WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said he is interested in meeting with his Russian counterpart and attending an upcoming Soyuz launch. Asked about cooperation with Roscosmos during a news conference after the Crew-12 launch to the International Space Station on Feb. 13, Isaacman said he plans to attend the next crewed Soyuz launch to
RSLab / University of Trento Astronomers say they’ve spotted a vast cave lurking beneath the surface of Venus — providing the strongest evidence yet that the planet is tunneled with lava tubes. The discovery of the cave, described in a new study published in Nature Communications, adds to our understanding of how Venus was shaped
For fifteen years, it gave nothing away. Every observation returned the same blank signal, a featureless spectrum that resisted every attempt to read its composition. Astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at it, then ground based observatories, then more instruments, and still the planet kept its secrets behind layers of haze so thick that light
Running solo After these astronauts departed on January 15, just a single NASA astronaut, Chris Williams, remained in orbit. He had reached space on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in November, alongside two Russian cosmonauts, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. The space station is a big place, and with much of the facility now more
A solar eclipse will happen on February 17. As the first solar eclipse of 2026, the celestial event has generated significant curiosity. Usually, for solar eclipses, skywatchers are eager to catch it live, gathering at designated viewing spots and donning eclipse glasses. Let’s find out whether this solar eclipse will be visible from India or
Astronomers have captured their clearest view yet of a star collapsing and forming a black hole. The event was discovered in archive data from 2014, captured by a now-defunct NASA asteroid-hunting space telescope. Using the data, astronomers pinpointed a brightening of a source of infrared light in the Andromeda Galaxy. Credit: Farhad Yusef-Zadeh/Northwestern University An
A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African prehistory. The remains come from Thomas Quarry I, and a new analysis pins them to about 773,000 years ago, give or take 4,000 years. That level of precision is rare for fossils this old,
Joe Raedle/Getty Images Although it seems to have flown slightly under the radar when it comes to the broader public interest and rapid-fire news cycles of today, NASA is currently preparing for one of the most ambitious manned space missions of the last few decades. The space
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The traditional understanding is that the center of our galaxy is dominated by a supermassive black hole. The “supermassive” part isn’t a mere superlative; your typical black hole that forms from the explosive death of a star weighs up to dozens of times than the Sun,
NASA launched two rockets from Alaska this week to learn more about the electrical “circuitry” within auroras, the colorful light shows that occur when solar wind collides with Earth’s atmosphere. The missions saw two suborbital sounding rockets launch from the Poker Flat Research Range near Fairbanks, Alaska loaded with scientific equipment that will fly into