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The passengers on Blue Origin’s upcoming NS-33 suborbital mission. (Image credit: Blue Origin) The next Blue Origin tourism mission is upon us, as the space company maintains a steady monthly pace of private suborbital launches. NS-33 will be Blue Origin’s 13th crewed launch to date, and the fifth New Shepard launch of 2025. The mission […]

The nocturnal sky of June rotates above the head in this image of Stella Trail. Credit: Jeremy Stanley (Flickr, CC By-NC-SA 2.0) Forty ways to get to know a star: use the stars to understand astronomy Princeton Architectural PressNew York, New York In forty ways to get to know a star: use the stars to

Solar Orbiter imaging spectrographer, Spice, took this unprecedented image of the South Pole of the Sun. It is a brightness map that shows excited carbon or ions atoms, within a thin transition region of the sun in which the temperature increases quickly and dramatically. Credit: Esa & Nasa/Solar Orbiter/Spice Team, M. Janvier (ESA) and J.

An Artemis 2 crew member practices the emergency procedures for an abort mission scenario. (Image credit: NASA/Isaac Watson) With the upcoming Artemis 2 mission slated for launch in April 2026, the crew members practice all scenarios, including the worst cases. What is it? Crew members assigned to the Artemis 2 mission practice with mannequins inside

The sun will reach its most northern point on June 20, marking the start of the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere. (Image credit: Starry Night) Summer will officially arrive on Friday in what is known as the Summer Solstice. At 10:42 p.m. EDT on June 20 (0242 GMT on June 21), the sun will

The Pismis-Moreno 1 open cluster is involved with the Nebula Sharlex 1-140 emission, visible in this image made with the 4M Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Credit: KPNO Here is a strange open star cluster that I bet you have never seen: it is cataloged like Pismis-Moren 1. Singing on to a high

An image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way dubbed Sagittarius A* (Image credit: Event Horizon Telescope collaboration) A powerful new technique is poised to revolutionize how astronomers observe black holes, by producing sharp, multicolored images that could reveal their dynamic evolution in real time. By compensating for Earth’s turbulent

Mars’ Valles Marineris is a huge valley system that runs across the planet’s red colored surface. (Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / USGS) This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. People from cultures across the world have been looking at Mars since

The great Dipper and the little ladle. Credit: Bill and Sally Fletcher Ah, spring. Finally, it is quite hot that also subtle blood observers (like me) break their binoculars and telescopes. If you are new to astronomy, however, we advise you to familiarize yourself with the constellations and bright stars that populate the night sky

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile, seen in August 2024. Rubin will revolutionize the way we explore the cosmos. Using the largest camera ever built, Rubin will repeatedly scan the sky for 10 years and create an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition, time-lapse record of our universe. (Image credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/A. Pizarro D.)