Two of Mount Etna’s most powerful eruptions took dramatically different paths beneath the volcano, revealing that its underground plumbing can change over time, according to a new study. The findings suggest that even a single volcano may erupt through entirely different mechanisms. Although volcanoes often appear unchanged on the surface, the movement of magma deep…
Flight engineer Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) helps flight engineer Chris Williams of NASA as he tries on his spacesuit on June 23, 2026, testing its comfort and mobility as well as its communications and life support systems inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock. Williams will go on a spacewalk on June…
For centuries, parchment manuscripts have preserved far more than the words written on their pages. Researchers have now uncovered a hidden layer of biological information locked inside these historic documents, opening a new avenue for studying the past without compromising the artifacts themselves. Historic parchments have long fascinated historians for the stories recorded in their…
WASHINGTON — As SpaceX and others pursue the development of very large launch vehicles, a new study suggests that there may be such a thing as a rocket that is too large. A report released June 29 by The Aerospace Corp. said that while super heavy lift, or SHL, rockets promise economies of scale, there…
Flight engineer Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) assists flight engineer Chris Williams of NASA as he tries on his spacesuit, testing its comfort and mobility as well as its communications and life support systems inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock. Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA; IR:NASA/JPL/Caltech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Read…
Pegasus XL set to air launch Swift Boost Mission to save NASA space telescope – NASASpaceFlight.com We use cookies to ensure that we…
The subject of today’s article, A402-BCG, is a giant elliptical galaxy, similar to NGC 1316 pictured here. NASA / ESA / The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: P. Goudfrooij (STScI) The core of the brightest galaxy in the cluster Abell 402 contains a curious void. New observations suggest that an ultra-massive black hole could have…
Jeff Seibert, our video editor, recorded the Artemis II launch. Here are his photos and video. We hope you find them as amazing as do we. Jeff had three cameras in the image below. NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission…
America’s 250th Anniversary A Smithsonian magazine special report The document, printed in a gothic typeface, was translated in Philadelphia. One of two surviving copies is going on display in Berlin ahead of America’s 250th birthday Christian Thorsberg | Daily Correspondent June 29, 2026 6:19 p.m. A first printing of the Declaration of Independence of the…
The headwaters of the Fermi Paradox channel directly through Michael Hart and Frank Tipler, and it’s a testament to the power of their arguments that this remains true today. It was Hart who in “An Explanation for the Absence of Extraterrestrials on Earth” (published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1975)…