Wow! Signal” detected back in 1977.
That strong, baffling radio episode was captured by Ohio State…
Starship Mars rocket met 'every major objective' on epic Flight 10 test launch, SpaceX says
August 28, 2025
The Starship megarocket passed its latest launch trial with flying colors, according to SpaceX.
Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, launched from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 GMT) on Tuesday (Aug. 26), kicking off the vehicle’s 10th-ever test mission.
Flight 10 was eventful and ambitious. Starship met the challenge, “taking a…
SpaceX shared stunning photos of its Falcon 9 rocket carrying the U.S. Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane into orbit last week.
The pictures capture the nighttime launch on Aug. 21, when the robotic X-37B, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), lifted off…
James Webb Space Telescope takes 1st look at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with unexpected results
August 27, 2025
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has observed the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS for the first time. The powerful space telescope trained its infrared vision and its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument (NIRspec) on the comet on Aug. 6, 2025.
Discovered on July 1 by the…
World's most powerful solar telescope sees incredible coronal loops on the sun (image)
August 27, 2025
The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun’s corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation’s Daniel F. Inouye Solar Telescope — could be the bottom floor of the machinery that powers the ferocious flares that routinely blast out from our star.
“It’s a landmark moment in solar science,” said Cole Tamburri of the University of Colorado…
