Space – Science News https://www.sciencenews.org INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM SINCE 1921 Mon, 11 May 2026 14:38:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/cropped-favicon.jpg?w=32 Space – Science News https://www.sciencenews.org 32 32 250169482 Astronomers may have found a record-breaking pair of black holes https://www.sciencenews.org/article/largest-pair-black-holes-collision Mon, 11 May 2026 17:30:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3170690 3170690 To understand black holes, physicists turn to a mathematical ‘Rosetta stone’ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/black-holes-hawking-radiation-double-copy Fri, 08 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3170655 3170655 A grapefruit-sized quantum device mapped Earth’s magnetic field from space https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-earth-magnetic-field-space Thu, 07 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3170663 3170663 Going to space? Always, always pack a camera https://www.sciencenews.org/article/space-photography-candice-hansen-koharcheck Thu, 07 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3170504 3170504 Space junk falls back to Earth faster as sunspot numbers climb https://www.sciencenews.org/article/space-debris-altitude-loss-increase Wed, 06 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3170622 3170622 A small object past Pluto may have a thin atmosphere https://www.sciencenews.org/article/atmosphere-small-object-past-pluto Mon, 04 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3170510 93 has a thin atmosphere — a first for any solar system body farther from the sun than Pluto.]]> 3170510 Uranus has weird rings. Astronomers now know the source of two of them https://www.sciencenews.org/article/uranus-rings-origin-mu-moon-mab Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3170218 3170218 The earliest evidence of the first stars may lie in a distant gas clump https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-stars-earliest-evidence-universe Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3170172 3170172 Clouds of water ice thread stellar nurseries in the Milky Way https://www.sciencenews.org/article/water-ice-stellar-nurseries-galaxy Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3170123 3170123 Artemis II ends its historic lunar journey https://www.sciencenews.org/article/artemis-ii-moon-finale Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3169619 3169619 Exploding black holes could explain an antimatter mystery https://www.sciencenews.org/article/exploding-black-holes-antimatter Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3169425 3169425 Even before splashdown, Artemis II is delivering a scientific treasure trove https://www.sciencenews.org/article/splashdown-artemis-ii-science-moon Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:53:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3169533 3169533 The first-ever ‘Earthset’ image marks another Artemis II milestone https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-earthset-moon-artemis-ii-mission Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:53:29 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3169290 3169290 Artemis II: NASA’s Orion heads home after a historic loop around the moon https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nasa-artemis-astronauts-farside-moon-blog Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:17:08 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3169137 3169137 Artemis II sends humans around the moon for first time since Apollo https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nasa-artemis-launch-humans-moon Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:49:46 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3168849 3168849 A comet may have flipped its spin and entered into a death spiral https://www.sciencenews.org/article/comet-41p-reversed-spin-death-spiral Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3168674 3168674 A rare star in a tiny galaxy preserves a record of the early universe https://www.sciencenews.org/article/primitive-star-galaxy-early-universe Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3168401 3168401 NASA races to have the first moon base and nuclear-propulsion spacecraft https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nasa-moon-base-nuclear-propulsion-spacecraft Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:42:52 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3168495 3168495 A private moon lander challenges ideas about lunar volcanism https://www.sciencenews.org/article/moon-blue-ghost-lander-lunar-volcanism Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3168476 3168476 In a rare event, the moon got a massive new crater https://www.sciencenews.org/article/moon-new-crater-nasa-orbiter Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=3168331 3168331