Space station trajectory data now available Space Station trajectory data is now available to the public! This data, called an…
Switchbacks: Solar jets may hold the key for understanding complete magnetic field reversals NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission has detected…
Best in show The winners of the Best of 2024 are here! Plus, look back on two years of sharing…
A linkless internet In creating anonymous summaries, AI flattens out all the fascinating architecture of thought that makes the internet…
Citizen scientist data help uncover the mysteries of a blue low-latitude aurora Colorful auroras appeared around Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido…
NASA delays crewed lunar landing to 2027 The United States is pushing back its planned return to the moon from…
Dynamic tracking technique can reduce noise in gravitational-wave detectors to peer deeper into the cosmos Researchers have shown that optical…
Fairfax India to acquire additional 10% in BIAL for $255m Fairfax India Holdings has announced an agreement to acquire an…
Autumn Among the Galaxy Clusters The idea of moving stars as a way of concentrating mass for use by an…
Five space mysteries Proba-3 will help solve ESA’s Proba-3 will be the first mission to create an artificial total solar…
New map of the universe uses gravitational waves to reveal hidden black holes and cosmic structure An international study led…
Lunar Outpost Eagle to fly on Starship – blazing a trail for lunar highways Artist rendering of the Lunar Outpost…
New approach uses observed local supervoid to give expansion of the universe an extra push and solve the Hubble tension…
Cosmological model proposes dark matter production during pre-Big Bang inflation As physicists continue their struggle to find and explain the…
How much are asteroids really worth? Popular media love talking about asteroid mining using big numbers. Many articles talk about…
Twister, but make it magnetic A Jovian storm has its roots in a magnetic vortex, life finds a way into…
The underground university During the Cold War, Oxford philosophers worked together to aid dissidents behind the Iron Curtain. I was…
Astronomers investigate the evolution of a supersoft X-ray source Using ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite and NASA’s Chandra spacecraft, German astronomers have…
Investigating how the biggest galaxies in the cosmos grew so quickly before dying Astronomers are closer than ever to working…
Northern lights may be faintly visible across parts of the US this Thanksgiving This Thanksgiving, solar storms may produce faint…
A Look at Dark Energy & Long-Term Survival If life can organize into sentient beings around stars other than our…
Transport phenomena and fundamental physics investigated in the microgravity of the ISS A paper published in Gravitational and Space Research…
Einstein predicted how gravity should work at the largest scales. And he was right, suggests new research When Albert Einstein…
WEAVE spectrograph uncovers dual nature of galaxy shock Using the set of first-light observations from the new William Herschel Telescope…
The dark energy pushing our universe apart may not be what it seems, scientists say Distant, ancient galaxies are giving…
2024 Impact Report In 2024, The Planetary Society championed the importance of space science and exploration through our advocacy and…
Oldest direct evidence of hot water activity on Mars found New Curtin University-led research has uncovered what may be the…
Compassionate time On his final journey through Asia, Thomas Merton found some peace in the dialectic between refusing the world…
Video: Our sun is the star in a new simulation NASA supercomputers are shedding light on what causes some of…
Nanoink and printing technologies could enable electronics repairs, production in space An Iowa State University engineer floats in the air…
Chandra and Hubble tune into ‘flame-throwing’ Guitar Nebula Normally found only in heavy metal bands or certain post-apocalyptic films, a…
New DESI data shed light on gravity’s pull in the universe Gravity has shaped our cosmos. Its attractive influence turned…
Star Harvest: Civilizations in Search of Energy Living a long time forces decisions that could otherwise be ignored. This is…
The new Mars landing approach: How we’ll land large payloads on the Red Planet Back in 2007, I talked with…
Big Bang: Trump and Musk could redefine US space strategy Should NASA return to the moon, or go straight to…
ESA launches the Second Space Resources Challenge Conceptual illustration of lunar regolith extraction and beneficiation operations creating feedstock for an…
A new way to detect daisy worlds The daisy world model describes a hypothetical planet that self-regulates, maintaining a delicate…
Solar wind power likely governs Uranus’ thermosphere temperature Uranus’s upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown…
Ripples and rivers Liquids do all kinds of interesting things on planetary surfaces, from creating rippled impact craters to streaming…
The cochlear question As the hearing parent of a deaf baby, I’m confronted with an agonising decision: should I give…
Northern lights: How the aurora borealis captivated 18th-century minds Since May this year, the aurora borealis (northern lights), has at…
A new mission to Pluto could answer the questions raised by New Horizons Pluto may have been downgraded from full-planet…
Astronomers defy the zone of avoidance to find hundreds of new galaxies There is a region of the sky where…
A formula for life? New model calculates chances of intelligent beings in our universe and beyond The chances of intelligent…
A trash compactor is going to the space station Astronauts on the International Space Station generate their share of garbage,…
Hubble captures barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy…
NASA astronauts won’t say which one of them got sick after almost eight months in space Three NASA astronauts whose…
Powerful new US-Indian satellite will track Earth’s changing surface Data from NISAR will improve our understanding of such phenomena as…
Streaks and highlights It’s been a great year for space exploration. Now you get to pick the highlights. Go to…
Habitability and a Variable Young Sun Given our intense scrutiny of planets around other stars, I find it interesting how…
We need raw awe In this tech-vexed age, our life on screens prevents us from experiencing the mysteries and transformative…
Image: Astronaut captures photo of Earth from the International Space Station Earth’s city lights streak by in this long-exposure photo…
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…
