Society needs hope Youths around the world are in a profound crisis of despair. Adults must help them to believe…
Vintage NASA: See Voyager’s 1990 ‘Solar System Family Portrait’ debut This week marks 48 years since the Sept. 5, 1977,…
Ireland’s first satellite EIRSAT-1 completes its mission Ireland’s first satellite, EIRSAT-1, has completed its mission orbiting Earth. The CubeSat, which…
Ancient Life on Ceres? We keep going through revolutions in the way science fiction writers handle asteroids. Discovered in 1801,…
Webb reveals warm space dust in far-off Makani galaxy’s circumgalactic medium In a distant galaxy called Makani, particles of dust…
Magnetic fields in infant universe may have been billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet The magnetic fields that…
US DOT allocates funding to enhance rural airports in Oregon The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has allocated $17.1m in…
A sharper image of the early universe: Program brings greater understanding to star and galaxy formation What was the universe…
Ntaria Scenes from Aboriginal Australian pottery, brought to animated life, capture the turn of the seasons in central Australia –…
Is there life on Saturn’s moon? Where there’s water, there’s a chance At first glance, Saturn’s moon Enceladus seems rather…
Webb captures dusty wisps round a planet-forming disk For this new Picture of the Month feature, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb…
Astronomers discover one of the most massive binary stars in the galaxy A research team has used both archival Hubble…
Are you ready for your close-up? Close-ups of the Sun’s coronal loops and a tiny piece of Bennu can teach…
Earth-size stars and alien oceans: An astronomer explains the case for life around white dwarfs The sun will someday die….
Strap in: NASA aeroshell material takes extended space trip Components of a NASA technology that could one day help crew…
GJ 1132 b doesn’t have an atmosphere, according to new JWST data Astronomers sometimes find conflicting data when trying to…
SpaceX looks to launch Starship on Tuesday night after two days of scrubs SpaceX has lined up its massive Starship…
Halifax airport introduces robots to enhance passenger navigation and support Halifax International Airport Authority (HIAA), in collaboration with Maritime Robotics…
How the Apollo missions unlocked the origins of the moon You know, if you think about it, and trust me…
Astronomers have glimpsed the core of a dying star—confirming theories of how atoms are made Astronomers have glimpsed the inner…
Dusty structure explains near vanishing of faraway star Stars die and vanish from sight all the time, but astronomers were…
Self-consistent model incorporates gas self-gravity effects to address accretion across cosmic scales A research team led by Prof. Jiao Chengliang…
Claudio Maccone (1948-2025) In all too many ways, I wasn’t really surprised to learn that Claudio Maccone had passed away….
Rock, ice, and glass The Solar System is full of rocky and icy bodies, but this particular galaxy is made…
Reality is evil Everything eats and is eaten. Everything destroys and is destroyed. It is our moral duty to strike…
New study counters idea that Jupiter’s mysterious core was formed by a giant impact A new Durham University study has…
Secretive mini space shuttle set for Space Coast launch; late-night sonic boom possible It won’t have any crew, but the…
XRISM reveals slow-moving hot gas near black hole during faint X-ray phase An international research team has reported remarkable findings…
Where are the interstellar objects 1I/’Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/Atlas headed now? In the past decade, astronomers have witnessed three interstellar…
Scoot selects OutSystems to enhance flight disruption management Scoot has engaged OutSystems, a low-code development platform powered by AI, to…
Parker Solar Probe confirms decades-old theoretical models about magnetic reconnection New research led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has confirmed…
Space mice babies: Stem cells cryopreserved in space produce healthy offspring Features of spaceflight such as gravitational changes and circadian…
After repeated explosions, new test for Musk’s megarocket Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced Friday that its Starship megarocket is scheduled to…
Generation Ships and their Consequences Our ongoing discussion of the Project Hyperion generation ship contest continues to spark a wide…
Dark star clusters or extreme dwarf galaxies? Astrophysicists revisit Ursa Major III’s true nature Ursa Major III, the faintest object…
All space rocks great and small From large comets to tiny meteorites and all the asteroids in between, it’s worth…
Socrates would be pleased With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest…
Astronauts launch space agriculture with seed pillows When the Crew-11 astronauts launched to the International Space Station on August 1,…
Astronauts launch space agriculture with seed pillows When the Crew-11 astronauts launched to the International Space Station on August 1,…
Optical magnetometer measures magnetic field direction for the first time For just over two years, a scalar magnetometer developed by…
Astronaut catches gigantic jet on camera On July 3, 2025, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a stunning photo of an…
Chrysalis: Designing a Generation Ship If you want to explore the history of generation ships in science fiction, you might…
ST Engineering, SF Airlines inaugurate new MRO facility in Ezhou, China ST Engineering and SF Airlines have inaugurated a new…
On its fifth try, SpaceX manages launch of competitor Amazon’s satellites SpaceX was not one of Amazon’s original choices to…
Astronauts return to Earth with SpaceX after 5 months at the International Space Station Four astronauts returned to Earth on…
US astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, dead at 97 US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo…
Summer’s best meteor shower peaks soon. But the moon will interfere with viewing the Perseids Summer’s most dazzling meteor shower,…
Do rovers dream of electric sheep? Rovers like Curiosity need their sleep. Meanwhile, dreams of interstellar travel are being pursued….
The incompleteness of ethics Many hope that AI will discover ethical truths. But as Gödel shows, deciding what is right…
Linking local lithologies to a larger landscape on Mars NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is continuing to explore a boundary visible…
SpaceX scrubs Thursday attempt, will aim for Friday to send up more Amazon satellites SpaceX was not one of Amazon’s…
Perseverance rover captures Mars vista as clear as day The imaging team of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has taken advantage…
Joby Aviation to buy Blade Air Mobility’s passenger business Joby Aviation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the urban…
NASA races to put nuclear reactors on Moon and Mars The United States is rushing to put nuclear power reactors…
A Rotating Probe Launcher Alternative to TARS Shortly before publishing my article on David Kipping’s TARS concept (Torqued Accelerator using…
Marking 13 years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity picks up new skills Thirteen years after Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are…
Bid to relocate US Space Shuttle Discovery faces museum pushback Tucked inside President Donald Trump’s flagship tax and spending bill…
Pale Red Dots on Mars Conceptual illustration of two Pale Red Dot villages on Mars serviced by SpaceX Starships. Credits:…
Image: Webb takes a fresh look at a classic deep field This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope…
Astronauts launch to the space station after sidelined by Boeing’s troubled Starliner Astronauts sidelined for the past year by Boeing’s…
Eat, sleep, explore space, repeat Astronauts may be living on the frontiers of human space exploration, but they still need…
A life in Zen Growing up in countercultural California, ‘enlightenment’ had real glamour. But decades of practice have changed my…
Simulations reveal surprising electron temperatures near M87 black hole’s event horizon The first black hole images stunned the world in…
Russian space chief says agreed with NASA on ISS cooperation until 2028 The head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said…
Seismic activity on the moon could pose risk to long-term lunar infrastructure A new paper reveals that ground acceleration from…
The hunt for ‘planet nine’: Why there could still be something massive at the edge of the solar system Is…
High Lander, Dimetor join forces to advance UAS traffic management High Lander, a provider of UAS traffic management (UTM) and…
Planet K2-18b may not host alien life, but it is home to a water-rich interior A large sub-Neptune-sized planet revolving…
European Vega C rocket ferries satellites into orbit A rocket carrying carbon dioxide- and Earth-observing satellites successfully blasted off from…
NASA says it will lose about 20 percent of its workforce The US space agency NASA will lose about 3,900…
ETI in our Datasets? A recent workshop at Ohio State raises a number of interesting questions regarding what is being…
How to watch two meteor showers peak together in late July It’s almost time for summer’s meteor shower duet. Go…
Worlds in swirls New research expands our understanding and observations of how planets form. And, good news in the fight…
Beyond food and people Nietzsche shows us how to embrace our connection with nature – without denying its essential conflict,…
Heliostats could be used to detect asteroids, says researcher Sandia scientist John Sandusky believes he has found a way to…
Heliostats could be used to detect asteroids, says researcher Sandia scientist John Sandusky believes he has found a way to…
JWST finds plenty of low mass black holes in the early universe Black holes played a critical role in the…
How the moon’s hidden protection shields against solar wind erosion The moon’s thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, has been a…
SETI at the Extremes Science fiction has always provoked interesting research. After all, many of the scientists I’ve spoken with…
EVA Air introduces UATP prepaid card for streamlined payments EVA Air has launched a new co-branded UATP prepaid card in…
How NASA saved a camera from 370 million miles away The mission team of NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a…
Astronomers capture the birth of planets around a baby sun outside our solar system Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds…
Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats Institute at Purdue University releases its Impact Report Artist impression of a lunar habitat designed for resiliency…
Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago Our first meeting was a bit…
Vision problems emerge as astronauts spend months in orbit When astronauts began spending six months and more aboard the International…
Spaceflight worth the fight A flyby anniversary reminds us why missions of exploration are worth fighting for. Go to Source…
The grammar of a god-ocean To truly explore alien languages, linguists must open themselves to the maximum conceivable degree of…
NASA to launch SNIFS, the sun’s next trailblazing spectator July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral…
Space exploration should be more democratic and equitable to all potential actors We are amid what appears to be a…
Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches meteoric $5.3 million at New York auction The largest piece of Mars ever…
A Better Look at 3I/ATLAS Just a short note, prompted by the release of new imagery of the intersellar object…
The Habitable Worlds Observatory could find more very massive stars Very massive stars (VMSs) have had a massive impact on…
