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(Image credit: The asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI). This is one of the most detailed images returned by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft during its flyby. ) NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, currently headed toward Jupiter on an asteroid-hopping mission, has captured an impressive close-up of its second target: the space rock 52246 Donaldjohanson. […]

M83 as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope which might have detected a hidden supermassive black hole in this spiral galaxy. (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the FEAST JWST team) Scientists have long believed that monster-sized supermassive black holes lurk at the heart of all large galaxies. That

(Image credit: Epic Games) Begun, the Fortnite War has… again. Just ahead of Star Wars Day 2025, Epic Games’ massive online game will receive a new Star Wars-themed season, which will include new playable content and more than a few surprising cameos. While many of the upcoming Star Wars video games are shaping up to

The Orion Crew Module, also known as the Orion Environmental Test Article (ETA), underwent a jettison test of its forward bay cover at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. (Image credit: NASA/Jordan Salkin) NASA’s Orion test article was exposed to launch abort-level acoustics prior to testing its forward bay cover’s ability to jettison

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only body beyond Earth known to host stable bodies of liquid on its surface. (Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho) Scientists have known for a while that Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has rivers and seas of liquid methane on its surface. But it’s strangely lacking in deltas, a

SpaceX’s CRS-32 Dragon cargo capsule, with the ELVIS 3D microscope on board, nears the International Space Station for docking on April 22, 2025. (Image credit: NASA) A new microscope just arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) to help study life’s adaptability under extreme conditions using an innovative imaging technique. The Extant Life Volumetric Imaging

Happy Earth Day! April 22 is traditionally known as Earth Day, the occasion where we pause as temporary travelers on our ‘blue marble’ to honor and respect our precious planetary home and its immeasurable beauty, allowing for greater appreciation of this distinctive world’s bounty of resources. This yearly reflective holiday was first founded as Earth

The astronaut Tom Stafford (first floor) is located with Wally Schirra in the Gemini 6 spatial vehicle before launch. Nasa Sixty years ago, a fleet of elegant spaceships opened the path to America to land a man on the moon. Project Gemini was a series of two men and orbital missions that opened the road

NASA astronaut Story Musgrave moves about in space shuttle Endeavour’s cargo bay during the deployment of the solar array panels on the Hubble Space Telescope during the final of five STS-61 spacewalks, on Dec. 9, 1993.  (Image credit: NASA) Jump to: Deployment Servicing Mission 1 Servicing Mission 2 Servicing Mission 3A Servicing Mission 3B Servicing

Hestia is a compact device that will allow you to capture images of the sun, the moon and a number of bright objects. Credit: Vaonis Vaonis’s new telescope is the third of the innovative tools of the company that I saw and, once again, I am impressed. Vaonis has appointed their creation for the Greek