Scientists found the key to accurate Maya eclipse tables
The Mayan calendars were maintained by specialists known as “daykeepers,” a cultural tradition that continues today. There is…
Electron launches confidential commercial satellite
BREMEN, Germany — Rocket Lab launched a payload for an undisclosed commercial customer Nov. 20, just hours after…
AI helps build the most detailed Milky Way simulation ever, mapping 100 billion stars
The most detailed supercomputer simulation ever of our Milky Way galaxy has been created by combining machine learning…
We Finally Know the Birthplace of the Mars-Sized Rock That Spawned Our Moon
Around 100 million years after the formation of the solar system, a Mars-sized object dubbed Theia slammed into…
Webb telescope images an aging binary star system in the center of a four-layered cosmic dust shell
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has shown us images of space we’d never see otherwise, and one of…
“Very Old, Undisturbed Structure” May Have Been Discovered Beyond Neptune, Over 6 Billion Kilometers From The Sun
A team looking at the dynamics of objects in the Kuiper belt, the ring-shaped region of icy bodies…
Could We Actually Launch a Supervillain Into the Sun?
Editor’s note: This article is a lighthearted and educational exploration of orbital mechanics; no one is seriously proposing…
Moss in space: spores survive nine-month ride on outside of ISS | Biology
Matt Damon grew potatoes for survival in The Martian, but researchers say mosses could one day help turn…
Moss survived in space for nine months, study finds
Mosses are thought to have descended from ancestral plants that started moving out of water to colonize dry…
‘3I/ATLAS is a comet’: NASA finally releases new 3I/ATLAS images and addresses alien rumors
NASA has finally released a cache of previously unseen images of comet 3I/ATLAS, as the space agency stresses…
Attack, defend, pursue—the Space Force’s new naming scheme foretells new era
A little more than a century ago, the US Army Air Service came up with a scheme for…
Is the universe’s expansion slowing down? Astronomers cast doubt on Nobel-winning theory
The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding…