Scientists locate source of mysterious radio signals after 20 year search: A vampire star and its victim
The clashing magnetic fields of a white dwarf star and its neighboring red dwarf star are the source…
Massive boom over northeastern US was a meteor explosion as powerful as 300 tons of TNT, NASA confirms
A sonic boom heard throughout the northeastern United States last week was caused by a meteor, NASA confirmed…
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The sharemarket rebounded on Wednesday, led by a rally in energy and mining stocks, as data showed Australia’s…
Be a Clump Scout and Help Reveal Secrets of Stellar Nurseries
In the mid-20th century, astronomers discovered strange “clumpy” galaxies filled with mysterious bright blobs – massive stellar nurseries…
Much of what we know about the scale of the universe rests on a method worked out by a woman employed as a human computer at Harvard for a few cents an hour
Much of what we know about the scale of the universe rests on a method worked out by…
New Zealand testing of Elon Musk’s Starshield ‘significant’, US expert says
SpaceX says its Starshield system uses “high-assurance cryptographic capability to host classified payloads and process data securely”. Photo:…
Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is Approaching Is Actually a Derelict Spacecraft
After successfully rendezvousing with near-Earth asteroid Ryugu in June 2018 and sending a sampled cache of rocks back…
Student-powered ‘moon’ rovers put to the test photo of the day for June 2, 2026
A team navigates an obstacle course on an Earth-bound rover as part of NASA’s 2026 Human Exploration Rover…
Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is Approaching Is Actually a Derelict Spacecraft
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SpaceX valued at just $780 billion by Morningstar, less than half its IPO target
SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) just got slapped with a bearish valuation ahead of its monster IPO coming up later this…
The light from the Andromeda Galaxy — the most distant object visible to the naked human eye — left its source about 2.5 million years ago, which means when you look at it on a clear night, you are seeing light that began its journey to Earth around the time the first members of our genus, Homo, were learning to use stone tools
On a clear, moonless autumn night, away from city lights, the patch of sky between the constellations Andromeda…
NZ Defence Force tests SpaceX’s Starshield system
SpaceX says its Starshield system uses “high-assurance cryptographic capability to host classified payloads and process data securely”. Photo:…