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Topic: Space (page 4)

Alex Jones | Solar Eclipse (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Solar eclipses breed conspiracy theories

Nicole Karlis
Moon (Getty Images/MASTER)

NASA instructed to make a Moon clock

Rae Hodge
An illustration of the Earth Return Orbiter bringing samples from Mars back to Earth. After capturing the samples in orbit around Mars, the orbiter would return to Earth and release its Earth Entry System, which is depicted here in the distance. (NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC)

Is it worth returning samples from Mars?

Sarah Scoles - Undark
A view of the Milky Way supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in polarized light. (EHT Collaboration)

Black hole pic reveals Milky Way enigma

Rae Hodge
Total Solar Eclipse (Getty Images/Pitris)

Enjoy the eclipse, even if blind

David Hurd, Cassandra Runyon - The Conversation
Mars Dust Storm (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The secret history of water on Mars

Rae Hodge
Artist’s Impression of Heaviest Supermassive Binary Black Hole (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. daSilva/M. Zamani)

Heaviest black hole pair ever measured

Matthew Rozsa
Planets Neptune and Uranus (Getty Images/Jason Reed)

New moons of Uranus and Neptune found

Nicole Karlis
Logo of NASA is displayed on mobile phone screen in front of Blue Origin icon on February 27, 2023. (Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Going to space? Fly at your own risk

Elizabeth Hlavinka
An artist's impression of the Voyager 1 space probe flying past Saturn in the outer solar system, circa 1980. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

Efforts to revive NASA’s Voyager 1 probe

Troy Farah
A girl standing in the midst of the stars at night (Getty Images/sarayut Thaneerat)

Are we really made of stardust?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during a news briefing at the White House on December 04, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Fears over nuclear weapons in space

Rae Hodge
Aiming the A&M 80mm refractor on the Astro-Tech Voyager mount at the Milky Way with its laser pointer finder showing the way. (Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Satellites are ruining space exploration

Samantha Lawler - The Conversation
Moon (Getty Images/MASTER)

New Moon research illuminates its past

Matthew Rozsa
A worker wears a clean room suit as they walk past a propulsion component of the Europa Clipper spacecraft while it is prepared for a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa inside a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California on April 11, 2023. - In October 2024, NASA will launch the Europa Clipper spacecraft that will study Jupiter's moon and its underground oceans. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) (PATRICK T. FALLON / Contributor (Getty Images))

NASA lays off 530 workers at JPL

Rae Hodge
Jupiter's moon Europa in front of the planet Jupiter (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Planets' striking gravitational dance

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Artist's impression of a cloud of smoke and dust being thrown out by a red giant star. Seen from the left the star remains bright but if viewed from the right it fades to invisibility. (Philip Lucas/University of Hertfordshire)

Strange new star discovered in Milky Way

Rae Hodge
This illustration shows a concept for one of two NASA helicopters that would provide a secondary capability to pick up additional samples stashed on the surface on Mars by the Perseverance rover. (NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA's next generation space helicopters

Rae Hodge
The brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan Centaur, lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41d at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 8, 2024, for its maiden voyage, carrying Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

US moon mission a bust

Rae Hodge
An artist's impression of exoplanet WASP-69b orbiting its host star. (Adam Makarenko/W. M. Keck Observatory)

"Hot Jupiter" has a massive tail

Nicole Karlis
In this handout provided by NASA, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is launched from Launch Complex 39A, October 13, 2023 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via Getty Images)

Space missions slated for launch in 2024

Ali M. Bramson - The Conversation
This artist's concept shows what the exoplanet WASP-17 b could look like. (NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI))

Potential alien planets spotted in 2023

Nicole Karlis
Visualization of a binary star experiencing mass transfer. (Institute of Science and Technology Austria/Ylva Götberg)

"Bluest of blue" stars discovered

Nicole Karlis
Gravitation waves, 3D illustration (Getty Images/andreusK)

Hunting for sources of gravitational hum

Nicole Karlis
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