Satellite News

The skies may be full of invisible “boson stars” that could have a connection to dark matter.

On Episode 145 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik meet the authors of a new book about spaceflight called “Star Bound: A Beginner’s Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard’s Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Between,” Emily Carney and Bruce McCandless III.

Buttes and mesas in Mars’ Chryse Planitia contain clay minerals made from liquid water interacting with the rock nearly 4 billion years ago.

Images captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that “coronal loops” give off subtle flashes of ultraviolet light before a solar flare, which could act as an early warning system for dangerous space weather.

NASA plans to fly two rockets through active auroras and study the unique ribbons of light that dance across the Alaskan night sky.

Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion could soon be better protected against their own exhaust, thanks to new supercomputer simulations.

If parallel universes exist, can we access them? Let’s explore the possibility.

As the shadowy branch of Starfleet Intelligence gets its very own movie, we look back at Section 31’s morally dubious history.