Researchers combined satellite data and visitor surveys at dark-sky parks to quantify the economic value of dark skies amid rising light pollution.
Having already delivered samples of the asteroid Ryugu to Earth, Hayabusa2 will soon attempt one of the closest, riskiest space-rock flybys in spaceflight history.
This is truly a view like no other.
A spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage is set to impact the moon this August, but experts aren’t sure if the crash will be visible from Earth.
Just after the summer solstice, a European weather satellite managed to capture a striking image of this celestial moment from space.
Why making lunar standard time is in everyone’s best interests.
“While the site had previously been identified as an ancient impact crater, its exact age remained uncertain.”
“Measurements of two mudstones show hundreds of organic detections, making this the most robust organic detection in Jezero crater.”
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is finding clues that are leading scientists toward the origins of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.
As NASA’s Artemis program hits its stride, there’s an urgent need to guard against artistic misrepresentations of the moon, experts say.