‘This feels fragile’: how a satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control | Space
For hundreds of thousands of years, Earth’s orbit has been a vast and empty space – free from…
Aurora Borealis Watch: 15 States May Catch Glimpse of Northern Lights This Week
It’s the height of the aurora borealis season, but the skies have been relatively calm lately, with only…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be nearly 12 billion years old — so ancient its star system may no longer exist
The interstellar comet that recently dominated headlines, 3I/ATLAS, could be between 10 and 12 billion years old, a…
Fires Tear Through Nebraska Grasslands
On the afternoon of March 12, 2026, a wildland fire ignited in Morrill County, Nebraska. Within 12 hours,…
Oldest Carbon-rich Stars Open a Window to Early Cosmic Chemistry
Astronomers studying the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Pictor II have found an extremely chemically peculiar star that contains traces…
the “monster” located at the center of the Milky Way (4 million suns) has a set date for its “awakening”
From here on Earth, the Milky Way looks calm. Yet at its center sits Sagittarius A*, a supermassive…
NSW premier calls for more sovereignty on national energy supply as petrol prices rise
NSW Premier Chris Minns has argued Australia needs greater “sovereignty” over its energy and must electrify its economy…
See The Computers That Powered The Voyager Space Program
Have you ever wanted to see the computers behind the first (and for now only) man-made objects to…
Record-breaking ‘space laser’ erupts from merging galaxies 8 billion light-years away
Astronomers have spotted the most distant and brightest “space laser,” or megamaser, ever seen, and it’s blasting out…
Huge solar flare no threat to Artemis 2 astronaut launch to the moon, NASA says
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A massive solar eruption from the sun poses no threat to NASA’s planned launch…
SpaceX Bought Elon Musk’s AI Company Last Month — Now It Wants to Go Public
It was around a year ago that X (formerly Twitter) was merged with xAI, the artificial intelligence (AI)…
Photos: Historic moments in space exploration
Humanity’s quest to touch the stars began nearly 70 years ago when the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik…