Scientists discover a giant “planet factory” beyond Jupiter
About 4.6 billion years ago, the young Sun was surrounded by a massive disk of gas and dust.…
Scientists found a hidden highway to the Moon, and it could make space travel much cheaper |
Getting to the moon is expensive. Every kilogram of fuel that a spacecraft carries has to be lifted…
Mysterious dust ring beyond Jupiter formed many of our Solar System’s earliest worlds
In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies…
A strange star system may be feeding the Milky Way’s black hole one cloud at a time
In 2012, astronomers spotted a strange blob of glowing gas spiraling toward the black hole at the center…
Full Moon June 2026: When To See The ‘Strawberry Micromoon’ Rise
Topline The full Strawberry Moon will turn full on Monday, June 29, 2026. Named for the traditional strawberry…
Scientists find a place where time moves backward
Physicists in South Africa ran the math on collapsing neutron stars and landed somewhere odd. Researchers from Durban…
Watch: Green Fireball Meteor Lights Up Erupting Mayon Volcano In Stunning Footage
A rare green fireball meteor was caught on camera streaking behind the erupting Mayon Volcano in the Philippines,…
The Arecibo message — humanity’s most famous deliberate radio message to another civilization — was aimed at a star cluster about 25,000 light-years away in 1974, meaning even an immediate reply would not reach Earth until around 52,000 CE
Imagine standing under a tent on a karst hillside in Puerto Rico, on an afternoon in November 1974,…
Astronomers discover a super-Earth that may have an atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing an exoplanet and two red stars. Astronomers have recently discovered a…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Cleared For Launch After Suffering Malfunction
After suffering an embarrassing setback with the third launch of the New Glenn rocket, Blue Origin is hoping…
A million people on Mars, a billion SpaceX shares: Inside Elon Musk’s peculiar performance-based bonuses
When SpaceX released its investor prospectus last week, it revealed an unusual condition in the compensation deal for…
When a Soviet rover went silent on the Moon in 1971, scientists assumed it was gone for good — but nearly forty years later, the reflector strapped to its back answered a laser pulse from Earth as if no time had passed at all
On November 17, 1970, a Soviet unmanned mission called Luna 17 landed on the Sea of Rains, a…