Image: Astronaut captures photo of Earth from the International Space Station Earth’s city lights streak by in this long-exposure photo…
Examining how stellar threats impact the habitable zone of exoplanets When we think of exoplanets that may be able to…
How many additional exoplanets are in known systems? One thing we’ve learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly…
Vega’s Puzzling Disk Over the weekend I learned about Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 47, unusual in that it offers up…
Webb confirms a longstanding galaxy model Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the ability to look backward in time….
Ethos Space has ambitious plans for the Moon and beyond Conceptual illustration of a SpaceX Starship on a lunar landing…
Chinese space station crew returns after six months in orbit A three-person Chinese crew returned to Earth early Monday after…
Learning more about supernovae through stardust Most of the diverse elements in the universe come from supernovae. We are, quite…
Black hole study challenges Kerr solution assumptions Black holes continue to captivate scientists: they are purely gravitational objects, remarkably simple,…
Journeys worth making Perseverance faces a hard climb, but New Horizons proves it’s worth going the distance. Go to Source…
The city of wisdom Don’t be intimidated by physics: it is made of stories and metaphors. Learn these and the…
Astronomers predict the orbits of potentially hazardous comets from meteor showers Comets have long been seen as omens and portents,…
SpaceX sets its own record with company’s 69th Space Coast launch of the year SpaceX may have contributed to an…
As Musk seeks to launch tens of thousands of Starlink satellites, space researchers urge caution Over 100 space researchers signed…
Innovative model offers new way for astronomers to analyze powerful space explosions Astrophysical explosions are, to give a few examples,…
Do You Really Want to Live Forever? Supposing you wanted to live forever and found yourself in 2024, would you…
Astronomers map ‘danger zones’ for planet-forming disks in star cluster Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that…
NASA astronaut hospitalized after return from ISS A NASA astronaut who just returned from the International Space Station has been…
Boeing exploring sale of space business: report Boeing is exploring a possible sale of its space business as its new…
Ion engines could take us to the solar gravitational lens in less than 13 years, suggests paper Sending an object…
Grand designs From logos to policy to mission architectures, if you want to achieve something in space, you’ve got to…
Rage against the machine For all the promise and dangers of AI, computers plainly can’t think. To think is to…
Discovery of carbon-storing molecules in a distant interstellar cloud may shed light on how our own solar system formed A…
Chinese company to sell tickets for space tourism flights in 2027 A Chinese company will launch sales on Thursday of…
Weather clears for SpaceX Crew-8 to head home to Florida The four members of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission climbed on…
Streams of Stars and What They Tell Us A quick follow-up to yesterday’s post. The idea of a stream of…
NOAA releases imagery from world’s first operational space-based coronagraph NOAA today shared the first images from the Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1),…
Betelgeuse Betelgeuse? Bright star Betelgeuse likely has a ‘Betelbuddy’ stellar companion One of the brightest stars in the night sky,…
Hubble captures a new view of galaxy M90 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the striking spiral galaxy Messier…
Biosphere X, Y and Z: The future of farming in space – guest post by Marshall Martin Artist’s depiction of…
New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from a single source The sight of a fireball streaking…
Solar maximum = maximum awe With the Sun at the peak of its activity cycle, we Earthlings get treated to…
Physicists show that neutron stars may be shrouded in clouds of axions A team of physicists from the universities of…
The spectre of insecurity Liberals have forgotten that in order for our lives not to be nasty, brutish and short,…
A near-Earth microquasar emerges as a source of powerful radiation Modern astronomy has clung to the belief that the relativistic…
A new generation of telescopes will probe the ‘unknown unknowns’ that could transform our knowledge of the universe In recent…
Space Force’s X-37B will perform ‘never before-seen maneuvers’ in orbit The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) has been shrouded in…
A Gravitational Wave Surprise I think gravitational wave astronomy is one of the most exciting breakthroughs we’re tracking on Centauri…
Sun reaches maximum phase in 11-year solar cycle In a teleconference with reporters on Tuesday, representatives from NASA, the National…
Asteroid-sample return mission enables researchers to conduct largest geophysical observation campaign of its kind The OSIRIS-REx project made history last…
In a first, Starship megarocket booster caught by SpaceX’s ‘chopsticks’ SpaceX successfully “caught” the first-stage booster of its Starship megarocket…
‘Killer electrons’: Lightning storms play cosmic pinball with space weather When lightning strikes, the electrons come pouring down. In a…
What’s behind the northern lights that dazzled the sky farther south than normal Another in a series of unusually strong…
Twinsies! Asteroids that come in pairs, matching volcanic features on Mars and Earth, and the potential space policies of two…
The joy of clutter The world sees Japan as a paragon of minimalism. But its hidden clutter culture shows that…
Astronomers find Webb data conflict with reionization models Reionization is a critical period when the first stars and galaxies changed…
Asteroid mining: A potential trillion-dollar industry Earth’s newest celestial neighbor has finally arrived. Astronomers using a powerful telescope in Sutherland,…
Scientists long urged NASA to search for signs of life near Jupiter; now it’s happening In 2015, Bill Nye was…
Planetary Defense: Good News from the Taurids Evidently discovered by French astronomer Pierre Méchain in 1786, Comet Encke was the…
Hera probe heads off to see aftermath of DART’s asteroid impact The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is on its…
Curiosity rover provides new insights into how Mars became uninhabitable NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is…
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will investigate whether an icy moon of Jupiter can support alien life Discovering extraterrestrial life would…
Nuclear rockets could travel to Mars in half the time, but designing the reactors that would power them isn’t easy…
The sun unleashes its strongest flare this cycle Yesterday the sun released a huge solar flare, and it’s heading toward…
Glitter and glow This week we look forward to launches, gaze at glowing auroras, and get creative with glitter. Go…
An undulating thrill Once lauded as a wonder of the age, cocaine soon became the object of profound anxieties. What…
X-rays advance understanding of Earth’s core-mantle boundary and super-Earth magma oceans Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator…
NASA’s laser comms demo makes deep space record, completes first phase The Deep Space Optical Communications tech demo has completed…
Investigating the statistical likelihood of triple star systems hosting exoplanets Why is it important to search for exoplanets in triple…
Webb researchers discover lensed supernova, confirm Hubble tension Measuring the Hubble constant, the rate at which the universe is expanding,…
Third Time’s a Charm: A Planet at Barnard’s Star If you follow the fortunes of the stars closest to us,…
Hubble captures stellar nurseries in majestic spiral galaxy IC 1954 This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the…
Earth will have a temporary ‘mini moon’ for two months Earth’s moon will soon have some company—a “mini moon.” Go…
SpaceX launches rescue mission to return stranded astronauts A SpaceX rocket soared into the sky Saturday with two passengers on…
Ryugu samples call into question previous ideas about the formation of carbon-rich asteroids Asteroid Ryugu possibly did not travel as…
Cloudy skies, smooth sailing A Martian cloud atlas, LightSail wins big, and multiple missions coast toward launch. Go to Source…
Main character syndrome Why romanticising your own life is philosophically dubious, setting up toxic narratives and an inability to truly…
First lunar farside samples from Chang’e-6 mission analyzed A team of Chinese scientists has studied the first lunar farside samples…
NASA’s Artemis science instrument gets tested in moon-like sandbox On Sept. 9 and 10, scientists and engineers tested NASA’s LEMS…
Frozen in time: Rock fossils hint at Mars’s ancient climate Long ago, flowing wind and water shaped Mars’s malleable sand…
Habitability around F-class Stars Some years back I read a science fiction story in which the planet where the action…
An ice-mining lunar rover powered by Americium-241 Conceptual illustration of the ice-mining lunar rover showing its main components including a…
What happens to the climate when Earth passes through interstellar clouds? Noctilucent clouds were once thought to be a fairly…
Potential indicators of life on other planets can be created in a lab One way to understand the potential for…
Hubble lights the way with new multiwavelength view of galaxy NGC 1559 The magnificent galaxy featured in this NASA/ESA Hubble…
Exoplanets could be hiding their atmospheres Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered orbit red dwarf stars. This isn’t because red…
Citizen science collaboration yields precise data on exoplanet WASP-77 A b A planet swings in front of its star, dimming…
Spacecraft, what do your robot eyes see? Cameras on spacecraft are our eyes into the Cosmos. Sometimes they teach us…
The forging of countries Two distinct and conflicting forms of nationalism – civic and ethnic – helped create the nation-states…
Astronomers just detected the biggest black hole jets ever seen—and named them Porphyrion The largest known black hole jets, 23…
Artemis I mission data show astronauts sent to the moon aboard Orion will be protected from radiation According to a…
New cosmic distance catalog could unlock the mysteries of universe formation A new catalog providing information on millions of distant…
Beamed Propulsion and Planetary Security Power beaming to accelerate a ‘lightsail’ has been pondered since the days when Robert Forward…
Astronomers discover new feature in exoplanet distribution that’s between the Neptunian Desert and Savanna Astronomers have uncovered the “Neptunian Ridge,”…
New video shows how tiny spacecraft will ‘swarm’ Proxima Centauri Earlier this year, NASA selected a rather interesting proposal for…
Cosmology is at a tipping point—we may be on the verge of discovering new physics For the past few years,…
Boeing ‘ran out of time’ on Starliner: astronaut stuck on ISS A US astronaut stuck on the International Space Station…
Stuck-in-space astronauts make first public comments since Boeing capsule left without them Stuck-in-space astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said…
Someone’s aliens Life thrives on Earth, and we even send evidence of our presence out into the Solar System. Is…
The risk of beauty W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we…
Combination and summary of ATLAS dark matter searches within 2HDM+a framework In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed that…
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