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A giant balloon carries NASA’s ASTHROS telescope to the edge of space, revealing how stars shape galaxies and how new worlds begin.

On our visit to Mount Wilson Observatory, we met a celebrity of sorts. The final stop of the tour was the telescope Edwin Hubble used. Hubble, as in the man the Hubble Space Telescope was named after. Standing inside the dome and looking through the same instrument he once worked with made time feel suspended. My mind kept circling the idea that some of humanity’s greatest discoveries about the universe were made right there, in that very room. Hubble’s most famous contributi

CRS-21 delivered some of the most innovative science to the International Space Station, from brain organoids and beating heart cells to microbial mapping and asteroid biomining. Each experiment brings us closer to understanding how life adapts beyond Earth.

60-inch Telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory-September 2025 Sometimes the part of you with the greatest potential is the one that has been waiting the longest to be understood.   If you drive up the winding mountain road through the San Gabriel Mountains above Pasadena, California, you eventually reach the Mount Wilson Observatory. Founded in 1904 by George Ellery Hale and supported by the Carnegie Institution, the site became one of the most influential observatories of th

On September 24, 2025, at 7:30 a.m. EST, NASA successfully launched the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission marks a major step forward in heliophysics, expanding our understanding of the solar system’s boundary and the forces that shape it.

If successful, ADSEP-PIL-11 could lead to better cancer drugs and demonstrate the unique value of the ISS for biotechnology. Just like other space experiments, what we learn in orbit has the potential to benefit people all over the planet.  

Cygnus CRS-2 NG-23 launch heading to the International Space Station with the GULBI experiment in the payload. In space, clean water is...

Explore some of the science in the payload heading to the ISS on the NG-23 launch. Growing the Future of Electronics in Space

A Falcon 9 booster rests at Port Canaveral after multiple launches and recoveries, awaiting refurbishment for its next mission. A...

Sometimes, the biggest ideas come from the simplest acts. Like an astronaut pausing between experiments to paint with the first set of...

Milky Way over the Big Island, Hawai'i Thank you for your interest in this Analog Astronaut Research project. You can view the abstract...

Analog Astronaut looks up at The Milky Way from Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii Disclaimer:  These articles are written by a licensed mental...

Falcon 9 booster from the Crew-11 launch landing at Landing Zone 1 (LZ!) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. When we watch a rocket...

Image of the Sun taken on July 16, 2025 from Central Florida using a Seestar S50 telescope. On the morning of July 16 around 8:30 AM in...

‘Tis the season for globular clusters! With a clear sky last night, I couldn’t resist imaging a few. What started as one target turned...

Perseverance rover successfully launched on July 30, 2020, aboard the Atlas V 541 rocket, initiating its 7-month interplanetary cruise to...

The Whirlpool Galaxy, elegantly captured from Central Florida using a Seestar S50, showcases its stunning spiral structure amidst a...

Trust and vulnerability begin like a night launch—quiet at first, then radiant, rising into uncertainty. Like the Inspiration4 mission...

View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew — astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander; astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot;...