Latest articles by Rahul Rao
Sicily's Mount Etna volcano erupted on Nov. 12, and ESA satellites caught the event in infrared.
The European Space Agency is slated to launch a satellite in 2030 that's meant to probe the nature of dark matter.
NASA wants to figure out how future moon-dwellers can produce, capture and store breathable oxygen from lunar soil.
India's newly launched Aditya-L1 sun-studying mission has already captured its first glimpse of a solar flare in high-energy X-rays.
The Hubble Space Telescope recently snapped an ultraviolet image of the gas giant Jupiter, offering a stunning false-color look at the planet's turbulent atmosphere.
Photos taken from lunar orbit show India's Chandrayaan-3 moon landing produced "ejecta halo," a huge ring-shaped plume of moon dust that the Vikram lander's thrusters left in the lunar soil.
The James Webb Space Telescope strikes again, offering a stunning image of barred spiral galaxy M83.
NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation are putting the finishing touches on the NISAR satellite, which will launch in 2024 to track how Earth's surface changes over time.
The NASA-funded SWIM project aims to detect where there's most likely water ice beneath Martian ground. Here's why.
Images released by the European Southern Observatory may reveal why Betelgeuse dimmed in 2019.
In May 2022, for instance, ground control began receiving gobbledygook from one of Voyager 1's systems.
Martian biosignatures might be lurking in an ancient mud lake on the Red Planet, a new study suggests. But a landing mission is needed to confirm the satellite study.
The observatory's star navigation system and sun protective devices have presented with anomalies.
The Giant Magellan Telescope project just cast its seventh and final primary mirror segment, a huge milestone that keeps the scope on target to begin operations in the late 2020s.
The sun-kissing spacecraft watched as dust particles were displaced across 6 million miles (9.7 million kilometers).
As global warming continues to be exacerbated by human activity, scientists are setting out to map the distribution of Earth's greenhouse gas emissions.
Kombucha cultures riding on the ISS' exterior for 18 months proved resilient to the dangers of outer space.
The builders of star trackers need to test their tools before launching them aboard satellites. And that's where star simulators come in handy.
If this tech demonstration is successful, the system could one day allow astronauts to converse by laser.
An instrument aboard the mission’s Pragyan rover has found traces of sulfur within the lunar south pole’s soil.
Because oxygen takes up valuable weight aboard spacecraft, space mission planners are interested in the idea of creating oxygen right there on Mars with raw Martian materials.
NASA plans on testing an innovative new way to communicate with deep space probes, and step one depends on the success of the Psyche mission.
A new study uses terrestrial and Martian data to investigate how river paths change depending on environmental conditions.
