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Inside the Tense Decision Between NASA and Boeing to Send Starliner Home Alone

— Boeing Tension erupted between NASA and Boeing officials when the decision had to be made over whether or not the Starliner spacecraft would come home with its two astronauts, officials revealed in a press conference on Wednesday. During the last meeting NASA and Boeing held to discuss technical data, which occurred last month, the […]

Exclusive: Inside the Quest to Create the First-Ever Movie of A Black Hole

The next generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) — an array of worldwide radio telescopes that converge to create an Earth-sized virtual telescope — is working on creating the first ever moving image of a black hole. “We want to make dynamical, moving, living, breathing, movies of black holes,” ngEHT leader Shep Doeleman tells Inverse. In […]

A ‘Speckling of Stars’ At the Edge of the Milky Way Is Still Puzzling Astronomers

— NASA, ESA, A. del Pino Molina (CEFCA), K. Gilbert and R. van der Marel (STScI), A. Cole (University of Tasmania); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Leo A lacks galactic glamor. NASA’s newly-published image of this dwarf galaxy is missing the Milky Way’s pizzazz, and Andromeda’s visual riches. But that’s what makes […]

Look! The ESA’s JUICE Spacecraft Just Performed A Daring Slingshot Around Earth

A spacecraft bound for Jupiter just took a few snapshots of Earth as it slingshotted past its home planet. It’s next stop? Venus. The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) recently swung past Earth for a quick visit on its oddly meandering, but surprisingly fuel-efficient, route to Jupiter. JUICE breezed past the Moon […]

An Object In Space Is Moving At One Million Miles An Hour and Astronomers Aren’t Sure What It Is

— W.M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Something in space powerful enough to slingshot a would-be star out of the Milky Way at a million miles an hour is mystifying scientists. A team of citizen scientists first discovered the object while they were working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds Planet 9 project, which uses images from the space […]

Saturn’s Moon Mimas May Be Way More Inhabitable Than We First Thought

— NASA/JPL/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE The outer solar system is awash with liquid water. A briny ocean is concealed beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s fourth largest moon, Europa — with more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined. A subsurface sea on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, spews plumes of water vapor into space. And there are […]

3 Burning Questions We All Have About Boeing Starliner’s Epic Debacle

— Nasa/UPI/Shutterstock Boeing’s Starliner, which has been stuck in space since June 6 for what was meant to be an eight day long mission, is at a standstill. The evaluations NASA will undertake over the next few weeks will determine if Starliner returns to Earth with its crew, or if it comes back alone, and […]

Don’t Miss This Rare Chance to See Mars And Jupiter Side-By-Side Early Tomorrow Morning

— NASA via AP The Perseid meteors are a tough act to follow, but Mars and Jupiter are taking the stage for a closing act this week. The two planets will appear side-by-side in the eastern sky in the hours just before dawn on Wednesday morning, in a planetary conjunction that only happens every few […]

For ISS Astronauts, Digestive Issues Are Surprisingly Common — And A Very Big Problem

— NASA/Getty Images News/Getty Images The International Space Station (ISS) will soon retire. As humanity’s farthest outpost approaches its sunset, researchers are raking in data on how astronauts might survive in the next iterations of human spaceflight. Unfortunately, a recent study reveals there’s a long way to go before we’re ready to live long stretches […]

Apple’s Most Ambitious Sci-Fi Show Could Take its Wildest Time Jump Yet

— Apple Although Apple TV+’s hit series asked if we could ever see a Star Trek-esque spinoff show set a hundred years after the main series, Moore didn’t rule it out, saying a future-tense sequel show could happen. “This too, has been discussed, among many other possibilities.” Just what those possibilities are, like For All […]