Scientists used a method from ecology to identify whether icy moons could hold conditions for life
New observatories and spacecraft missions are probing environments in our solar system that could potentially host life but…
Don’t shoot for the moon: aiming for ‘above average’ is key to success, maths suggests | Science
It is the end of an idiom for motivational speakers. Instead of shooting for the moon when pursuing…
When NASA deliberately crashed Apollo hardware into the Moon, the seismometers left behind recorded vibrations for nearly an hour — as if the Moon itself were ringing like a bell
Between 1969 and 1972, NASA deliberately steered spent pieces of Apollo hardware into the Moon. Empty lunar module…
This piercing glow is the ferocious light from a supermassive black hole 8 million times as massive as our Sun
At the centre of galaxy Messier 77 lies a cosmic behemoth glowing so intensely, it outshines its entire…
20,000 Eyes on the Universe
Think about a census. You could photograph every house in the country and produce a beautiful map, but…
A ‘lost planet’ may have given Jupiter and Uranus their moons
For years, astronomers have suspected that our solar system may have lost at least one world at some…
In 1962, a single missing character in NASA’s guidance software doomed Mariner 1 just minutes after launch — a transcription error so costly that Arthur C. Clarke famously called it “the most expensive hyphen in history”
On July 22, 1962, at Cape Canaveral, an Atlas-Agena rocket lifted off the pad carrying a small spacecraft…
Elon Musk Is Already Preparing to Evict Anthropic from SpaceX’s Data Center
Remember when Elon Musk announced that he would be leasing the available computing power at SpaceX/xAI’s massive Colossus…
Is Dark Energy Unnecessary? Mathematicians Challenge Standard Cosmological Model of Universe
Mathematicians from University College London and the University of California, Davis, have published a mathematical proof that the…
Rogue planet moons could harbor alien life for billions of years
Liquid water is widely considered one of the key ingredients for life. But new research suggests that worlds…
Scott Kelly spent a year in orbit while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth, and when he came home NASA discovered his gene expression had changed in ways that didn’t fully reverse
In March 2015, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly launched to the International Space Station for a 340-day stay, the…
When To See A Rare ‘Blue Moon’ Rise At Dusk This Weekend
Topline This weekend ends May with a rare occurrence — a second full moon in a single calendar…