It’s hard to think of a more challenging environment for an automotive battery than the surface of the Moon, and preparations for NASA’s Artemis program give us a chance to contrast the pioneering technology of the 1970s with where we are 50 years later. Continue Reading Category:Space, Science Tags:Rover, Lunar, artemis, NASA, General Motors, Electric Vehicles, Space exploration, Spacecraft| Space
Your body's blood-making stem cells, hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), are like factory managers who work best when calm and rested. But when stress hits, like infection or injury, they spring into action, churning out immune cells to defend you. Over time, too much stress wears them down, making them age faster and lose their spark. Continue Reading Category:Space, Science Tags:interstellar space, Astronauts, Stem Cells| Space
Over four years since it landed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance Rover might have made serious headway in its mission to find signs of ancient microbial life on the planet. Continue Reading Category:Space, Science Tags:Mars, NASA, perseverance, JPL| Space
How do you control a nuclear space propulsion system? Very carefully. To help with this, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has built a simulated nuclear reactor test bed to develop the engines that could send astronauts to Mars and beyond. Continue Reading Category:Space, Science Tags:ORNL, NASA, Nuclear Rocket| Space
CPR is a technique that has saved countless lives since the modern version was developed in the 1960s. However, it turns out it doesn't work very well in zero gravity, so a team of European cardiologists has been testing alternatives for astronauts. Continue Reading Category:Space, Science Tags:Heart attack, First Aid| Space
Astronomers have discovered a new celestial object, a compact radio beacon located in the galaxy NGS 4945, about 12 million light-years away. Its light is polarized at an almost impossible level that hints at a perfectly aligned magnetic field. The object has been nicknamed "Punctum"; it’s a signal so clean and precise that it stands out like a lighthouse beam cutting through fog. Continue Reading Category:Space, Science Tags:ALMA, Telescope| Space
ESA is working on a new system with the unfortunate acronym of Collision Risk Estimation and Automated Mitigation (CREAM) that is designed to automate the labor-intensive process of monitoring, assessing, and responding to possible space debris. Continue Reading Category:Space, Science Tags:ESA, Space Junk| Space
Imagine sipping your coffee when suddenly – BOOM! A sonic tremor rattles your home. That’s exactly what happened to one McDonough resident when a meteorite the size of a cherry tomato punched through his roof, shredded his HVAC duct, and embedded itself in his floor with the force of a close-range gunshot. Continue Reading Category:Space, Science Tags:Meteorite, Earth, Solar System| Space
If Earth needs to borrow a cup of sugar, it's comforting to know that there may be a convenient, possibly habitable, world orbiting Alpha Centauri only 4.34 light years away – at least, if the findings from the James Webb Space Telescope pan out. Continue Reading Category:Space, Science Tags:NASA, ESA, James Webb Space Telescope, Exoplanet| Space
As if hard vacuum, intense cosmic radiation, corrosive dust, meteors, and temperatures whiplashing hundreds of degrees between night and day weren't enough, personnel at future Moon bases will be at significant peril from moonquakes. Continue Reading Category:Space, Science Tags:Moon, Geology, Seismic, University of Maryland| Space
To keep solar power stations from getting lazy, Sandia National Laboratories scientist John Sandusky is looking to give heliostat mirrors a side hustle. At the National Solar Thermal Test Facility he's experimenting with getting them to hunt for asteroids at night. Continue Reading Category:Space, Science Tags:Sandia Labs, Solar Power, Asteroid| Space
Hoping to push Mars exploration into top gear and do recon for a future crewed landing, AeroVironment has released its concept for a mission consisting of half a dozen autonomous helicopters that would land on the Red Planet under their own power. Continue Reading Category:Space, Science Tags:NASA, Mars, Helicopter| Space
Using the thermal equivalent of giving it a sharp whack, NASA repaired the camera of its Jupiter-orbiting Juno probe from 370 million miles (590 million km) away after the instrument was put out of commission by the gas giant's radiation belts. Continue Reading Category:Space, Science Tags:Juno, NASA, Jupiter| Space
In a bit of an oops, Australia's return to space after almost 54 years hasn't exactly gone to plan. On July 30, 2025 at the Bowen Orbital Spaceport in North Queensland, Gilmour Space Technologies' Eris rocket crashed just 14 seconds after launch. Continue Reading Category:Space, Science Tags:Launch, Rocket, Australia| Space
From quasars to black holes and CubeSats to crewed spacecraft, New Atlas keeps you up to date with the latest space news and fantastic images from the final frontier.| New Atlas
Who watches the watchmen and who spies on the spy satellites? It turns out it's an optical package called Morning Sparrow made by Scout Space and carried by Dawn Aerospace's Aurora spaceplane to the edge of space to snap low-orbit spysats.| New Atlas
