Space Photos of the Week June 22, 2018

NASA took advantage of the recent close approach of the Psyche probe to Mars to calibrate its observation instruments.

On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.

There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s finally evidence for where those came from.

Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.

This is the first time NASA has encountered a situation like this, and it took nearly a week to resolve.

The detonation of the New Glenn rocket resulted in a huge fireball in Florida and may have long-term implications for the company's ambitions.

It’s long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case.

The USDA this week confirmed the first known infection of the carnivorous fly larva, which feast on the flesh of living mammals, after the United States eradicated the nightmare bugs in the 1960s.

Releasing sterilized flies can crash a local population of flesh-eating screwworms. But the US currently has limited capacity to produce them.

To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.

The project’s first mission could arrive as soon as this year, with a little help from Blue Origin.

States across the US are looking to take major sources of pollution and use them to generate much-needed power.