Samantha Hill, Author at Astronomy.com

Mars Express captures the beauty of a martian frostscape

Smallest main-belt asteroids ever detected found hiding in JWST data

SpaceX Starlink launch

Robotic Spaceflight

Astronomers urge FCC to research impacts of space junk

The California Nebula

Robotic Spaceflight, Science

NASA releases new infrared images from retired NEOWISE mission

New Starlink satellites could be 32 times brighter in radio waves than before

How Yerkes Observatory started over

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

ESA’s Hera mission is headed to Dimorphos, the asteroid NASA crashed into

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

What to know about the Hera mission to the deflected asteroid Dimorphos

Scientists recreate spiderlike formations on Mars in the lab

An artist's depiction of NEOWISE overlays the first asteroid image the mission took.

Robotic Spaceflight

NASA bids farewell to NEOWISE mission

NASA CHAPEA crew

Human Spaceflight, Space Exploration

NASA crew completes Mars mission on Earth

Jupiter moon Io, imaged by SHARK-VIS on Jan. 10, 2024. The image combines three spectral bands — infrared, red and yellow — to highlight the reddish ring around the volcano Pele (below and to the right of the moon's center) and the white ring around Pillan Patera, to the right of Pele. Credit: INAF/Large Binocular Telescope Observatory/Georgia State University; IRV-band observations by SHARK-VIS/F. Pedichini; processing by D. Hope, S. Jefferies, G. Li Causi.

Science, Solar System

Volcanic moon Io gets close-up look from Earth observatory