Monthly Archives: December 2025
Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star

Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star Using the Einstein Probe (EP), astronomers have detected a new X-ray…

Wind-battered Lick Observatory rushes to shield historic telescope after dome damage

Wind-battered Lick Observatory rushes to shield historic telescope after dome damage Winds exceeding 110 mph that tore across the top…

LIVE: General Assembly decides on 2026 UN budget

LIVE: General Assembly decides on 2026 UN budget Follow our live coverage as the General Assembly and its Fifth Committee…

NASA’s Chandra rings in the new year with the Champagne Cluster

NASA’s Chandra rings in the new year with the Champagne Cluster Celebrate the New Year with the “Champagne Cluster,” a…

Venus cloud research highlights value of combining light and polarization measurements

Venus cloud research highlights value of combining light and polarization measurements A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical…

ALMA datasets elucidate nearby galaxy NGC 1266’s massive molecular outflow

ALMA datasets elucidate nearby galaxy NGC 1266’s massive molecular outflow By analyzing the archival data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…

Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds

Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from…

Gemini and Blanco telescopes unlock clues to origin of longest gamma-ray burst ever observed

Gemini and Blanco telescopes unlock clues to origin of longest gamma-ray burst ever observed Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the…

Ending 2025 with a bang

Ending 2025 with a bang We’re finishing the year strong, thanks to amazing space images, fantastic discoveries, and phenomenal support…

Supernova from the dawn of the universe captured by James Webb Space Telescope

Supernova from the dawn of the universe captured by James Webb Space Telescope An international team of astronomers has achieved…

Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is an attractive target in the search for life—new research

Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is an attractive target in the search for life—new research A small, icy moon of Saturn…

India space agency launches its heaviest satellite

India space agency launches its heaviest satellite India’s space agency launched its heaviest ever payload on Wednesday, with Prime Minister…

Security Council remains divided over Iran nuclear programme, sanctions stay in place

Security Council remains divided over Iran nuclear programme, sanctions stay in place At a meeting to discuss nuclear non-proliferation on…

Meet NASA’s Artemis Closeout Crew, tasked with securing astronauts in their spacecraft

Meet NASA’s Artemis Closeout Crew, tasked with securing astronauts in their spacecraft For most, getting into a car is a…

A dance of galaxies: JWST captures interacting dwarf galaxies

A dance of galaxies: JWST captures interacting dwarf galaxies NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured two nearby dwarf galaxies interacting…

Voices of Russia

Voices of Russia In rare interviews, Russians speak candidly about their lives in the presence of war – animated to…

Cosmic rays from a nearby supernova may help explain Earth-like planets

Cosmic rays from a nearby supernova may help explain Earth-like planets How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When…

Precessing magnetic jet engine model reveals power source of rare ‘heartbeat’ gamma-ray burst

Precessing magnetic jet engine model reveals power source of rare ‘heartbeat’ gamma-ray burst Prof. An Tao from the Shanghai Astronomical…

Building a Library of Science Fiction Film Criticism

Building a Library of Science Fiction Film Criticism Back in the days when VCR tapes were how we watched movies…

Webb captures dwarf stars in a glittering sky

Webb captures dwarf stars in a glittering sky The final ESA/Webb Picture of the Month feature for 2025 showcases a…

Pictures, pixels, and picks

Pictures, pixels, and picks Great pictures of a planet and a comet, and great picks from a year of our…

Joby Aviation and Metropolis to establish 25 vertiports in US

Joby Aviation and Metropolis to establish 25 vertiports in US Joby Aviation and Metropolis Technologies have announced plans to jointly…

Philosopher of pride

Philosopher of pride For Mandeville, humankind has a bottomless need to be liked: it is this perennial craving that forms…

Life on lava: How microbes colonize new habitats

Life on lava: How microbes colonize new habitats Life has a way of bouncing back, even after catastrophic events like…

Catch the Ursid meteor shower as it peaks just before Christmas

Catch the Ursid meteor shower as it peaks just before Christmas The last major meteor shower of the year, known…

The first alien civilization we encounter will be extremely loud

The first alien civilization we encounter will be extremely loud For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to…

New Uses for the Eschaton

New Uses for the Eschaton One way to examine problems with huge unknowns – SETI is a classic example –…

Wisk concludes initial flight of Generation 6 autonomous eVTOL

Wisk concludes initial flight of Generation 6 autonomous eVTOL Wisk Aero has conducted the first flight of its Generation 6…

UN deal delivers a smoother ride for global trade

UN deal delivers a smoother ride for global trade Moving goods around the world could soon become cheaper, faster and…

Exploring the origins of the universe: 145 low-noise amplifiers complete ALMA telescopes

Exploring the origins of the universe: 145 low-noise amplifiers complete ALMA telescopes The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the…

Forget stardust—it was star ice all along

Forget stardust—it was star ice all along Carl Sagan famously said that “We’re all made of star stuff.” But he…

A new five-year survey of the Magellanic Clouds will answer some questions about our neighbors

A new five-year survey of the Magellanic Clouds will answer some questions about our neighbors The Large and Small Magellanic…

Why SpaceX IPO plan is generating so much buzz

Why SpaceX IPO plan is generating so much buzz More than 20 years after founding SpaceX, the record-breaking company that…

Comet 3I/ATLAS displays greenish hue in new Gemini North telescope images

Comet 3I/ATLAS displays greenish hue in new Gemini North telescope images Gemini North captured new images of Comet 3I/ATLAS after…

Mostly monochromatic

Mostly monochromatic Black-and-white space images and the science that goes with them. Go to Source Author: The latest stories from…

Undefinable yet indispensable

Undefinable yet indispensable Despite centuries of trying, the term ‘religion’ has proven impossible to define. Then why does it remain…

Parker Solar Probe spies solar wind ‘U-turn’

Parker Solar Probe spies solar wind ‘U-turn’ Images captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking…

Reading the ‘light fingerprints’ of dead satellites

Reading the ‘light fingerprints’ of dead satellites There are already tens of thousands of pieces of large debris in orbit,…

The JWST just identified a supernova from only 730 million years after the Big Bang

The JWST just identified a supernova from only 730 million years after the Big Bang Supernovae aren’t one of the…

TCS becomes certified partner in Airbus’ aviation data initiative

TCS becomes certified partner in Airbus’ aviation data initiative TCS has joined the Skywise Partner Programme by Airbus, certifying companies…

UN strongly condemns Israel’s unauthorised entry of UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem

UN strongly condemns Israel’s unauthorised entry of UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem The UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA,…

K-DRIFT pathfinder: A compact telescope for observing faint galactic structures

K-DRIFT pathfinder: A compact telescope for observing faint galactic structures Conventional telescopes are limited in detecting low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, which…

Catching Up with TRAPPIST-1

Catching Up with TRAPPIST-1 Let’s have a look at recent work on TRAPPIST-1. The system, tiny but rich in planets…

NASA robot rover shows that sparks fly in dust storms on Mars

NASA robot rover shows that sparks fly in dust storms on Mars Sometimes you get a small electric shock from…

An adolescent growth spurt in young stars helps giant planets form

An adolescent growth spurt in young stars helps giant planets form Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular…

Long ago, Mars had massive watersheds—now finally mapped

Long ago, Mars had massive watersheds—now finally mapped What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the red…

Close-up images show how stars explode in real time

Close-up images show how stars explode in real time Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days…

Festive light displays

Festive light displays If you enjoy the lights people string on their houses at this time of year, you’ll love…

Medieval moons

Medieval moons Some saw the Moon as representing creation, yearning for the Divine, some saw the Moon as almost Divine…

Space debris: Will it take a catastrophe for nations to take the issue seriously?

Space debris: Will it take a catastrophe for nations to take the issue seriously? China routinely sends astronauts to and…

Space debris: Will it take a catastrophe for nations to take the issue seriously?

Space debris: Will it take a catastrophe for nations to take the issue seriously? China routinely sends astronauts to and…

Astronomers find vast spinning filament of galaxies 140 million light-years away

Astronomers find vast spinning filament of galaxies 140 million light-years away An international team led by the University of Oxford…

Copenhagen Airports deploys Event Orchestration platform for real-time operations

Copenhagen Airports deploys Event Orchestration platform for real-time operations Copenhagen Airports has begun implementing Smarter Airports’ Event Orchestration capability within…

UN chief warns unpaid dues near $1.6 billion, as budget cuts deepen

UN chief warns unpaid dues near $1.6 billion, as budget cuts deepen With nearly $1.6 billion in unpaid dues, the…

Sugars, ‘gum,’ stardust found in NASA’s asteroid Bennu samples

Sugars, ‘gum,’ stardust found in NASA’s asteroid Bennu samples The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest…

Video: HydroGNSS launch highlights

Video: HydroGNSS launch highlights ESA’s first Scout mission, HydroGNSS, was launched on 28 November 2025, marking a significant step in…

TESSARAE for orbital biolabs and more

TESSARAE for orbital biolabs and more Conceptual illustration of an orbital biolab constructed using TESSERAE architecture. Credit: Aurelia Institute At…

The Rest is Silence: Empirically Equivalent Hypotheses about the Universe

The Rest is Silence: Empirically Equivalent Hypotheses about the Universe Because we so often talk about finding an Earth 2.0,…

What seven decades of hunting for aliens tells us

What seven decades of hunting for aliens tells us Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with…

Spaceperium
Translate »