APOD: 2026 September 11 – M83: The Southern Pinwheel
APOD: 2026 September 11 – M83: The Southern Pinwheel Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or…
The Moon may have formed intact just hours after a giant collision
Earth has an unusually large moon compared with other rocky planets in the solar system, but scientists still…
Scientists just witnessed the birth of a double-star system in real time. It’s like watching a Star Wars world forming right in front of us
Astronomers have captured one of the most detailed 3D views ever recorded of a massive binary star system…
Millions in new funding boost Florida’s Space Coast launch infrastructure
Millions in new funding boost Florida’s Space Coast launch infrastructure CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Our Space Coast continues…
Venus disappears behind the Moon, 14 September 2026. Here’s how to see the lunar occultation
Venus will disappear behind the Moon on 14 September 2026, from 09:30 BST (08:30 UT), in an event…
Astronomers used 69 fast radio bursts as cosmic backlights to complete the clearest census yet of the universe’s missing ordinary matter, finding that roughly 76% resides as extremely diffuse ionized gas in the vast spaces between galaxies — while only 9% remains inside galaxies as stars and gas.
The universe’s “missing matter” was never thought to have vanished. Cosmologists could infer how much ordinary, atom-building matter…
Parent body of asteroid Ryugu formed early in solar system history, study finds
A research team from Hokkaido University and other institutions said Friday that the parent celestial body of the…
APOD: 2026 September 11 – M83: The Southern Pinwheel
Explanation: Beautiful and bright spiral galaxy M83 lies some twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long…
After more than 50 years, a solar telescope in New Mexico is being pulled down, after liquid mercury from the bearing that let its 250-ton optical system turn was found inside the tower. Crews found the metal on January 5.
A solar telescope in New Mexico is being torn down, and the reason is a pool of liquid…
SpaceX confirms plans to launch Starlink satellites on next Starship mission
PARIS — A SpaceX executive confirmed that the next flight of the company’s Starship rocket will carry its…
SpaceX CFO Says First Paying Starship Flight Is Weeks Away, Reiterates $100B ARR Milestone By Year-End
SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen told investors at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia + Technology Conference that a recent hosting deal…
The Moon may have formed intact just hours after a giant collision
Earth has an unusually large moon compared with other rocky planets in the solar system, but scientists still…