Artemis II Insignia Honors All 3 Apr 2025, 1:55 pm

The four astronauts who will be the first to fly to the Moon under NASA's Artemis campaign – NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen – have designed an emblem to represent their mission that references both their distant destination and the home they will return to.

X-ray Clues Reveal Destroyed Planet 2 Apr 2025, 1:10 pm

In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and expand, possibly engulfing Earth. These end stages of a star’s life can be utterly beautiful – as is the case with this planetary nebula called the Helix Nebula. Astronomers study these objects by looking at all kinds of light. This images show X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (magenta), optical light data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (orange, light blue), infrared data from the European Southern Observatory VISTA telescope (gold, dark blue), and ultraviolet data from GALEX (purple) of the Helix Nebula.

The Da Vinci Glow 

The Da Vinci Glow

 

Why does Jupiter have rings?

SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites to orbit from California

SpaceX sent 27 of its Starlink internet satellites toward low Earth orbit from California this evening (April 3).

SpinLaunch wants to send 250 broadband 'microsatellites' to orbit with a single launch

SpinLaunch has unveiled its plans for a new broadband satellite constellation known as Meridian Space.