Google is sending an AI satellite into space next week
The satellite, equipped with Google’s Tensor Processing Units, will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on October…
Strange Galaxies in the Early Universe Were Shaped by Weird Stars
Galaxies and their stars in the early Universe look a lot weirder than those we see today, and…
Scientists Detect Radio Signals from an Exoplanet for the First Time in History
Approximately 63 light-years from Earth lies a planetary system so young that its less than 1 percent as…
APOD: 2026 September 24 – The Ghosts of Five Supernovas
Explanation: The ghosts of five supernovas haunt this extraordinary image. It was acquired at Oukaïmeden Observatory in Morocco…
Cloudy Cloak Over the Northwest
Cool, marine air rolling off the Pacific Ocean led to a picturesque layer of morning clouds over western…
Aurora season is back! Pilot captures spectacular northern lights from 37,000 ft
Aurora season is well underway, folks, and pilot Matt Melnyk arguably has one of the best seats in…
NASA Aircraft to Make Low-Altitude Research Flights Over Colorado
Agricultural emissions represent an important and understudied part of Earth’s land and atmosphere systems. The FarmFlux mission will deploy more than a dozen…
NASA Modernizes Commercial Airline Systems
NASA’s researchers know that when you settle into your seat on a commercial flight, you expect a smooth…
SpaceX stacks massive Starship rocket ahead of 1st orbital launch attempt (video)
SpaceX has completed assembly of the Starship rocket slated to launch the test vehicle’s most ambitious mission to…
Something Deep Inside Earth Keeps Messing With the Length of Our Days
For practical purposes, we say that one day—the time it takes for Earth to rotate once on its…
Astronomers just named an asteroid after ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
It may not be a slime creature from outer space, but you can finally find “Weird Al” Yankovic’s…
Asteroid-mining company AstroForge to launch world’s 1st totally autonomous spacecraft in 2027
AstroForge plans to make spaceflight history next year. The California-based asteroid-mining company has booked its Autonomy-1 mission on…