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NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is back in operation aboard the International Space Station, giving researchers a powerful new way to investigate the fundamental nature of matter and advance the development of future quantum technologies. Taking advantage of the station’s microgravity environment, the facility enables experiments that cannot be performed on Earth. Quantum science focuses…
One small, errant drone can scrub a space launch at the cost of millions of dollars in delays, with further repercussions spanning across multiple commercial and government launch service providers. Just a single drone, with no malicious intent, could force range safety officers to abort the mission to protect the billions of dollars’ worth of…
More than 4.5 billion years ago, a huge world, potentially as large as the moon or even Mars, traveled around the young Sun before a violent collision shattered it into pieces. Scientists now say they have found the first direct evidence that this long-lost planetary embryo, known as a protoplanet, once existed. The discovery, described…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has released four stunning images of cosmic wonders, depicted in red, white and blue to coincide with the United States’ 250th anniversary on July 4. The four images reveal superheated gas in a distant galaxy cluster, the swirling spiral galaxy known as Messier 94, a glowing nebula found in our own…
Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, Cassini arrives after a seven-year journey. Were they moons? Ears? Handles? Galileo couldn’t parse the rings of Saturn (seen in this Cassini-Huygens image from 2004). Credt: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute On July 1, 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission, a collaborative undertaking by NASA, the European Space Agency…
In an arid world of ice and snow, a glacier is ‘bleeding’. A deep red flow of water stains the white landscape surrounding it, remaining liquid even at temperatures well below freezing. And it’s been doing this for more than a century. This is Antarctica’s Blood Falls – and its internal world is even stranger…
Imagine a muscle as something that has spent your entire life in conversation with gravity, constantly sensing your body’s weight, constantly adjusting, constantly being told it is needed. Now imagine cutting that conversation off entirely. That is in some ways what happens to an astronaut’s body in orbit, and it is the problem at the…
A patch of water south of Greenland and Iceland has cooled by nearly 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit since 1900. A new study suggests that it shows a crucial system of ocean currents is weakening, which could alter Earth’s climate Michele Debczak | Correspondent June 30, 2026 12:17 p.m. The “cold blob,” shown in blue near the…
A restless Earth-facing sunspot unleashed a powerful X-class solar flare on June 30, triggering radio blackouts across parts of North America. The X1.1 solar flare erupted from sunspot region AR4479, peaking at 4:50 p.m. EDT (2050 GMT) according to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. The intense burst of X-rays released during the eruption reached Earth…
Enabling & Support 07/04/2026 1542 views 24 likes ESA’s newest deep space antenna, DSA 4 (also called NNO-3), is now fully online – representing a powerful new addition that strengthens the Agency’s reach across the Solar System and boosts the capacity and resilience of its global Estrack network for communicating with spacecraft in deep space….