To Study the Moon’s Ancient Ice, We First Have to Pollute It
There is a fundamental tension in space exploration that has created ongoing debates for decades. By creating the…
CAS Space conducts first suborbital launch and capsule landing test
HELSINKI — Chinese commercial firm CAS Space launched its first Lihong-1 suborbital flight and recovery test mission, seeing…
Space-based data centers could be reality in the next few years
FOX Business’ Madison Alworth has the details on ‘Mornings with Maria.’ Surging demand for energy to power artificial intelligence…
Taiwan’s Moonshot: why ‘T-Dome’ needs systems engineering, not just a shopping list
When President John F. Kennedy stood before Congress in May 1961 and declared that the United States would…
James Webb Space Telescope’s mysterious ‘little red dots’ may be black holes in disguise
Ancient galaxies colloquially known as “little red dots” have proven a mystery ever since astronomers discovered them three…
Two New Exoplanets And The Need For New Habitable Zone Definitions
At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as…
Unusual ‘ingredients’ helped stars form in a galaxy near the Milky Way
Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual…
What’s Really Beneath Earth? The Answer Goes Way Beyond Space
Most people think they know exactly where “down” is. It’s the direction your feet point. But that familiar…
Astronauts’ Bodies Aged By 2 Years After 9 Days In Space, Then Became ‘Younger’ Hours After Return To Earth
Credit: pcruciatti on Shutterstock One astronaut became younger than before the trip, and maintained lower biological age through…
‘One of those rare ‘wow’ moments’: Zombie star near Earth has a rainbow shockwave that ‘shouldn’t be there’
Stunned astronomers have discovered a zombie star relatively near Earth that is inexplicably emitting a persistent, rainbow-like shock…
NASA X-ray instrument finds black holes act like ‘cosmic seesaws’ shaping the universe
Turns out the expression “you can’t have it all” also applies to black holes. Astronomers have discovered that…
Massive supernova explosion may have created a binary black hole
Astronomers have observed a strange but powerful supernova explosion that not only marked the death of a massive,…