Vulcan Centaur swapped out again: NASA goes with SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for launch of space weather mission
NASA is shaking things up for its next mission to research the sun. The six satellites of NASA’s…
NASA’s Perseverance rover finds the strongest evidence yet of ancient life on Mars
The surface of Mars is no place for anything fragile. Radiation pours down, and the ground’s chemistry tears…
The computers guiding Voyager 1 through interstellar space process roughly 8,000 instructions per second; a modern smartphone processes more than 14 billion — yet that 1970s machine has operated for nearly half a century, farther from Earth than any spacecraft in history.
Voyager 1 is controlled by computers whose performance belongs to another technological era. A frequently repeated comparison puts…
Astronomers fix a key error in measuring the Sun’s silver
Researchers have recalculated how much silver the Sun holds, and the answer is about 55 percent higher than…
How to safely watch the August 2026 solar eclipse in Portugal
The Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology is urging anyone planning to watch the eclipse to use only certified solar…
Chondritic meteorites may be the remains of escaped moons
The chondritic meteorites that land on Earth most often are the shattered remains of tiny moons that once…
NASA’s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars
NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain…
Satellite spots a ‘hummingbird’ in Antarctica photo of the day for July 23, 2026
A hummingbird shape in satellite data from NISAR is actually a mountaintop spotted in Antarctica. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)…
The silicon brains steering next-generation antennas
Nestled in the centre of an electronic circuit board lies a miniature black chip. Tiny but mighty, this…
Saturn’s moon Titan has rivers, lakes and rainfall without a single drop of water, and scientists know why |
At first glance, Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, looks remarkably like Earth. Its surface is covered by winding rivers,…
Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn | Space
Space datacenters proposed by SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and others would release staggering levels of pollution that…
Planetary-mass exosatellite detected around the substellar companion of a star
Schneider, J., Dedieu, C., Le Sidaner, P., Savalle, R. & Zolotukhin, I. The extrasolar planets encyclopaedia: a database…