Astronomers Discover Quartz Clouds on Exoplanets That Bend Starlight in Unusual Ways
In a groundbreaking study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers at Cornell University have suggested that quartz…
Disney and NASA Keep Selling Space Travel. Nobody’s Buying.
In 1954, Walt Disney was struggling to imagine tomorrow. Disneyland was set to open the following year and…
NASA’s “Bold Breakthrough” Divides Experts as Supersonic Parachutes Get $15 Million Upgrade in High-Stakes Flight Tests
IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 NASA is conducting tests on advanced supersonic parachutes equipped with innovative sensors to improve…
Watch Rocket Lab launch private Japanese radar satellite to orbit tonight
Rocket Lab will launch a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS tonight (Aug.…
In 2003, Elon Musk Predicted Exactly How Far SpaceX Would Go—And 21 Years Later, It’s All Coming True
When Elon Musk laid out his dream of space connectivity and human expansion beyond Earth more than two…
Trump administration takes aim at satellite that measures carbon dioxide and crops : NPR
A robotic arm attached to the International Space Station brings in the spacecraft carrying one of two Orbiting…
a strange flash on Saturn captured by an amateur astronomer could be the first recorded collision in the giant planet’s history
For the first time in history… something strange happened on Saturn and someone recorded it! In the planet…
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from Florida, lands rocket at sea
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida early this morning (Aug. 4).…
Taiwanese entrepreneur shakes up satellite industry
Taiwanese tech entrepreneur Thomas Yen (顏伯勳) turned fiction into reality after being inspired by the maneuverability of a…
Rare Green Fireball Blazes Across Thailand, Identified as Perseid ‘Bolide’
A spectacular green light, identified as an exceptionally large “fireball” or ‘bolide’, illuminated the night sky…
Extreme black hole system OJ 287 just got more interesting
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
The Webb telescope saw something no one was supposed to see; key details inside
The James Webb Space Telescope recently opened a new window onto one of the universe’s more mysterious secrets.…