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German astronaut set for 2028 moon mission, European Space Agency says

The European Space Agency (ESA) is confident that a German astronaut will be selected to fly to the moon on one of two lunar ...

Artemis III pilot Luca Parmitano recalls witnessing 'devastating' Black Summer bushfires from space

Luca Parmitano was commanding the International Space Station when bushfires devastated eastern Australia. He has a blunt warning for the future of the planet.

Irish company secures million-dollar contract with European Space Agency

Pilot Photonics, a spin-out company of Dublin City University, signed a deal with the European Space Agency to expand ...

NASA Artemis III crew, X-59 supersonic plane, SpaceX launch top space newsletter

NASA's Artemis III crew, X-59 supersonic plane and another SpaceX Starlink mission highlight 321 Launch, FLORIDA TODAY's weekly space newsletter.

NASA’s Chandra Observatory spots possible supernova remnant in the middle of our galaxy

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory has captured a dramatic scene about 26,000 light-years away from Earth. Scientists suspect ...

A supernova remnant may have been found near the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole

Located around 26,000 light-years from Earth, the remnant is one of the closest to Sagittarius A*.

Chandra reveals flickering supernova remnants in M83 over 14 years

The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed ...

Lightsails have hit another speed bump on the road to interstellar travel

A new study suggests laser-driven interstellar lightsails may face a hidden efficiency problem as the very light pushing them starts behaving less helpfully.

Sound cannot travel through the vacuum of space, because there is no air to carry it

Every time NASA releases a new audio clip tied to a black hole or a distant nebula, millions of listeners share it as proof ...

Large black hole discovered through gravitational lensing

Learn how a "black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away" using gravitational ...

Rethinking the Black Hole Singularity

Black holes have been understood as infinite singularities for a century. In 1916, months after Einstein published general ...

Should we really go to Mars? (with Bill Nye)

Should We Really Go To Mars? (with Bill Nye) ...

SpaceX is aiming to send its first uncrewed Starships toward Mars this November

SpaceX has set its sights on launching uncrewed Starship vehicles toward Mars this November, targeting the same Earth–Mars ...

NASA's 'Son of Concorde' breaks the sound barrier

NASA's $247 million supersonic jet hits 713mph during test flight and paves the way for flights from London to New York in ...

NASA spots the possible remains of a massive supernova in the middle of the Milky Way

If the supernova remnant is confirmed, it would be one of the closest to the supermassive black hole that lies in the center of the Milky Way

NASA's SPHEREx telescope begins mapping the entire sky

NASA has begun taking 3,600 unique images each day to create a new map of the cosmos with its newly-launched SPHEREx ...

The harsh physics behind interstellar travel and why Earth may never be visited by aliens

There is something almost offensive about a sky so full of stars and so empty of company. That is what gives Richard ...

Black Hole Star-Shredding Events Defy Jet Taxonomy: VLA Finds Accretion Is the Control Variable

Tidal disruption events are far more diverse than the two-category model suggested, a first systematic 300-hour VLA radio survey presented at AAS 248 finds, with accretion flow now confirmed as the

See 'Diamond Planet,' exploding star and black hole in Smithsonian VR experience

PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, ...

Collapsing stars could form gravastars instead of black holes

A black hole is supposed to be the last word in stellar collapse: matter falls inward, spacetime caves in, and a singularity ...