A ghostly ribbon of stars reveals hidden dark matter
For billions of years, an ancient cluster of stars has been gradually coming apart, shedding stars that now…
Tory Bruno Named Honorary Chair Of World Space Week 2027
Houston — World Space Week Association announced today that Tory Bruno, President of National Security at Blue Origin,…
Sunlight Travel Time: In 1992, scientists found out that light formed in the Sun’s core takes 1,70,000 years to reach its surface; Why does the sunlight that takes 8 minutes to reach Earth require lakhs of years to come out?
Sunlight helps to sustain life on Earth; as soon as we step outside and tilt our faces up,…
Lunar eclipse August 2026 — Everything you need to know about the 96% ‘blood moon’
On Aug. 27-28, 2026, a very deep partial lunar eclipse will be visible from Europe, Africa, North America…
SpaceX rocket set to depart Christmas Island for Texas aboard specialist recovery vessel
Like a certain extraterrestrial, SpaceX’s Starship 40 is set to depart its adopted safe harbour of Christmas Island…
NASA Starshade Would Enable Astronomers To Directly Image Rocky Exoworlds
A NASA-led team is hoping to take a short cut in directly imaging extrasolar earthlike planets. The idea…
Trump to award Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Artemis II astronauts
President Donald J. Trump will present the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to each member of NASA’s Artemis…
Starwatch: Lunar eclipse to reward early risers in UK and Europe | The moon
The early hours of Friday 28 August will reward very early risers in the UK, Europe and Africa…
A round-trip Mars mission could last roughly three years, and a model based on bone-density data from 69 astronauts predicted that everyone following the longer mission profile would return with osteopenia, while roughly one-third could be at risk of osteoporosis.
No astronaut has returned from Mars with osteopenia. No human being has travelled to Mars at all. The…
A gas giant 520 light-years away has equatorial atmospheric motion approaching 33,000 kilometres per hour—around 16 times Neptune’s fastest winds. When announced in January 2025, it was the fastest planetary jet stream yet measured, although an even faster one was reported on another exoplanet just a month later.
For 28 days in early 2025, WASP-127b held one of planetary science’s most striking records. Atmospheric material around…
Rescue mission canceled for NASA’s Swift space telescope
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory has been called off, dooming the telescope to…
Brilliant fireball lights up Hungary’s night sky in spectacular pre-dawn display
A spectacular fireball streaked across the Hungarian sky early on Saturday, briefly turning night into day in parts…