SpaceX Closes In on $150 as 2 Rockets Launch Back-to-Back
Quick Read SpaceX (SPCX) crushed Q2 estimates by 15%, delivering $7.8B in revenue on 92% year-over-year growth as…
JWST found water-altered clay minerals on two of Neptune’s tiny inner moons and its rings that probably formed deep inside much larger icy worlds — compelling evidence that today’s moons may be rubble from Neptune’s original satellite system, destroyed when the captured moon Triton tore through it billions of years ago.
The clay is the clue. Larissa and Galatea are two small, dark moons tucked close to Neptune, where…
Astronomers discover a black hole pretending to be a star
Astronomers have identified what they believe is an entirely new kind of astrophysical object: a “black hole star.”…
On this day in space! Aug. 17, 1877: Asaph Hall Discovers the Martian moon Phobos
On Aug. 17, 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Mars’s moon Phobos. Moons of Mars: Amazing Photos of…
A ‘river’ of cosmic gas 1 trillion miles long sent planets in the Orion constellation into tilted orbits
A rare planet-forming disk around a young triple-star system in the Orion constellation has been tipped over by…
SpaceX closes $60bn acquisition of AI coding agent Cursor
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has completed its $60bn acquisition of AI coding agent Cursor, a deal the company has…
What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 1: The Atmospheric Fingerprint
In 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft, then six billion kilometers from Earth and destined to become humanity’s most…
Webb captures two baby stars growing inside a dusty cloud
Webb offers a rare look at how two young stars gather material, release powerful outflows, and slowly grow…
Point Nemo is so remote that astronauts can be closer than people on Earth, yet its surrounding waters are a cemetery for spacecraft
There is a stretch of the South Pacific Ocean so remote that the closest people to it are…
Billionaire founder agrees with Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos: We will work in space
Some of the world’s most powerful tech billionaires think your next job posting could come from another planet.…
Moon Meets Venus, Spica And The ‘Anti-Mars’: The Night Sky This Week
Topline With the Perseid meteor shower fading and the total solar eclipse now over, attention turns to the…
Starwatch: Vega the bright star will light the way to the constellation of Lyra | Science
We turn our attention this week to one of the sky’s smallest constellations. High overhead from the UK…