Baby, She's Back! SpaceX Catches a Starship From Orbit for First Time

SpaceX brought back its Starship rocket's second stage for a first-ever midair capture at its launch pad, capping a record-setting, 22.5-hour orbital flight test.

The First Foreign Astronaut Will Visit China's Tiangong Space Station in Two Weeks

The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) will be taking a Pakistani astronaut to Tiangong as part of the Shenzou 24 mission, marking the first time a foreign astronaut has been to the station.

SpaceX Launches Starship But Passes Up Booster Catch for Safety's Sake

SpaceX sent its Starship on a flight that was meant to feature a first-ever retrieval of both rocket stages, but a launch-pad catch of the first-stage booster had to be canceled due to safety concerns.

LOFAR Takes the Deepest Image of the Low-Frequency Radio Sky to Date

Using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), an international team led by Leiden University has produced the sharpest and most sensitive radio image of the sky ever made at low radio frequencies.

Dense Galaxy Clusters Foster Mechanisms That Throttle Star Formation

The Cosmic Noon was when the Universe's Stelliferous Era Began, and star formation was prodigious during that epoch. But since then, star formation has slowed to a relative crawl, despite the fact that we can watch them forming in regions throughout the Milky Way. What happened to the hydrogen gas that forms stars? New research found clues in a particulary dense galaxy cluster.

Euclid's First Data Release: A Stepping Stone to its 3D Map of the Sky

The ESA's Euclid Space Telescope has released its first huge batch of data. It's all part of the telescope's mission to study dark energy and dark matter. The telescope is busy creating the largest ever 3D map of the Universe with its huge 600 megapixel camera, and new images give us some highlights.

A Brief-ish History of METI. Part III: The Legacy of Frank Drake & Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan and Frank Drake were pivotal to the development of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI), as exemplified by the Pioneer Plaques and Voyager Golden Records.