Rocket Lab launches JAXA tech demo satellite
WASHINGTON — A Rocket Lab Electron rocket successfully launched a technology demonstration satellite for the Japan Aerospace Exploration…
Super-Jupiter Exoplanets May Challenge Everything We Know About Gas Giants
New research reveals that these colossal worlds likely have highly turbulent, chaotic atmospheres, defying the typical image of…
This Star Is Being Eaten Alive—and Its Explosive Death Will Be Visible in Broad Daylight
A case of astronomical fratricide is doomed to end in a fiery supernova bright enough to be spotted…
‘Could amplify and alter the timing’
Glaciers move in mysterious ways, speeding up and slowing down as the seasons change. However, as India Today…
The Near Space Adventures Of Bradfield The Bear
Admit it or not, you probably have a teddy bear somewhere in your past that you were —…
3I/ATLAS: ESA’s XMM-NEWTON Caught The Exocomet Under X-ray Light; Here’s What It Found
The European Space Agency (ESA) released x-ray imagery of 3I/ATLAS, the third-ever recorded interstellar interloper in the solar…
Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellites before making 550th SpaceX landing
Almost 10 years to the day since it successfully landed its first rocket stage, SpaceX today (Dec. 14)…
Meteor Activity Outlook for 13-19 December 2025
Tobias Felber captured this fireball on August 28, 2025, at 01:49 CEST (23:49 UT on Aug 27) from Glashütte,…
Measuring Radio Leaks from 36,000 Kilometres Up
Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometres overhead, designed to broadcast communications or relay data,…
Starts With A Bang podcast #124 – Astrochemistry
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 6 Launch By LVM3 Delayed; Cause Unknown
The 15th December launch of AST SpaceMobile Inc’s 6.5-ton BlueBird 6 satellite aboard India’s LVM3 rocket has been postponed, it is reliably…
Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight — here’s what to expect from one of the best shooting star shows of the year
A composite view of the Geminid meteor shower taken from Arizona in the United States. (Image credit: Alan…