Mission Control for Your Curiosity

• Bone-loss research from Kelly's 2001 shuttle mission produced cancer drugs Prolia and Xgeva.
• NASA tech yielded heart-failure monitors and portable...

Webb's fourth anniversary images highlight its power across vastly different scales.

• Nearby galaxies: Centaurus A reveals star-by-star details and...

• Launch boom: 270 annual rockets, record frequency and competitive prices
• Operator panic: Telesat swamped with sharing requests; Amazon throttling...

Starship development reveals sharp tensions between technical ambition, regulatory gates, and local pushback.

• Technical push: Flight 14 targets the...

Signs of planet formation at surprisingly early cosmic stages suggest habitable worlds could have existed long before the Milky Way matured. This...

Astronomers measuring exoplanet rotation may often detect atmospheric winds instead, since Venus clouds circle the planet roughly 60 times faster than its actual spin.

The Artemis II crew kicked off flight day 2 with a lively wake-up from John Legend's "Green Light," plus personal messages from the NASA...

• Rarity standout: HIP 61637 b orbits the brightest and most massive star known to host a brown dwarf, a 3-solar-mass star 700 light-years away.
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Einstein Probe detected the X-ray shock breakout of SN 2026gzf within seconds of the explosion beginning 500 million light-years away. This rare...

Chinese researchers outline the evolution of exoplanet detection from ground-based discovery to space-based detailed characterization.

• Indirect...

• Dual-coast launches 38 minutes apart treat pads like airport gates, pushing SpaceX past 160 annual missions.
• Reusability and automated protocols...

MoM-BH*-1, spotted by JWST when the universe was just 660 million years old, looks like a giant red star but packs 100 billion times a star's energy*...

• JWST detected a faint mid-IR point source near Alpha Centauri A in August 2024, consistent with a Saturn-mass planet at ~2 AU.
• Follow-up...

JWST delivers a rare near-infrared view of Herbig-Haro 46/47, where two protostars still feed from a shared dusty disk while launching jets that carve...

NASA recognizes thousands of exoplanets, with the number continuing to grow.

NASA's lunar base plans could drive major upgrades and growth at Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore.

• Infrastructure push: New launch...

Jupiter's immense gravity likely prevented primitive Earth from drifting too close to the Sun, preserving its place in the Goldilocks zone where...

The AstroRad vest reduced radiation doses by 60% during a simulated 1972-level solar storm and nearly 40% in a 1989-level event on Artemis I's Zohar...

• Radiation shielding: AstroRad vest tested on Artemis I manikin cut solar flare doses by 40-60% for key organs.
• Crew hands-on control: Artemis II...

Recent observations are mapping the final stages of stars in unprecedented detail.

• Helix Nebula study shows at least 22 bow shocks fragmenting and...