Ancient stars dazzle in a celestial chandelier photo of the day for Aug. 21, 2026
The Chandelier Cluster, or globular cluster NGC 6723, as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble…
Why China’s reusable rocket breakthrough matters for the PLA’s ‘kill chain’
A pair of landmark rocket recoveries in recent weeks has brought China a step closer to mastering reusable…
This Week in Science: Highest Radiation Occupation, a Shooting Star, And More! : ScienceAlert
This Week in Science: Jellyfish attack, lab-grown mini-brains sense time, and much more! First up: An analysis of…
Propulsion Tests Clear CAS Space’s Kinastra-1 Module For Spaceflight
Propulsion Tests Clear CAS Space’s Kinastra-1 Module For Spaceflight | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Jennifer…
Landspace aims to refly recovered Zhuque-3 booster within six months
HELSINKI — Chinese commercial launch firm Landspace is targeting a reflight of its Zhuque-3 first stage in months,…
New Solar System Models Show Earth Is No Fluke
Over the last three decades, computer models of forming planetary systems have gone from being fairly crude replications…
Astronomers found a ‘mega Earth’ that shouldn’t exist. This alien world is breaking the rules of planet building
When astronomers peer into space to observe planets orbiting stars beyond our Solar System – known as exoplanets…
Earth as a single point of light: how a deep-space camera captured home
Earth as a single point of light: how a deep-space camera captured home – Futura-Sciences August 20, 2026…
Astronomers announced in January 2026 that they had found a 710-metre asteroid — nearly eight football fields across — spinning once every 1.88 minutes. A normal rubble-pile asteroid should tear itself apart at anything close to that speed, meaning 2025 MN45 must have internal strength comparable to solid rock.
Somewhere in the main asteroid belt, a body estimated to be 710 metres wide completes a full turn…
Mars’s Funky Moon Deimos was Shaped by an Impact
Both of Mars’ moons are oddballs. They’re small and lumpy like potatoes, and for a long time, astronomers…
Mars may hold enough liquid water to cover the entire planet to a depth of 1 to 2 kilometres — trapped in tiny cracks and pores in rock roughly 11.5 to 20 kilometres underground, far beyond anything we’ve ever been capable of drilling on Mars.
Mars may be hiding a tremendous amount of liquid water, but almost certainly not as a buried sea.…
Microbes from Earth may survive on the moon, scientists find
Microbes from Earth might survive the harsh surface of the moon, albeit in a state of suspended animation,…