SpaceX launches 21 ‘data transport’ satellites for US military (photos)
Starship isn’t the only SpaceX rocket flying today. A Falcon 9 rocket launched from California’s Vandenberg Space Force…
570-Megapixel Dark Energy Camera Photographs Van Gogh-Esque ‘Starry Night’
The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) pointed its 570-megapixel CCD image sensor, housed inside the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter…
First atmosphere detected on a habitable-zone rocky world
image: In this artist’s concept, the exoplanet LHS 1140 b is shown in the foreground, surrounded by a…
NASA Study Finds Near-Earth Asteroid Is Actually Comet
“The images we collected from these observatories showed a weak but clear tail, thus confirming that 1998 SH2…
For The First Time, Astronomers Detect An Atmosphere Around A Rocky ‘Habitable Zone’ Planet : ScienceAlert
As the famous lullaby attests, the diamond-like stars above have always been our companions. And with recent astronomical…
Meteorite That Crashed Into New Jersey Home Contains Rare Ingredients of Life
Two years ago, a meteorite plummeted through Earth’s atmosphere and crashed into a New Jersey home. Now, analysis…
Astronomers have found the first stellar-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, locked with a star in a 94-year orbit — the longest-period black hole binary yet found
By the time a star in Omega Centauri finishes a single loop around its companion, a person born…
Young gas giant challenges a leading theory of planet formation
Astronomers have measured the mix of two forms of carbon in the atmosphere of Beta Pictoris b, a…
Violent supernova remnants may still nurture the chemistry of life
Astronomers have found warm cocoons of gas wrapped around newborn stars inside the wreckage of a star that…
Applying to ESA this summer? Here’s how to make the most of it
Agency 16/07/2026 262 views 2 likes Summer is a time to recharge, but it can also be the…
Four first-time astronauts with only four hours of training took the first diagnostic X-rays ever captured on human beings in orbit, and radiologists on the ground judged the images clinically usable enough to catch a fracture a quarter-million miles from the nearest hospital
The first X-ray ever taken of a human body, in 1895, was of Wilhelm Röntgen’s wife’s hand, wedding…
Saturn’s moon Titan runs the same weather cycle as Earth — clouds, rain, rivers and seas — except the liquid doing all the work is methane, and the bedrock underfoot is water frozen at nearly minus 180 degrees, harder than most stone on Earth
The Huygens probe drifted under a parachute through an orange haze on January 14, 2005, and set down…