Catch a rare lunar occultation of Jupiter plus Saturn at opposition in early October It’s a busy skywatching month ahead….
Alien life? Why the possibility of exoplanet LHS 1140b emitting helium gas is so exciting This summer, exoplanet science—the study…
Hydrogen’s distant glow opens new way to investigate dark energy The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) has shown for…
Astronomers discover a radio galaxy with evidence of four separate jet outbursts Astronomers have identified what may be the first…
Black hole jets reach far beyond galaxies’ visible edges, potentially deciding their fate Galaxies are enormous and hold hundreds of…
Bridging the silicon gap for autonomous lunar manufacturing Systemic flowchart depicting a lunar machine ecology. The diagram illustrates the thermodynamic…
An overlooked era of cosmology is stealing the show in the quest to understand the cosmos Could you imagine if…
Amoebas and anniversaries A new crater on the Moon, super-hot amoebas, and Hubble marks an orbital milestone as well as…
Reasoning together Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his…
US-India satellite captures time-lapse video of volcanic eruption Like tendrils on a vine, lava spreads out from the northern crater…
NASA to study human health and performance during Crew-13 mission During NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission aboard the International Space Station,…
Sakurai’s Object: A Stellar Rebirth Given how long stars live in comparison to human lifetimes, I always do a double-take…
Roman Space Telescope Launches Tomorrow We’ll have a lot to talk about when observations from the Nancy Grace Roman Space…
When Should an Airport Stop for Lightning? Xweather Protect combines real-time lightning detection, lightning forecasts, configurable alert zones and automated…
Astrophysicists use wave simulations to open a new window on dark matter Astrophysicists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU),…
Is a nearby advanced alien civilization out there waiting to pounce on Earth? Unlikely, says new study Science fiction suggests…
Jupiter uses a surprisingly complex system to fend off particles from the sun A University of Iowa-led research team has…
Venus ate its moon: How Earth’s ‘twin’ could have swallowed a rocky satellite Scientists have long speculated why Venus, with…
Scientists simulate cosmic crashes to test whether icy moons gain or lose their ability to sustain life Many of the…
Hubble spots an out-of-sync galaxy Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems…
Newborns and old-timers While Roman doubles its lifetime and Artemis astronauts retire, a new discovery may be the youngest exoplanet…
Cosmic amnesia A black hole rings like a struck bell, then settles into silence, forgetting almost everything about its history….
New krypton-88 data narrow a key gap in stellar strontium models An international research team has reported the first experimental…
NASA spacecraft discovers a huge new crater on the moon Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon that’s bigger…
Snow, monsoons and oceans shift Earth’s center of mass each year, satellite tracking shows Seasonal changes redistribute enough water around…
Disrupted Systems: Implications for Life Anthropocentric thinking is a persistent problem when we’re talking about extraterrestrial civilizations. Some of our…
Webb reveals dynamic panorama of star formation, including smallest known brown dwarfs This starry view of the nearby star-forming region…
Dense galaxies are carving out a bubble in the early universe When JWST’s first science results started rolling in, it…
Why optimising hydraulics is key for aviation fleets with varying requirements Tightening aviation margins make optimising resources and investing in…
JWST ruled out finding tiny moons around an exoplanet—that’s great news The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened many…
Japan’s Hayabusa2 achieves first-ever laser ranging experiment with an asteroid The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft reached another…
How big can the universe’s first starbursts get? As our telescopes have improved and we’ve been able to peer farther…
The next generation A new shape on Saturn, new Artemis spacesuits, and a new look at Star Trek. Go to…
Penchants of the polymaths The fathers of Islamic science hold lessons for students: breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints…
Ancient Swedish Goths had surprisingly accurate calendars On a mostly flat plain an hour north of Stockholm lies a collection…
Scientists want to 3D print houses on Mars with the help of yeast Mars is a terrible place to build…
Tiny salt crevices could act as miniature ‘Greenhouses’ for Martian microbes We’ve been searching for life on Mars for a…
Pandora: Tuning Up our Data on Exoplanet Atmospheres Launching a flagship-class mission like the Roman Space Telescope is always exciting,…
Some black holes grow much faster than their galaxies Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole. The few that…
Early Earth’s auroral belts may have formed a natural ion-beam reactor for prebiotic chemistry We usually think of auroras as…
‘Quiet’ pulsar suddenly reveals three glitches in 15 years of observations Using more than 15 years of observations from the…
FAST finds two mysterious hydrogen clouds with no visible stars Astronomers have found two clouds of hydrogen near the Whirlpool…
How Mercury formed its graphite crust and core As the BepiColombo mission prepares to enter the final phase of its…
Who knew there were so many more moons? Roman is on its way to make discoveries, including more Solar System…
Upend the trickle-down Neoliberal policies have hollowed out democracies and spawned unchecked oligarchs. Grasping their structure points to a fix…
Hot subdwarfs come into focus as AI scans thousands of stars in Gaia data There are myriad ways of “being…
Hubble tracks new decagon encircling Saturn’s south pole Recent observations with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a giant, evolving,…
Cluster’s final reentry strengthens data for safer, more sustainable satellite design The Cluster mission danced its final dance as Tango…
Fermi Explorer: Building the First Mission to Another Star? The question of when to launch an interstellar mission has occupied…
Many space missions are searching for life beyond Earth, but are we prepared for the fallout if they succeed? Microbes…
