How a NASA balloon launched an exoplanet experiment—despite the shutdown
A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government…
X-Rays Reveal Betelgeuse’s Companion Is Something Astronomers Didn’t Expect : ScienceAlert
The small, furtive companion of one of the brightest stars in Earth’s night sky has just turned out…
Record-breaking gamma ray burst seems to be caused by a black hole engulfed by a bloated star
The combined, background-subtracted gamma-ray lightcurve of GRB 250702B. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.22792 On July 2, 2025, NASA’s Fermi…
New Images of Nickel and Cyanide Around 3I/ATLAS from the Keck Telescope | by Avi Loeb | Oct, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeAn image of 3I/ATLAS on August 24, 2025, taken…
Confirmed by NASA—before oxygen and plants, Earth may have had a violet hue due to a molecule called retinal
If we had to color a picture of the Earth, we would color it green and blue, right?…
Solving the Mystery of Solar Rain
The corona of the Sun is an extraordinary place, with temperatures exceeding one million degrees Celsius, far hotter…
UAE lining up new satellite internet system after Red Sea cable disruption
Users of the UAE’s e& network could soon connect to satellite internet using their mobile phones and devices…
Lab of Future students launch stratospheric CubeSat in Russia
Partnerships and global reach LOF represents the UAE at global forums such as the EAIE Conference (Sweden), Smart…
Can we hear gravitational-wave ‘beats’ in the rhythm of pulsars?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Pulsars suggest that ultra–low-frequency gravitational waves are rippling through the cosmos. The signal seen…
The Universe’s “Red Sky Paradox” Just Got Darker — Most Stars Might Never Host Observers
A new study has looked into the so-called “red sky paradox” and the puzzling observation that intelligent life…
The space junk crisis: why orbital debris is the next big threat to our future in space
From an astronaut’s point of view, the debris issue isn’t theoretical—it’s existential. Atienza, an analogue astronaut who trains…
Arab Scholars May Have Noted the Supernovae of 1006 and 1181
A new study finds possible references to two classic supernovae in ancient texts. It’s great to see old…