Monthly Archives: April 2025
Ancient metabolic process recreated: Iron and sulfur reactions in simulated black smokers shed light on early life

Ancient metabolic process recreated: Iron and sulfur reactions in simulated black smokers shed light on early life The very first…

ZT1 Technology, Liberty Aerospace partner to develop all-electric Liberty XL-2 aircraft

ZT1 Technology, Liberty Aerospace partner to develop all-electric Liberty XL-2 aircraft ZT1 and Liberty Aerospace have signed MoU aimed at…

UNOPS: the UN agency turning commitments into reality

UNOPS: the UN agency turning commitments into reality Nations around the world which are seeking practical solutions to peace and…

Juno mission gets under Jupiter’s and Io’s surface

Juno mission gets under Jupiter’s and Io’s surface New data from the agency’s Jovian orbiter sheds light on the fierce…

Charting the Interstellar Medium

Charting the Interstellar Medium We don’t talk about the interstellar medium as much as we ought to. After all, if…

Quality of 3D printing with lunar regolith varies based on feedstock

Quality of 3D printing with lunar regolith varies based on feedstock Lately, there’s been plenty of progress in 3D printing…

Webb helps scientists better understand solar system’s origins

Webb helps scientists better understand solar system’s origins University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights…

Circinus West: A dark nebula harboring a nest of newly formed stars

Circinus West: A dark nebula harboring a nest of newly formed stars A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West…

Multi-spacecraft radio observations trace the heliospheric magnetic field

Multi-spacecraft radio observations trace the heliospheric magnetic field Solar flares accelerate energetic electrons that escape into interplanetary space, guided by…

When we seek, we find

When we seek, we find When we explore space, we make discoveries — about never-before-seen asteroids, unusual exoplanets, and even…

Just a pale blue dot

Just a pale blue dot When we see the Earth as ‘a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam’ what…

Super-Earths are common outside the solar system, new study shows

Super-Earths are common outside the solar system, new study shows An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics…

NASA’s Roman mission shares detailed plans to scour skies

NASA’s Roman mission shares detailed plans to scour skies NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared Thursday the designs…

The sun’s natural gravitational lensing is more powerful than you thought

The sun’s natural gravitational lensing is more powerful than you thought Let’s turn the sun into a telescope. In fact,…

Boeing to sell parts of Digital Aviation Solutions for $10.55bn

Boeing to sell parts of Digital Aviation Solutions for $10.55bn Boeing has reached a definitive agreement to sell parts of…

UN chief hails Pope Francis as ‘a transcendent voice for peace’

UN chief hails Pope Francis as ‘a transcendent voice for peace’ UN Secretary-General António Guterres has joined the world in…

Planetary alignment provides NASA rare opportunity to study Uranus

Planetary alignment provides NASA rare opportunity to study Uranus When a planet’s orbit brings it between Earth and a distant…

TOI-270 d: The Clearest Look Yet at a Sub-Neptune Atmosphere

TOI-270 d: The Clearest Look Yet at a Sub-Neptune Atmosphere Sub-Neptune planets are going to be occupying scientists for a…

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has beamed…

Design considerations for rotating space settlements

Design considerations for rotating space settlements Illustration of a cylindrical rotating space settlement in Low Earth Orbit. Credits: Grok 3…

NASA’s oldest active astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday

NASA’s oldest active astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday Cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how…

Study unveils volcanic history and clues to ancient life on Mars

Study unveils volcanic history and clues to ancient life on Mars In a study co-authored by a Texas A&M University…

A possible sign of life on K2-18b? Here’s what it means — and why it’s just the beginning

A possible sign of life on K2-18b? Here’s what it means — and why it’s just the beginning If dimethyl-sulfide…

NASA’s Glenn to test lunar air quality monitors aboard space station

NASA’s Glenn to test lunar air quality monitors aboard space station As NASA prepares to return to the moon, studying…

Have they been here?

Have they been here? When we look for extraterrestrials, we often peer into the depths of space. But alien life…

ELVIS to enter orbit: Pioneering imaging system to enhance space biology and life detection beyond Earth

ELVIS to enter orbit: Pioneering imaging system to enhance space biology and life detection beyond Earth Onboard the International Space…

It’s time to build a space telescope interferometer—this could be the first step

It’s time to build a space telescope interferometer—this could be the first step The dream of finding life on an…

Why some meteor showers are so unpredictable

Why some meteor showers are so unpredictable Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth’s…

Lufthansa, Munich Airport partner to drive innovation in aviation

Lufthansa, Munich Airport partner to drive innovation in aviation Lufthansa and Munich Airport Terminal 2 have formalised a partnership through…

Scientists find evidence that challenges theories of the origin of water on Earth

Scientists find evidence that challenges theories of the origin of water on Earth A team of researchers at the University…

Guterres prioritises UN reform to ensure taxpayers’ money reaches those in need

Guterres prioritises UN reform to ensure taxpayers’ money reaches those in need The United Nations is prioritising reform to ensure…

New Explanations for the Enigmatic Wow! Signal

New Explanations for the Enigmatic Wow! Signal The Wow! signal, a one-off detection at the Ohio State ‘Big Ear’ observatory…

A slowly spinning universe could solve the Hubble tension

A slowly spinning universe could solve the Hubble tension A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society…

Massive black hole ‘waking up’ in Virgo constellation

Massive black hole ‘waking up’ in Virgo constellation A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the…

Soil from the moon’s far side suggests drier conditions than the side facing Earth

Soil from the moon’s far side suggests drier conditions than the side facing Earth Soil and rocks returned from the…

High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space

High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space Through his research at Caltech, a…

Small but mighty

Small but mighty Comets, moons, tiny twisters, and blueberries — they may be small, but they’re far from insignificant. Go…

On unstable ground

On unstable ground A ‘great reshuffle’ of the land is underway. It will force us to reconsider traditional ideas of…

Q&A: How to (theoretically) spot an alien

Q&A: How to (theoretically) spot an alien Are we alone in the universe? The answer to one of humanity’s biggest…

NASA’s Juno back to normal operations after entering safe mode

NASA’s Juno back to normal operations after entering safe mode Data received from NASA’s Juno mission indicates the solar-powered spacecraft…

Advanced visual localization and topographic mapping enhance Zhurong rover’s Mars exploration

Advanced visual localization and topographic mapping enhance Zhurong rover’s Mars exploration A collaborative research team has improved visual localization and…

Rohde & Schwarz announce walkthrough ECAC approval

Rohde & Schwarz announce walkthrough ECAC approval Passengers do not have to remove jackets before passing through the scanner, meaning…

UN rolls out key initiative to combat antisemitism

UN rolls out key initiative to combat antisemitism Amid rising concerns over antisemitism worldwide, the UN on Friday announced the…

A year after the solar eclipse, Dallas area scientists are still uncovering cosmic clues

A year after the solar eclipse, Dallas area scientists are still uncovering cosmic clues For some Dallas-area scientists, the total…

On ‘Sun-like’ Stars

On ‘Sun-like’ Stars The thought of a planet orbiting a Sun-like star began to obsess me as a boy, when…

Want to know how to survive in space? Ask a tardigrade

Want to know how to survive in space? Ask a tardigrade The 2025 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, which took…

Blue Origin plans an all-female space flight—but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional

Blue Origin plans an all-female space flight—but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional For the first time since…

Image: A chance alignment in Lupus

Image: A chance alignment in Lupus The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is the…

Four space tourists return to Earth after a private flight over the poles

Four space tourists return to Earth after a private flight over the poles Four space tourists who orbited the north…

Art school for scientists

Art school for scientists From long-exposure photography to color gradients, scientists and artists can sometimes draw from the same toolbox….

What actors know

What actors know Acting is an ancient and intrinsically human way to establish vibrant connections with one another. And it’s…

Perseverance rover witnesses one Martian dust devil eating another

Perseverance rover witnesses one Martian dust devil eating another The six-wheeled explorer recently captured several red planet mini-twisters spinning on…

Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon

Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth…

Ultralight dark matter could explain early black hole formation

Ultralight dark matter could explain early black hole formation A black hole is a region of space where gravity is…

ITA will be the 5th Lufthansa Group airline to join Star Alliance

ITA will be the 5th Lufthansa Group airline to join Star Alliance ITA will become a member of the Star…

Pact for the Future: Countries urged to translate pledges into action

Pact for the Future: Countries urged to translate pledges into action UN Member States met on Wednesday for the first…

KiDS dataset doesn’t shake up cold dark matter model after all, say researchers

KiDS dataset doesn’t shake up cold dark matter model after all, say researchers Data from 41 million galaxies does not…

A Multiwavelength Look at Proxima Centauri’s Flares

A Multiwavelength Look at Proxima Centauri’s Flares The problem of flares in red dwarf planetary systems is stark. With their…

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