Welcome to the Gas Giant Planet Where Clouds Turn to Stone
The gas giant WASP-94A b – credit, artistic interpretation by Hannah Robbins, released by Johns Hopkins University Welcome…
The SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you
I haven’t seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time — that…
The year of cosmic shock
President Trump jokingly posts a doctored photo of himself leading an alien in chains out of Area 51,…
China building massive launch pads near nuclear sites, satellite images show: ‘Never seen anything like it’ | World News – Hindustan Times
China building massive launch pads near nuclear sites, satellite images show: ‘Never seen anything like it’ | World…
UAE’s dark desert spot offers a rare view of the Milky Way galaxy
AL QUAA DESERT, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The gleaming skyscrapers and brights lights of the United Arab…
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 50th Starlink mission of 2026 – Spaceflight Now
File – SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands in the vertical launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East…
Tonight only: three dazzling stars set to light up the night sky
Tonight only: three dazzling stars set to light up the night sky – Futura-Sciences May 30, 2026 3…
Who You Send to the Moon Matters More Than You Think
Pick any great expedition in history and somewhere in the story, usually tucked away in a footnote, you’ll…
Astronomers have found a cloud of water vapour around a distant quasar holding something like 140 trillion times all the water in Earth’s oceans, the largest reservoir of water ever discovered anywhere in the universe.
In July 2011, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that two teams of astronomers had detected an enormous mass…
A day on Earth is described as 24 hours, but the planet has been slowing down for billions of years — and growth rings in ancient coral fossils show that 380 million years ago, hundreds of millions of years before any dinosaur existed, an Earth day was only about 22 hours long
The length of a day on Earth is not constant. The planet’s rotation has been slowing for billions…
There is a region of space called the Boötes void, around 330 million light years wide and almost completely empty, and if our galaxy sat at its centre, we might not have discovered that other galaxies existed until well into the twentieth century.
In the direction of the constellation Boötes there is a roughly spherical region of space, around 330 million…
The Sun might look yellow, but seen from space without an atmosphere filtering its light, the sun is actually white — and the yellow color we see from Earth is the result of our atmosphere scattering blue wavelengths away, in the same physics that makes the sky appear blue
The Sun is depicted as yellow in children’s drawings, in weather icons, on flags, and in the standard…