Read More News Space 13 hours ago Why Hot Jupiters' Winds Slow Down Under Magnetic Brakes A study of seven hot Jupiters finds that the hottest of these exoplanets show slower-than-expected winds, likely due to magnetic braking. The pattern offers a new way to infer planetary magnetic fields and their effects.
Read More News Space 2 days ago How Giant Telescopes Will Soon Reveal Earthlike Worlds New space missions and enormous ground telescopes such as the Giant Magellan Telescope will combine adaptive optics and spectroscopy to locate and study Earth-sized exoplanets, shifting us from detection to characterization.
Read More News Space 2 days ago New Glenn Explosion Forces Six-Month Delay at Blue Origin A New Glenn booster exploded during a preflight test, destroying Blue Origin's launch pad and delaying Amazon's Project Kuiper and NASA lunar plans. Reconstruction may take six months while investigations proceed.
Read More News Space 3 days ago Did Earth Seed Life in Venus’s Clouds? New Models Say Maybe New modeling suggests material blasted from Earth could reach Venus’s cloud decks and remain viable. Researchers using the Venus Life Equation estimate hundreds to billions of transferred cells over geological time.
Read More News Space 7 days ago JWST Finds a Moonlike World Bigger Than Earth in Infrared JWST's mid-infrared observations of LHS 3844b reveal a scorched, Mercury-like exoplanet larger than Earth, suggesting a basaltic or mantle-like surface with little atmosphere or sign of recent volcanism.
Read More News Space 7 days ago A Sudden Reversal in Earth's Molten Core: What Happened? Satellite measurements reveal that in 2010 a region of Earth's molten outer core beneath the Pacific reversed its flow, turning eastward. New analysis of decades of data links this to geomagnetic and rotational anomalies and raises questions about core dynamics.
Read More News Space 8 days ago Psyche's Mars Flyby: A Gravity Boost Toward a Metal World NASA’s Psyche mission skims Mars for a gravity assist, gaining speed and testing instruments en route to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche; arrival expected August 2029.
Read More Space 13 days ago The Universe May Be Tilted, and Cosmology Feels It A new study suggests the universe may be asymmetric on large scales, challenging the standard cosmological model, the cosmological principle, and even dark energy itself.
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Read More Space 2 months ago NASA Unveils Artemis II Moon Mission Livestream Plan NASA has released the full livestream schedule for Artemis II, offering a front-row seat to humanity’s first crewed Moon mission in decades, from prelaunch briefings to liftoff and beyond.
Read More Space 2 months ago How the Sun Escaped the Milky Way’s Chaotic Core Astronomers suggest the Sun was born near the Milky Way’s chaotic center before migrating outward billions of years ago. New research using Gaia data reveals how this stellar journey may have helped create conditions for life on Earth.
Read More News Space 3 months ago Is WOH G64 Dying or Just Putting on a Stellar Show? Astronomers debate whether WOH G64 truly evolved from a red supergiant into a yellow hypergiant or if its changing appearance results from binary interaction and circumstellar effects. New titanium oxide detections suggest it may still be a red supergiant.
Read More News Space 3 months ago SpaceX Rocket Re-entry Leaves Detectable Lithium Plume Scientists detected a lithium plume in the upper atmosphere and traced it to an uncontrolled SpaceX Falcon 9 re-entry, revealing measurable metal pollution from space debris and prompting calls for monitoring and regulation.
Read More News Space 3 months ago Artemis II Delay: Moon Rocket Rolled Back for Repairs NASA rolled the Artemis II Moon rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building after a helium-system malfunction surfaced following hydrogen leak tests. Repairs could delay the March launch and shift the mission toward April, pending successful fixes.
Read More News Space 3 months ago Hidden Dusty Galaxies Rewrite Early Cosmic Timeline Astronomers used ALMA and JWST to uncover faint, dust-rich galaxies that formed about one billion years after the Big Bang, revealing a possible transitional population that reshapes early galaxy evolution.
Read More News Space 3 months ago Why NASA May Postpone Artemis II: Helium Flow Concerns NASA may push back the Artemis II crewed lunar flyby after a helium flow anomaly. Teams will roll the rocket back to the assembly building to inspect systems, prioritizing crew safety over schedule.
Read More News Space 3 months ago Gaia Finds a Hidden Swarm of Black Holes in Palomar 5 Gaia's precise survey reveals Palomar 5 hosts a hidden population of over 100 stellar-mass black holes. Simulations show these black holes drive star ejection, shaping tidal streams and cluster fate.
Read More News Space 3 months ago How and Why This Comet Stopped Spinning — Then Reversed Comet 41P underwent a rare rotational reversal in 2017, slowing to a stop and likely spinning the other way due to asymmetric outgassing. Observations and Hubble data illuminate the mechanics and implications.
Read More News Space 3 months ago Moon South-Pole Landing Will Not Compromise Astronaut Safety A planned crewed landing near the Moon's south pole remains years away. Jared Isaacman emphasizes astronaut safety after a fueling test and a scathing review of Boeing's Starliner highlighted risks to crewed missions.
