New 'Starfield' live-action trailer slingshots fans straight into the cosmos (video) (www.space.com)
Check out this Gamescon 2023 preview for the highlyanticipated open-world sci-fi extravaganza.
NASA Surprised by Cracks in Ancient Martian Mud Discovered by Mars Curiosity Rover (scitechdaily.com)
New research suggests the same conditions that created the cracks could have been favorable to the emergence of microscopic life. Scientists aren’t entirely sure how life began on Earth, but one prevailing theory posits that persistent cycles of wet and dry conditions on land helped assemble the
TESS has found thousands of possible exoplanets: Which ones should JWST study? (phys.org)
There are more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets in our galaxy. That number is going to rise significantly in the next decade. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has already cataloged more than 4,000 candidate exoplanets, and the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is scheduled to launch in 2026.
Chandrayaan-3: The moment India's lunar rover Pragyaan stepped out for Moonwalk (www.bbc.com)
India's space agency Isro's new footage shows Chandrayaan-3's rover Pragyaan for the first time ever.
Hackers are Attacking Observatories (www.universetoday.com)
Japan's 'Moon Sniper' mission looks to match Indian success (phys.org)
See 1st photos of the moon's south pole by India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander (www.space.com)
India's Chandrayan-3 mission has nailed its lunar landing.
Chandrayaan-3's rover is rolling out (media.kbin.social)
James Webb Space Telescope survey reveals fewer supermassive black holes than presumed (phys.org)
A University of Kansas survey of a swath of the cosmos using the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed active galactic nuclei (AGN)—supermassive black holes that are rapidly increasing in size—are rarer than many astronomers had assumed previously.
Live Coverage: India’s Chandrayaan 3 probe heads for lunar landing - They have stuck the landing (spaceflightnow.com)
Soft landing achieved.
Spies and hackers are targeting the US space industry: report (www.space.com)
The warning comes as the U.S. space economy is predicted to reach $1 trillion by 2030.
Chandrayaan-3: How India’s Moon Mission with a modest budget stands apart (www.moneycontrol.com)
The Indian space agency is all set to land its probe, which was made at a fraction of the budget of recent Hollywood blockbusters, on the surface of the Moon, a task that has historically had a low success rate.
Terraforming: why the Moon is a better target than Mars (bigthink.com)
The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here's how to terraform our lunar neighbor.
Russia's Luna-25 crashes into moon after orbit maneuver (spacenews.com)
Russia’s Luna-25 mission ended in failure after crashing into the moon, space agency Roscosmos has announced.
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer satellite is ready to hunt for water on the moon (www.space.com)
Lunar Trailblazer joins a growing list of probes and landers heading toward the moon to search for water ice.
This Canadian satellite was supposed to last 2 years in space. It's now celebrating 20 (www.space.com)
Scisat tracks changes in the atmosphere that could 'delay the ozone recovery in a warming world.'
Astronomers find 1st evidence of heavy black hole seeds in the early universe (www.space.com)
This could explain how supermassive black holes grew to have masses billions of times that of the sun so quickly in the early universe.
The "airless" Moon really does have an atmosphere, after all (bigthink.com)
We once thought the Moon was completely airless, but it turns out it has an atmosphere, after all. Even wilder: it has a tail of its own.
First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history (www.space.com)
How humanity responds to the first contact with intelligent alien life could determine the very fate of our species.
NASA working to get private space stations up and running before ISS retires in 2030 (www.space.com)
Microgravity research and technology development on the ISS will continue "full throttle" through the end of 2030, the agency says.
Space mining company developing nuclear reactor and more for moon projects (www.space.com)
NASA astronaut Drew Feustel just joined to map its strategy.
A fusion rocket designed to travel 500,000 mph is under construction (bigthink.com)
Using nuclear fusion, Pulsar's rocket could dramatically increase travel speeds, aiming for tests by 2025 and fusion temperatures by 2027.
Meet the SpaceX Crew-7 astronauts launching to the ISS on Aug. 25 (www.space.com)
Four astronauts from four countries are on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Could white holes actually exist? (www.space.com)
White holes are mathematically possible, according to general relativity. But does that mean they're actually out there?