Astronomers used AI to find 1,400 ‘anomalous objects’ from Hubble archives
A pair of astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) discovered more than 800 previously undocumented “astrophysical anomalies”…
Japan lost a 5-ton navigation satellite when it fell off a rocket during launch
If you’re in the space business long enough, you learn there are numerous ways a rocket can fail.…
POLARIS Spaceplanes Wins Contract for Reusable Hypersonic Vehicle
Credit: POLARIS Spaceplanes The German government agency responsible for military procurement has awarded a contract to POLARIS Spaceplanes…
Snow Buries the U.S. Interior and East
A potent winter storm left a wide band of snow stretching from the U.S. Southwest to New England…
Webb Data Reveals Dark Matter
This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, containing nearly 800,000 galaxies, is overlaid with a map of…
Astronomers discover the ‘growing pains’ of teenage exoplanets
When the Undertones sang about “Teenage Kicks,” they could well have been inadvertently referring to the chaotic and…
Exotrail and Astroscale France join forces to build deorbiting capability for LEO
BRUSSELS — Exotrail, a French company specializing in multi-orbit satellite mobility and focused on LEO service vehicles, together…
‘Time is of the essence’ to build a made-in-Europe space policy, French and German ministers say
“Time is of the essence” to quickly develop a European space policy that relies much more heavily on…
See the ‘Seven Sisters’ of the Pleiades swim in the light of a waxing moon at sunset tonight
Look high above the southeastern horizon in the hours following sunset on Jan. 27 to see the waxing…
in a few days, the truth about 3I/ATLAS will be revealed
Earth is about to get a rare, almost straight-line view of a visitor from another star system. In…
University of Southern Queensland astronomer discovers ‘potentially habitable’ planet candidate
Australian astronomers have led an international study that has discovered a candidate for a “potentially habitable” Earth-sized planet…
Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth?
A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference:…